The Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX) on Dan

The Danish History, > Book One.

• attestation: Dan and Angul were begotten by Humble, and founded the Danish race, ruling as governors without the title of king.

  "Dan and Angul, with whom the stock of the Danes begins, were begotten of Humble, their father, and were the governors and not only the founders of our race"

• attestation: From Dan descended the pedigrees of all the Danish kings. His wife Grytha bore him two sons, Humble and Lother.

  "From Dan, however, so saith antiquity; the pedigrees of our kings have flowed in glorious series, like channels from some parent spring. Grytha, a matron most highly revered among the Teutons, bore him two sons, HUMBLE and LOTHER"

The Danish History, > Book Four.

• attestation: A later Dan, at age twelve, chose to fight the Saxons rather than pay tribute, filling the Elbe with so many ships the decks formed a bridge

  "the warriors of the Danes filled the Elbe with such a throng of vessels, that the decks of the ships lashed together made it quite easy to cross"