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Saxo, drawn by the Norwegian illustrator Louis Moe. 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 ...
Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1150 – 1220) was a Danish medieval historian of whose life practically nothing is known. The sixteen books of Danish history of this time, known as the Gesta Danorum , are attributed to him, and also contribute our principal evidence of his own existence.
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.
In Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum a Latin translation of the poem is found but it probably does not closely follow the original. The following example may illustrate the difference between the original terse Old Norse and Saxo's elaborate translation.
Dan I was the progenitor of the Danish royal house according to Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum. He supposedly held the lordship of Denmark along with his brother Angul , the father of the Angles in Angeln , which later formed the Anglo-Saxons in England.