[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I will not claim they were danes, as the danes lived in southern Sweden at this point. For some reason we chose to take name after this tribe in stead of the Jutes and others.

I did not mean that Schleswig was inhabited by Danes because of the fact that we owned it untill 1864. The thing that is interesting is that the first danish king(Gorm the old) had his capital here around the year 900. (this is not a legendm it is the first person we know for a fact rueld what was to become the modern Denmark.) In Deeds of the Danes written in 11?? we are told of lots of kings before Gorm, but we dont know for sure. I never said that all english people was danes I was just pointing out that the word proberbly originated from northern Germany/Southern Denmark.

No americans are not danes as the daneish/norwegian/islandic people who settled there all died, just like they all did in Greenland. (allthough they lived for centuries at Greenland)

No it was not the chinese or Columbus who discoverd america, but the Scandinavians. (well after the native americans of course. . .)

I will stop now as it has nothing at all to do with why Tolkien choose the name middle-earth