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* Saxo Grammaticus, Danish historian ( d. 1220 )
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He was also interested in history and culture, and commissioned Saxo Grammaticus to write Gesta Danorum, a comprehensive chronicle of the history of the Danes.
Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.
Tales concerning the Skjöldungs, possibly originating as early as the 6th century, were later used as a narrative basis in such texts as Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus and Hrólfs saga kraka.
In the 12th century, Danish accounts by Saxo Grammaticus and other Danish Latin chroniclers recorded a euhemerized account of his story.
Saxo Grammaticus wrote in his Gesta Danorum another story about Frigg:
Jacob Grimm noted that if, as Adam of Bremen states, Fosite's sacred island was Heligoland, that would make him an ideal candidate for a deity known to both Frisians and Scandinavians, but that it is surprising he is never mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus.
Gesta Danorum (" Deeds of the Danes ") is a patriotic work of Danish history, by the 12th century author Saxo Grammaticus (" Saxo the Literate ", literally " the Grammarian ").
De danske Kongers og Heltes Historie, skrevet i pyntelig Stil for over 300 Aar siden af Saxo Grammaticus, en Sjællandsfar og Provst ved Kirken i Roskilde, og nu for første Gang oplyst ved et Register og omhyggeligt trykt.
Histories of the Kings and heroes of the Danes, composed in elegant style by Saxo Grammaticus, a Sjællander and also provost of the church of Roskilde, over three hundred years ago, and now for the first time illustrated and printed correctly in a learned compilation.
* N. F. S. Grundtvig, published 1818-1822, title: Danmarks Krønike af Saxo Grammaticus
* Frederik Winkel Horn, published 1898, title: Saxo Grammaticus: Danmarks Krønike
* Oliver Elton, published 1894, title: The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus
* Peter Fisher and Hilda Ellis Davidson, published 1979-1980, title: Saxo Grammaticus: The History of the Danes, Books I-IX
* Eric Christiansen, published 1980-1981, title: Saxo Grammaticus: Danorum regum heroumque historia, books X-XVI
* William F. Hansen, published 1983, title: Saxo Grammaticus and the life of Hamlet
* Hermann Jantzen, published 1900, title: Saxo Grammaticus.
* Hilda Ellis Davidson, Peter Fisher ( trans ), Saxo Grammaticus: The History of the Danes, Books I-IX: I. English Text ; II.
* Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, Books I-IX, translated to English by Oliver Elton 1905.
* Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, from the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Danish and Latin.
* Frederik Winkel Horn, Saxo Grammaticus: Danmarks Krønike, Chr.
Shakespeare based Hamlet on the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum as subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest.
A facsimile of Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus, which contains the legend of Amleth
Many of the earlier legendary elements are interwoven in the 13th-century Vita Amlethi (" The Life of Amleth ") by Saxo Grammaticus, part of Gesta Danorum.
Saxo Grammaticus & the Life of Hamlet.
Saxo and Danish
The Danish flag from the front page of Christiern Pedersen ’ s version of Saxo ’ s Gesta Danorum, 1514.
In 1510-1512, Christiern Pedersen, a Danish translator working in Paris, searched Denmark high and low for an existing copy of Saxo ’ s works, which by that time was nearly all but lost.
The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus recorded an alternative version of this myth in his Gesta Danorum.
He has been identified with Uffo ( also Uffe, Uffi of Jutland ), a legendary Danish king in the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus.
The Old English poem Widsith ( 9th century ) refers briefly to his victorious single combat, a story which is related at length by the 12th-century Danish historians Saxo and Svend Aggesen.
It is unknown how the word Lapp came into the Norse language, but it may have been introduced by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus to distinguish between Fish-Fennians ( coastal tribes ) and Lap-Fennians ( forest tribes ), supporting the second etymology.
* Saxo Grammaticus, Danish historian ( b. 1150 )
Saxo Grammaticus ( c. 1150 – 1220 ) also known as Saxo cognomine Longus was a Danish historian, thought to have been a secular clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, foremost advisor to Valdemar I of Denmark.
Sven Aggesen, a Danish nobleman and author of a slightly earlier history of Denmark than Saxo's, describes his contemporary, Saxo, as his contubernalis meaning tent-comrade.
* Elton, Oliver ( 1905 ) The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus.
The Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus held Odin himself to have resided in Gamla Uppsala far back in the mists of time:
Fróði (; ; Middle High German: Vruote ) is the name of a number of legendary Danish kings in various texts including Beowulf, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda and his Ynglinga saga, Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum, and the Grottasöngr.
Though Icelandic sources make this Fróði a very early Danish king, in Gesta Danorum ( Book 5 ), Saxo puts him late in his series of rulers, though including the chronological equation with Augustus and mentioning the birth of Christ.
The third, and arguably the most important record, comes from the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, who in his Gesta Danorum described the war fought in 1168 by the Danish king Valdemar I against the Wends of Rügen, the conquest of their city at cape Arkona and the destruction of the grand temple of Svantevit that stood there.
The 12th c. Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus was not familiar with the character and Ogier has not been connected to any historic event in Denmark.
Saxo and historian
These events are recorded in the Annales regni Francorum and the Vita Karoli Magni, both works of Charlemagne's court historian, Einhard, and in the separate Reichsannalen called the Annales Mettenses and the Annales Maximiniani, as well as the work of the so-called " Poeta Saxo ".
In his Gesta Danorum ( c. 1200 ), the historian Saxo Grammaticus refers to the power music had over King Erik the Kind-Hearted.
The later Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus made use of and expanded Adam of Bremen's account in his Gesta Danorum ( ca.
According to the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, he got the nickname because he was forced to flee from an attack in his bare feet.
* Saxo Grammaticus ( c. 1150 – 1220 ), Danish historian
* Saxo Grammaticus ( circa 1150-1220 ), Danish medieval historian
The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus would repeat this information, writing that Eric the Victorious ' widow Syritha had married Sweyn Forkbeard after having spurned Olaf Trygvasson.
The book uses " Lap " mainly to notice that Samis are still pagan and it is concluded that Lap is a word introduced by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus ( ca.
Ski warfare, the use of ski-equipped troops in war, is first recorded by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus in the 13th century.
According to the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, Sigurd Ring belonged to the Ynglings and he was the son of Ingjald.
Saxo Grammaticus reports that this Ursius / Björn was the son of a bear and a fair Swedish maiden, but later genealogical tradition ( presumably first suggested by the Danish historian Peter Frederik Suhm ) would make Thorgil son of the viking Styrbjörn the Strong, who in turn is depicted as son of Olaf Björnsson, king of Sweden.
In 1216 AD, the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus writes in ' Gesta Danorum ' about Finnish, Kven and Scandinavian royal families.
* The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus on Orvar-Odd
* The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus on Hjalmar
His most important and acclaimed work is a criticism regarding the interpretation and the ahistoricism of the Gesta Danorum by the 12th century Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus.
An anecdote tells that when a Danish historian was counter-criticizing parts of Weibull's treatise on Saxo Grammaticus in a doctoral dissertation ( believing he was dead since this was after his 100th birthday ) Weibull appeared on the public disputation angrily defending his work.
* The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus on Angantyr
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