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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. Here Hilda Ellis Davidson, a specialist in Scandinavian mythology, together with the translator Peter Fisher, provides a full English edition; each of the first nine books is preceded by an introductory summary, and a detailed commentary follows on the folklore and life and customs of twelfth-century Denmark - including the sources of Hamlet, of which Saxo gives the earliest known account.

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title:The History of the Danes, Books I-IX
author:Saxo.; Davidson, Hilda Roderick Ellis.
publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
isbn10 | asin:0859915026
print isbn13:9780859915021
ebook isbn13:9780585224787
language:English
subjectDenmark--History--To 1241, Folklore--Scandinavia, Civilization, Medieval.
publication date:1998
lcc:DL147.S2413 1998eb
ddc:948.9/01
subject:Denmark--History--To 1241, Folklore--Scandinavia, Civilization, Medieval.
Page iii
Saxo Grammaticus
The History of the Danes
Books I-IX
Edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson
Translated by Peter Fisher
D. S. BREWER
Page iv
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Translation Peter Fisher 1979
Translator's notes Peter Fisher 1980
Editoral matter Hilda Ellis Davidson 1979, 1980
All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner
First published in two volumes 1979 and 1980
D. S. Brewer, Cambridge
Reprinted in one volume 1996
Reprinted in paperback 1998, 1999
ISBN 0 85991 509 3 hardback
ISBN 085991 502 6 paperback
D. S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA website: www.boydell.co.uk
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Saxo, Grammaticus, d. ca. 1204.
[Gesta Danorum. Liber 1-9. English]
The history of the Danes, books I-IX / Saxo Grammaticus:
edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson; translated by Peter Fisher.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-85991-502-6 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Denmark - History - To 1241. 2. Folklore - Scandinavia.
3. Civilization, Medieval. I. Davidson, Hilda Roderick Ellis.
II. Title.
DL 147.S2413 1998
948.9'01 - dc21 97-51545
This publication is printed on acid-free paper
Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
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CONTENTS
Volume I
English Text
Preface
1
Book One
11
Book Two
37
Book Three
65
Book Four
91
Book Five
113
Book Six
159
Book Seven
197
Book Eight
235
Book Nine
275
Volume II
Commentary
Acknowledgements
Maps Tony Carter
Genealogy of Saxo's Kings
Introduction
1
Translator's Introduction
15
Commentary
17
Bibliography
167
Errata in Volume One
178
Index
179

Page vi
The printing of the first volume of this
edition of The History of the Danes is
made possible by a gift to the University
of Cambridge in memory of Dorothea
Coke, Skjaeret, 1951.
Page vii
VOLUME I
ENGLISH TEXT
Page 1
Preface
Introduction
It is generally assumed that Saxo wrote his Preface after he had
completed the rest of the history, probably in the period between 1208
and 1218, since there are allusions to the 1208 expedition across the Elbe
by Valdemar II but no reference to the Estland expedition of 1219. It
must at all events have been completed before Anders Sunesen, whom
Saxo addresses directly in the Preface, ceased to be Archbishop of Lund
in 1222. The style is of a more elaborate and rhetorical character than in
the remainder of the work, and Saxo displays his skill as a Latinist. The
obvious care with which it is composed, and the pains which he had
taken to indicate the purpose of his history, make it an impressive piece
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