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Nordic Israelism or Norse Israelism is the belief that Scandinavian peoples, or the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway) descend from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
Emergence
Nordic Israelism emerged as an offshoot of British Israelism in the 1850s. British Israelite author John Cox Gawler identified Denmark as the lost tribe of Dan in his 1880 work, Dan, the Pioneer of Israel.[1] J. H. Allen took a similar view in his work, Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright.[2] Edward Hine wrote that the Tribe of Dan had at one stage been in Denmark, from which he believed the name of the country was derived but that Dan's final destined resting place (as well as the other tribes of Israel) was Britain.[3][4]
Contemporary movement
Nordisk Israel is a Scandinavian organization which still promotes the Nordic variant of British Israelism.[5]
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