Daner
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The Daner were an ancient North germanic tribe residing in modern day southern Sweden and on the Danish islands. They were not mentioned by Tacitus, whose famous work Germania mentions the Gothones (Geats and/or Goths?) and the Suiones (Swedes). They seem to be, however, mentioned by Jordanes, as the Dani, and also by Procopius.
The name Daner is the etymological root of Dane. Jordanes maintains that the Dani were the of the same stock as the Suetidi (Swedes, Suithiod?) and expelled the Heruli and took their lands. If Tacitus simply did not overlook the Dani, and if Jordanes's information was correct, it is possible that they first appeared, as an off-shoot of the Swedes, sometime in the 2nd or 3rd century A.D. Acording to Sven Aggesen this would have been about the time that Dan the Proud, gave his name to the Danes, but that account is most likely a myth. The forefather of the royal house became the forefather of the entire country.
The term Daner or Dene was also used by the Anglo-Saxons during the Viking age and Middle ages to denote all Northmen.
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