Excerpt from A Memoir of the Goddards of North Wilts: Compiled From Ancient Records, Registers, and Family Papers The Northmen of Norway and Denmark, in their hundred clans, or separate kingships, though often ruled by the strongest hand, traditionally acknowledged the right divine of the descendants of Odin. To that man god their kings invariably traced their origin, as did our Saxon monarchs, whose genealogy is given in the Saxon Chronicle. This heirship from Odin, or Woden, was their claim; this genealogy their title to the crown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.