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The Romans were claiming a link to the Trojan war in their origin myths! Prominent Romans would "discover" an ancestral link to a named hero...

While the Japanese Royal Family claimed descent from a God.

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And not only Romans! According to the Icelandic historian Snorre Sturlason, Thor and Odin (the Norse gods) were actually Trojans nobles which ended up in Scandinavia, and the Danish royal family descends from them. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, the first settler in England was a descendant of Aeneas, the Trojan prince which founded Rome. And of course, the Trojan royal family ultimately descends from the Gods, and the mother of Aeneas was Venus.

In other words, the Danish royal lineage descends from both Norse and Greek gods.

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