The Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies refer collectively to the genealogies of pre-Viking Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Britain. These trace each royal family from their legendary founders, and on to the God-hero of the Anglo-Saxon peoples, Woden. In their fully elaborated forms, they continue the pedigrees back to Judeo-Christian patriarchs Noah and Adam. While historically these were accepted as a representation of authentic lineage, they are now dismissed by scholars as having mostly been invented for socio-political purposes.
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