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The Land of Denmark is named after Dan the Forefather of the Tribe of Dan. Descendants of Dan settled in Denmark as shown by Biblical and Secular sources. Contents: 1. Danes from Dan of Israel. 2. Dan in Scandinavia According to the Bible. 3. Dan symbolized by a lion and a serpent. 4. Places and Peoples Named "after Dan their father." 5. Sea-goers.
The Tribe of Dan was represented by a snake or by a lion. Other accepted symbols of Dan were a pair of scales, an eagle, and a dragon. Many members of Dan settled in Denmark, in Ireland, in Wales, England, and the U.S.A. where 40-50 million people have Irish ancestry.
The antiquarian Henry Spelman in 1620 had made a similar claim that the Danes were the Israelite Tribe of Dan, based on the apparent similarity in name. [15] Additionally, proponents of Nordic and British Israelism have made similar claims about descent from the tribe of Dan.
The Danes claim descend from someone called "Dan the Great." An old Danish source "Chronicon Holsatiae vetus," quoted in "Accessiones historicae" by Gottfried Leibniz (1698), states the Danes were of the Tribe of Dan and the Jutes (who left Jutland en masse and moved to England) from Judah.
The Danes are named after the Israelite Tribe of Dan. A significant proportion of the Danish population may descend from Israelites. Whether or not many of them look like Jews is a matter of opinion.
THE TRIBE OF DAN — few other tribes figure as prominently in the annals of myth and adventure as this one. It has been pointed out by some that the Danes might be the descendants of these the colonizers and traders of the ancient world. Are they really? What is the evidence on this issue?
The tribe of Dan is, as the only tribe of Israel, not among the sealed 144,000 male Israelites(Rev. 7:4-8) that are going to reign with the Lamb and God. Revelation does simply not state why the tribe of Dan is not among the 144,000.
