The Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies are a collection of the genealogies of five pre-Viking kingdoms: Bernicia, Deira, Kent, East Anglia, and Mercia. Based on genealogical traditions of the 8th century, these documents are a product of the 9th century.

They are based on the report by Bede, according to whose Ecclesiastical History of the English People (completed in or before 731)

The two first commanders are said to have been Hengest and Horsa ... They were the sons of Victgilsus, whose father was Vecta, son of Woden; from whose stock the royal race of many provinces deduce their original.

By the time of the compilation of the Historia Brittonum (ca. 830),Godwulf is introduced as an ancestor of Woden's.

The full genealogy is presented in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, composed during the reign of Alfred the Great,

The genealogy of the kings of Wessex was added to this tradition at a later date, in the 10th century.

The 9th-century Anglo-Saxon genealogical tradition was perused by Snorri Sturluson, who in the 13th century wrote his Prologue to the Prose Edda.

Tom McRae (born Jeremy Thomas McRae Blackall, 19 March 1969, Chelmsford, Essex, England) is an English singer-songwriter.

The son of two Church of England vicars, McRae sang in the church choir and as a teen experimented with his mother's guitar. Initially trying to emulate his heroes, Billy Bragg, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Kate Bush, U2, he began to write his own songs and develop his own style. Age 18, he went to City of London Polytechnic achieving a degree in politics and government, and forming his first band, "The Ministers of Orgasm". Subsequently, McRae was involved in bands "Raising Cain" and "Orchid Lounge". A chance meeting with recording engineer and record producer Roger Bechirian, (Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Carlene Carter, The Undertones), led to a working relationship. Bechirian helped to shape McRae's soft-spoken sound, which later gained McRae a deal with Dave Bates's db Records, (db/BMG records). In 2000, director Scott Walker chose McRae to perform at the Meltdown Festival in the Royal Festival Hall. McRae's confessional, self-titled debut appeared in autumn 2001, during the height of the new acoustic movement and earned him comparisons to Nick Drake and Bob Dylan. Critics raved and McRae gained nominations for the Mercury Prize, a Q magazine award and the BRIT Award for Best Newcomer. By then, McRae was working with Oliver ("Oli") Kraus, cellist, and in 2003 was joined by Olli Cunningham on keyboards. McRae's second album, Just Like Blood, was released in the UK in February 2003 produced by Ben Hillier, whose credits include Elbow, Martha Wainwright and Blur. McRae then moved to California, where he wrote and recorded his next album, All Maps Welcome, which was released in May 2005.