Question: are danes from the tribe of dan?
Answer: 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. ... Olof Rudbeck the Younger in the 18th century also attempted to prove that the Nordic languages sprung from Hebrew.