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.

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.

He has been identified with Uffo ( also Uffe, Uffi of Jutland ), a legendary Danish king in the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus.

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.

There is also a Saxo to be found on a list of clergy at Lund, where there was a Sven recorded as Archdeacon.

Olrik applied his methods also on the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus, attempting to reconstruct the sources used by Saxo.

There seems to be some foreshadowing in Beowulf that Hroðulf will attempt to usurp the throne from Hroðgar's sons Hreðric and Hroðmund, a deed that also seems to be referred to in Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum ( Book 2 ), where we find: "... our king, who laid low Rorik, the son of Bok the covetous, and wrapped the coward in death.

It also appears in part in book five of Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum and an account only the deaths of Angantýr and his eleven brothers appears in Arrow-Odd's saga.

In early 1996 the Peugeot 106 also formed the basis for the near identical looks and size Citroën Saxo, and at this time the 106 received a facelift which saw all engines get fuel injection and equipment levels raised.

* Conrad of Saxony, also called Conradus Saxo

The myth related in the poem is also preserved in prose form by Snorri Sturluson in the Skáldskaparmál and a looser analogue is found in Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum.

Parts of his story are also retold in Eyrbyggja saga, Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum ( book 10 ), Knýtlinga saga and Hervarar saga.

According to the Chronicon Lethrense and Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum ( Book 2 ), Halfdan had two brothers named Ro and Skat who also sought the throne.

Saxo also records an account of Lathgertha who fought in battle for Ragnar Lodbrok and saved him from defeat through personally leading a flanking attack.

Heremod may also be identical to Lother ( Latin Lotherus ) in Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum ( Book 1 ) or the same history may have been applied to two originally separate figures.

Moreover, they are also very important for the study of Scandinavian and Germanic heroic legends together with Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum which was based on the same heroic poetry and traditions.

It is not known if Saxo also used this name for his original work.

This is the incident from the 1120s recorded by Saxo Grammaticus and also in an appendix to the Västgöta law.

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Saxo claims Thyra was the daughter of English king Æthelred of Wessex who also had a son called Æthelstan.

An episode in the Latin work Gesta Danorum, written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus, is generally considered to refer to Hel, and Hel may appear on various Migration Period bracteates.

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 may refer to:

The late and legend-influenced Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus names a nobleman Ennignup serving as guardian for a young king Knut at some time prior to king Gorm the Old and it has been suggested he may be a confused representation of Gnupa.

Scholars have assumed that Saxo used Proserpina as a goddess equivalent to the Norse Hel.

Parallels have been pointed out between Njörðr and the figure of Hadingus, attested in book I of Saxo Grammaticus ' 13th century work Gesta Danorum.

In the narrative of Saxo, Uffi is said to have been dumb or silent during his early years.

This gives evidence that Saxo and Sven might have soldiered in the Hird or royal guard since Sven used the word contubernium in reference to them.

Both arguments, for a secular or religious Saxo, would confirm that he was well educated, as clergy he would have received training in Latin and sons of great men were often sent to Paris.

The Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus held Odin himself to have resided in Gamla Uppsala far back in the mists of time:

Various attempts have been made to harmonize these kings from the Frankish annals with the legendary kings found in the accounts of traditional historians such as Saxo Grammaticus and the sagas.

Some archeological excavations on the cape of Arkona on Rügen island have uncovered vestiges of a great temple and a city, identified with those described by Saxo.

However, the burial mound itself is from the Bronze Age, erected 1, 700 years before the time that Hamlet was supposed to have lived according to Saxo.

Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum presents three different Danish monarchs named Dan, either splitting up a single monarch into many, or properly keeping separate what others have confused.

In Gesta Danorum, which was written to glorify the past of the Danish nation, Helgi Saxo appears to have mixed Helgi Hundingbane with the Danish king Halga, as he claims that Helgi killed a Swedish king named Hunding.

Pedersen began to send letters to friends all over Denmark, trying to locate the original Saxo work, but they either did not have it or did not want to release it to him.

In Gesta Danorum 7: IX. 2-X. 1, Saxo Grammaticus tells an essentially identical saga, but all the names have been changed and Hildebrand is called Hildiger.

The upshot is that scholars cannot assert with any confidence how much material Shakespeare took from the Ur-Hamlet ( if it even existed ), how much from Belleforest or Saxo, and how much from other contemporary sources ( such as Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy ).

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But Saxo passes over him in a few lines as a warlike king who scorned his subjects and wasted his wealth, much degenerated from his ancestors.

As to this second Halfdan, Saxo has much to say about him, including his slaying of Siward king of Sweden and his battles against Erik son of his uncle Fróði by Signe, this Erik now the rightful king of Sweden.

Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum inserts the reign of Snow much later in Danish history, telling of him in book VIII among kings who reigned after the death of Harald War-tooth.

According to Saxo this famine and the departure of many Danes explained why in his own day much of the Danish land was overrun with forests in which stone piles alone showed that the land had once been cultivated fields.

Saxo wrote that Thyra was mainly responsible for building the Dannevirke on the southern border, but archeology has proven it much older.