Thanks, Regnar, for your posts on genealogies. It is indeed fascinating how gods and mythological people came to be included in the genealogies of kings. It may seem strange to us that Woden and Adam be cited as ancestors in the royal genealogies. But it was less strange to the people living in the more religious age that these lists were constructed. Almost all religions and mythologies - including those of today - have some interaction between 'real' people and gods. In some tales, the gods are more distant from the world than others. Nonetheless, when I first read Asser's Life of King Alfred, I laughed at the genealogy that Asser gives for the West Saxon kings. It goes back to Woden (although it appears from your list that this refers to a king and not necessarily the god), and past him (several generations later) to Geat "whom the pagans worshipped as a god for a time."! And it continues still further, past Noah and eventually to Adam. I wonder how much these genealogies were actually believed.