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Saxo Grammaticus

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Saxo Grammaticus , c.1150–c.1220, the first important Danish historian. He was in the service of Absalon , archbishop of Lund, at whose suggestion Saxo wrote the Gesta Danorum (or Historia Danica ). The first nine books, translated (1893, repr. 1967) Danish History, are mostly composed of oral tradition and legends concerning the early Danes, including the story of Hamlet. The remaining seven books, dealing more with contemporary events, are an extremely valuable source for Danish history. The cognomen grammaticus [learned] was probably bestowed on Saxo after his death.

Bibliography: See R. G. Latham, Two Dissertations on the Hamlet of Saxo Grammaticus and Shakespear (1872, repr. 1973).

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Saxo Grammaticus a 13th century Danish historian, author of the Gesta Danorum, a partly mythical Latin history of the Danes (which contains the Hamlet story).

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Saxo Grammaticus, a 13th-cent. Danish historian, author of the Gesta Danorum, a partly mythical Latin history of the Danes (which contains the Hamlet story).

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