The History of the Danes: Commentary
Author: Saxo (Grammaticus)
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 232
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Author: Saxo (Grammaticus)
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 232
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Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2016-02-14
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1329902831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGesta Danorum - Deeds of the Danes In the early years of the thirteenth century the Danish writer Saxo Grammaticus provided his people with a History of the Danes, an account of their glorious past from the legendary kings and heroes of Denmark to king Gorm. It is one of the major sources for the heroic and mythological traditions of northern Europe, though the complex Latin style and the wide range of material brought together from different sources have limited its use.
Author: Saxo (Grammaticus)
Publisher: Oxford Medieval Texts
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 874
ISBN-13: 0198205236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSaxo 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.
Author: Karsten Friis-Jensen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9788788073324
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Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books
Published: 2006-12-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781598185607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSaxo Grammaticus, who's believed to have lived from 1150 until 1220 (though the dates are uncertain), wrote a sixteen-volume history of the Denmark that he lived in. Volumes X through XVI (oddly -- or perhaps not so oddly -- written first) are a conventional history of Saxo's day and age. But the first the volumes are the stuff of myth and legend, delightful tales of mythic Norse persons and circumstances. This book is comprised of those mythic volumes, and it's special stuff indeed.
Author: Oliver 1861-1945 Elton
Publisher:
Published: 2016-08-26
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 9781362351283
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Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published:
Total Pages: 73
ISBN-13: 1613107005
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 356
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Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 234
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-06-13
Total Pages: 725
ISBN-13: 9004696911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEver since the publication of Saxo Grammaticus’ Gesta Danorum at the beginning of the thirteenth century, scholars and laymen have grappled with the complex and marvellous chronicle. As much specialized scholarship has been published in Danish, this companion breaks new ground by giving a comprehensive and up-to-date tour of the work for a global audience. Attention is given to the unity of Saxo’s massive chronicle, whether he is dealing with a legendary pagan past or events from his own time. Saxo’s world and views are explored in ways that shed new light on all of northern Europe. Contributors are Bjørn Bandlien, Karsten Friis-Jensen, Michael H. Gelting, Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm, Lars Hermanson, Lars Kjær, Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen, Annette Lassen, Anders Leegaard Knudsen, Lars Boje Mortensen, Mia Münster-Swendsen, Erik Niblaeus, Roland Scheel, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Kurt Villads Jensen, and Helle Vogt.