It seems that most European royalties all descend from Finland...
Kvenland was situated in north western Finland.
Fornjotnr was a king in Kvaenland, (Queanland), which was north of the Gulf of Bothnia in present-day Finland, near the present Finnish-Swedish border. The early Danish settlers of Norway were in such awe of the size of the Finno-Ugrian people with whom they came into contact that they did not consider that they were men.
These Jotuns, as they were called, were considered to be giants, and/or semi-gods by the Danes, and the Danes reasoned that the legendary Jotun King Fornjotnr, must have been the same individual as the Ymir of Danish mythology, and that his gigantic descendants must have been the frost giants.
Anciently, the Finno-Ugrian people of this area were known as the Kvaenir, and are so mentioned in Egil's saga. These people were referred to as the Kainu and the Cvena. They were the Cwenas of Othere (Ottar), and were known as such by King Alfred. Their ancestors had come into Finland from the Northeast and were of Komsa culture.
They spent some period of time in the Ob River Valley, and some of these Finno-Ugrians settled on the Yenesei. Anciently, they were known as the gigantic Ugrians or Yugorians. They were the Jotuns and frost giants of Norse mythology and the Gigantes of Titans of Roman and Greek mythology.
One group went into the Black Forest area of Germany, and was to furnish the inspiration for the "Giant" stories of that area. Adam of Bremen and Tacitus knew these people and the former said that the gigantic Finns of this time were superior in strength and swiftness to the wild animals of the forest.
The Danes believed that these giants had their original home in Jotunheim, or Utgard, outside of the limits of the Earth and Sea, and that they were descended from an earlier and wilder race of men.
"There were giants in the earth in those days": (Genesis 6 Paragraph 4).
It was a mixing of these Komsa culture Finno-Ugrians with the Tosna culture Danes, who (it is estimated) entered and settled south Norway about 600 B.C., which ultimately formed the Norwegian race.
They met, fought, and gradually mingled in the Trondheim Fjord area of Norway.
They became the Halfdanes, and the name, Halfdan, was common throughout Norway.
Norse mythology tells of the struggles and conflicts between these two peoples.
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