Scéaf, or King Sheave to use Tolkien’s rendering of his name (The Lost Road and Other Writings), was an ancient culture hero to the Germanic peoples. He was washed ashore as a child in a boat, and later accepted as king. Though not explicitly stated, that this event occurred as a result of a great flood fits our reconstructed chronology perfectly. If the flood occurred in 2194 BC, the average length of generation before and after of this divide is almost exactly the same – 130 and 128 years, respectively. This also happens to be very close to that of the rulers of Númenor (131 years), who, in common with the descendants of Elessar and Arwen, had a strong Elven genetic component. Tolkien tells us that King Sheave’s seven sons became the ancestors of the Danes, Goths, Swedes, Northmen, Franks, Frisians, Swordmen, Saxons, Swabes, English and Langobards. According to early texts such as Widsith and Æthelweard’s 10th century Chronicon, Scéaf (Sheave) was washed ashore on an island named Scani, or Scandza (i.e. Scania, or Southern Sweden – Skênland in the Oera Linda Book), though according to William of Malmesbury’s 12th century Gesta regum Anglorum he reigned from Schleswig in North Germany. According to the genealogies, Scéaf was the ancestor of Woden, but there seems to be some confusion here because the Oera Linda Book gives the name Wodin to an individual who can only be Scéaf himself – so perhaps the name Woden or Wodin came to be applied to all members of the dynasty. Scéaf’s father is given in the Prose Edda as Magi, whereas the Oera Linda Book states that the Mâgy, ruler of the Finns, became the father-in-law of Wodin. Furthermore the presumed dates of Scéaf’s life and reign exactly parallel those of Wodin in the Oera Linda Book. According to the latter, by 2013 BC he was living at Lumka-mâkja in what is now the Netherlands. In that year he led an army to save Skênland (Southern Sweden) from the invading Finns, but took it over himself as its king, in alliance with the Mâgy, whose daughter he married. Wodin disappeared seven years later.