Nordic Israelism

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 were the Jews.

[2] In the 18th century the Swedish historian Olof von Dalin believed that the ancient Finns (alongside Lapps and Estonians) who sprung from the Neuri descended ultimately from the lost tribes of Israel: "...the Neuri seem to be remnants of the Ten Tribes of Israel which Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, brought as captives out of Canaan... [When one realises that] the language of the ancient Finns, Lapps and Estonians is similar to the Hebrew and even that this people in ancient times reckoned their year's beginning from the first of March, and Saturday as their Sabbath, then one sees that the Neuri in all probability had this origin.

In his Atlantica Orientalis (1751) he theorised that the Gods of Norse mythology were deified ancestors from the Levant, who he connected to Israel.

[9][10] British Israelites who did not subscribe to this more particularist view initially attacked Hine's identifications in The Standard of Israel magazine quarterly of the "Anglo-Israel Association".

The renowned engineer Albert Hiorth was a prominent Nordic Israelism proponent and author of the early 20th century.

Proponents of Nordic Israelism follow John Cox Gawler's identification of the Tribe of Dan with Denmark.