Tribe of Dan
A 15th-century Latin chronicle, "Chronicon Holsatiae vetus", found in Gottfried Leibniz's "Accessiones historicae" (1698), states the Danes were of the Tribe of Dan, while the Jutes the Jews. Earlier the antiquarian Henry Spelman in 1620 had previously claimed that the Danes were the Israelite Tribe of Dan, based on the apparent similarity in name. In the 18th century the Swedish historian Olof von Dalin believed that the ancient Finns (alongside Lapps and Estonians) who sprung from the Neuri descended ultimately from the lost tribes of Israel: