well ... the name Ylving have no basis in the Danish tradition, but only for some reason in the swedish, so ... more correct would be "Of Eskildsen", although as a martonym thats somewhat bland, or make Svend II's parents marriage Martilinial (reasonable) and make it a simple continuation of "knytling", or renaming the whole dynasty to "Of Gorm" (although then we land in patronym again) or "of Jelling" which was the original capital of Gorm the Old which is the oldest king that there is literature about from the same time (well ... his son writing about him on the Jelling stones)
Personally i'd prefer using "Knytling" or if need be "Of Jelling"
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That said, theres amble reason for the swedish historicans (at least the medivals) to use 'Ulfinger' (later corrupted to 'Ylfings') since Ulf Jarl (Thorgilsson) is said to be son of Thorgil Styrbjörnson, son of Styrbjörn Starke, son of the Swedish Mythical King Olof (II) Björnsson hence that the kings of their traditional rivals (Denmark) is in 'truth' Swedes, stealing a lot of the national honor, from the regions strongest kingdom
Personally i'd prefer using "Knytling" or if need be "Of Jelling"
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That said, theres amble reason for the swedish historicans (at least the medivals) to use 'Ulfinger' (later corrupted to 'Ylfings') since Ulf Jarl (Thorgilsson) is said to be son of Thorgil Styrbjörnson, son of Styrbjörn Starke, son of the Swedish Mythical King Olof (II) Björnsson hence that the kings of their traditional rivals (Denmark) is in 'truth' Swedes, stealing a lot of the national honor, from the regions strongest kingdom
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