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Skancke is a Norwegian family name with some slightly different spellings as Skanke Schanke Schanche and others. It is not proved whether all persons with those names descend from the same persons in the Middle Ages. One famous Skancke family is from the 17th Century situated in the old mining town of Røros in Mid-Norway. Some alleged medieval ancestors of the Skancke families had coats of arms with one armoured leg in the shield and one armoured leg in the crest.
