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Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1150 – c. 1220), also known as Saxo cognomine Longus, was a Danish historian, theologian and author. He is thought to have been a clerk or secretary to Absalon , Archbishop of Lund , the main advisor to Valdemar I of Denmark .
Gesta Danorum (Angers Fragment), page 1, front. 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"). [1] It is the most ambitious literary undertaking of medieval Denmark and is an essential source for the nation's early history ...
The chief authority for the legend of Amleth is Saxo Grammaticus, who devotes to it parts of the third and fourth books of his Gesta Danorum, completed at the beginning of the 13th century. [1] Saxo's version is supplemented by Latin and vernacular compilations from a much later date.
He received the appellation Grammaticus, the Latin word for a teacher of letters, in the Compendium Saxonis of Chronica Jutensis, around 1342, to express delight in his use of words. With the printed press publication of Christiern Pedersen's version of the Gesta Danorum, the term Grammaticus has stuck to Saxo as being part of his name.
Original Saxo, Angers Fragment, page 1, front. The Angers Fragment (Angersfragmentet) are four parchment pages dating from the 12th-century. They are one of the four fragments remaining of the original Gesta Danorum written by Saxo Grammaticus. This is the only fragment attested to be of Saxo's own handwriting.
Gram was one of the earliest legendary Danish kings according to Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum.His history is given in more detail than those of his predecessors. Georges Dumézil argued that Gram was partially modelled on the god Thor, in particular his defeat of Hrungnir and subsequent encounter with Gróa.
[1] Absalon first appears in Saxo Grammaticus's contemporary chronicle Gesta Danorum at the end of the civil war, in the brokering of the peace agreement between Sweyn III and Valdemar at St. Alban's Priory in Odense. [1] He was a guest at the subsequent Roskilde banquet given in 1157 by Sweyn for his rivals Canute V and Valdemar.
Lagertha's tale is recorded in passages in the ninth book of the Gesta Danorum, a twelfth-century work of Danish history by the Christian historian Saxo Grammaticus. [2] According to the Gesta (¶ 9.4.1–9.4.11), Lagertha's career as a warrior began when Frø , king of Sweden, invaded Norway and killed the Norwegian king Siward.