Angul (king)

Angul ("Angull") was, according to Gesta Danorum, the ancestor of the Angles in Denmark.

His father was king Humbli, probably the same as Heimdall, one of Woden's twelve diar in Sigtuna and Gamla Uppsala in Sweden.

Already in Jordanes' Getica (written in the 6th century), the Danes, of the same tribe as the Swedes, are said to have emigrated from Sweden to Denmark in ancient times.

Gesta Danorum (13th century) continues to say that Angul had his name given to the region he governed (Angeln), and that his descendents later conquered Great Britain, and substituted the new title of their own land for the island's original name.

Angul had a brother named Dan who in like manner became the ancestor and ruler of the Danes.

There are other Nordic traditions that correspond to this. While Angul is not mentioned here, his brother Dan is.

In the Chronicle of Leire (12th century), there is a King Ypper of Uppsala, whose sons were Dan, Nori, and Östen. Dan afterwards ruled Denmark, Nori afterwards ruled Norway, and Östen afterwards ruled the Swedes.

According to Arngrim Jonsson's Latin epitome of the lost Skjöldungasaga made in 1597, Rigus (or Rig, who is the same as Heimdall) had a son called Dan or Danum, whose subjects were called Danes.

The Eddic poem Rígsþula tells how the god Rígr (said to be Heimdall), fathered a son named Ríg-Jarl. Ríg-Jarl had eleven sons, the youngest of whom bore the name Konr the Young. One day, as he was hunting and snaring birds, a crow spoke to him and suggested he would gain more by going after men, and praised the wealth of "Dan and Danp," presumably his older half-brothers.

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