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The History of the Danes. Vol. 1. English Text

By Saxo Grammaticus , Peter Fisher (transl.) , Hilda Ellis Davidson (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
D. S. Brewer
Year
1979
ISBN
0847662217, 9780859910620
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (24860110 bytes)
Pages
304\308
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-07-17 02:05:48

Description

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 the historical present. 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.

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