Yngling

Also known as Ynglingar, Scylfing

right|250px|thumb|The Yngling Ingjald slaying his kinsmen. The Ynglings were a dynasty of kings, first in Sweden and later in Norway, primarily attested through the poem Ynglingatal. The dynasty also appears as Scylfings (, ) in Beowulf. When Beowulf and Ynglingatal were composed sometime in the eighth to tenth centuries, their respective authors (scops and skalds) expected their audience to have a great deal of background information about these kings, which is shown in the allusiveness of the references.

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Names
From Sweden to Norway
Remaining in Sweden
The line
The family tree
The name Scylfing
''Beowulf''
In Norse tradition
From the {{lang|non|Hyndluljóð}}
From the {{lang|non|Skáldskaparmál}}
From the {{lang|non|Ættartǫlur}}
See also
References

According to sources such as Ynglingatal and Íslendingabók, the Fairhair dynasty in Oppland, Norway was in fact a branch of the Ynglings (here Yngling is explicitly used as the name of the dynasty). Saxo Grammaticus held that the Ynglings also included Eric the Victorious, who is usually the first king in modern regnal lists, and his descendants. However, this does not tally with Icelandic sources.