Skanke Family Association
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Skanke is a group of today Norwegian families, and are organized through a family association ("The Skanke Association").
The association claims its members descent from certain late medieval Norwegian low-nobility families which used leg or shanks as figure of their escutcheons.
Moreover, deriving from resemblance between a leg and a triskelion, they claim ancestry from medieval rulers of the Isle of Man and Hebrides, alleging thus to be of ancient noble ancestry, . They see themselves as the direct or indirect ancestors of the kings of Norway, Limerick, Dublin, Northumberland and Ulster.
The name stems from skank, the Norwegian version of the word shank, or leg, and refers to the family's coat of arms.
The Skanke family's coat of arms, according to the Family Association, is a simplified version of the coat of arms of the last recognized Norse King of Mann, Magnus III. Magnus' coat of arms still occupy the central position in the Isle of Man's triskelion flag and is the island's main national symbol.
As its first ancestors the family claims the Norse king Siggtrygg Gale (also called Siggtrygg Enöye; eng.: Siggtrygg One Eye) of Dublin and Northumberland (d. ca. 927) as well as king Harald Fairhair, the first king of a united Norway (d. ca. 945).
[edit] References
- G.V.C Young O.B.E. Fra Skanke-slektens historie, 1986
- G.V.C. Young O.B.E. A Brief History of the Isle of Man, 2001
- The three legs go to Scandinavia a monograph on the Manx royal family and their Scandinavian descendants, Peel: Mansk-Svenska Pub.Co.17 North View, 1981
- Skanke semi-annual family magazine (Skanke-nytt) Nr. 1-2004
- Skanke semi-annual family magazine (Skanke-nytt) Nr. 1-2005
