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Saxo was probably a canon of Lund Cathedral, at that period a Danish cathedral, and lived at the end of the twelfth century. He was in the service of Archbishop Absalon, who encouraged him to write a history of his own country from the beginnings up to his own time, with a strong Christian bias. Starting with the myths and heroic tales of primitive Scandinavia, he devoted the first nine of his sixteen books to legendary material before dealing with the first kings of the Viking age and finished in 1285, after relating the earlier exploits of King Cnut Valdemarsson. The activities of the Danish kings were intimately bound up with the monarchies of Norway and Sweden; Cnut the Great, one of Saxo's heroes, whose empire stretched as far as Britain and Iceland, was ruler of both these countries. In the last books Saxo took particular concern to describe the campaigns of Valdemar the Great and his warrior archbishop, Absalon, against the Wends of North Germany.The work is a prosimetrum, that is, in six of the first nine books he inserts poems, which are intended to parallel specimens of old Danish heroic poetry in Latin metres. Saxo's Latin prose style is often complex, based as it is on models like Valerius Maximus and Martianus Capella, but he is a lively and compelling story-teller, often displaying a rather sly sense of humour, and an interest in the supernatural. He is the first author to give a full account of Hamlet, whose adventures he relates at some length, the elements of which in a great many respects correspond surprisingly closely with the characters and incidents of Shakespeare's play.Volume I of Saxo Grammaticus contains an introduction from the editor, and the first ten books of Saxo's work. Historisk Tidsskrift / Copyright by Den danske ... Geografi. Ove Jrgensen: Alfred den Store. Danmarks geografi. En undersgelse af fire afsnit i Den gamle engelske Orosius. (Nowele Supplement volume I). Germanic Mythology: Texts Translations Scholarship Resources for Researchers into Germanic Mythology Norse Mythology and Northern European Folklore Hamlet - Wikipedia Plot Act I. The protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark son of the recently deceased King Hamlet and nephew of King Claudius his father's brother and ... Classensgade Antikvariat - Drikke/Drinks General Marbots erindringer fra Napoleonstiden -i uddrag. Forlag: Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag Udgivet: 1910. Antal sider: 319 Indbinding: Lidt slidt halvlder. Vikings - Wikipedia The period from the earliest recorded raids in the 790s until the Norman conquest of England in 1066 is commonly known as the Viking Age of Scandinavian history ...
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