They are mentioned among the nations of the Mediterranean allied against Rameses III.

The Dardaneans were inhabitants of the Trojan provinces of Dardanin, and whose name was used for the Trojans generally.] lives in my tent, but I for months have slept at the door of your father's, and I have not once entered my own since she has been there.
Now sit down by me, and let me tell you how it all happened.

We had pitched the camp before Kadesh, and there was very little for me to do, as Rameses was still laid up with his wound, so I often passed my time in hunting on the shores of the lake.

One day I went as usual, armed only with my bow and arrow, and, accompanied by my grey-hounds, heedlessly followed a hare; a troop of Danaids fell upon me, bound me with cords, and led me into their camp.
[Grey-hounds, trained to hunt hares, are represented in the most ancient tombs, for instance, the Mastaba at Meydum, belonging to the time of Snefru (four centuries B.C.).] There I was led before the judges as a spy, and they had actually condemned me, and the rope was round my neck, when their king came up, saw me, and subjected me to a fresh examination.

I told him the facts at full length--how I had fallen into the hands of his people while following up my game, and not as an enemy, and he heard me favorably, and granted me not only life but freedom.