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Author : Saxo (Grammaticus)
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005399055
Author : Oliver Elton,F York 1850-1904 Powell,Grammaticus Saxo
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1018134913
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Author : Saxo Grammaticus
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329902831
Gesta 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 : Karsten Friis-Jensen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8788073327
Author : Saxo Grammaticus
Publisher : Alan Rodgers Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1598185608
Saxo 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004696914
Ever 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.
Author : Saxo Grammaticus
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613107003
Author : Saxo (Grammaticus)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z313367805
Author : Saxo (Grammaticus),William F. Hansen
Publisher : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015005079945
Author : Saxo Grammaticus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798706069452
Now Dan and Angul, with whom the stock of the Danes begins, were begotten of Humble, their father, and were the governors and not only the founders of our race. (Yet Dudo, the historian of Normandy, considers that the Danes are sprung and named from the Danai.) And these two men, though by the wish and favour of their country they gained the lordship of the realm, and, owing to the wondrous deserts of their bravery, got the supreme power by the consenting voice of their countrymen, yet lived without the name of king: the usage whereof was not then commonly resorted to by any authority among our people. Of these two, Angul, the fountain, so runs the tradition, of the beginnings of the Anglian race, caused his name to be applied to the district which he ruled. This was an easy kind of memorial wherewith to immortalise his fame: for his successors a little later, when they gained possession of Britain, changed the original name of the island for a fresh title, that of their own land.
Author : Stanislaw Sielicki
Publisher : Stanislaw Sielicki
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Among the literary sources on the pre-Christian religion and mythology of the Slavs, the Western, German-Danish, and Latin texts, while predominantly highly fragmented and biased, distinguish themselves when compared to the Arab and Old Rus' sources by their relative scrupulousness and less obvious agendas. Even in the backdrop of the other Western sources, accounts of Saxo Grammaticus are especially characterized by the detailed and rigorous descriptions and the minimal use of ideologically motivated narrative instruments. Unfortunately, the English translation of book XIV, Gesta Danorum, written by Erik Christiansen, is highly difficult to access. As well, Oliver Elton's translation of certain parts related to the topic fragments, included in his edition of books I-IX, lacks a desired level of accuracy in the details of the cult description. The following translation, with all its imperfections, is intended to make Saxo Grammaticus' texts more accessible for a wider circle of readers, both specialists and not; present frequently overlooked fragments; and correct some of the errors, traditionally creeping from one of the Saxo's account overview to another. The Latin original accompanies the translation, and an attempt was made to preserve the original structure of the text in English translation as much as possible without impeding its semantics and the ease of understanding. Another goal of this translation is to give a second possible reading to vague fragments, comparing to existing translations, without penalizing the accuracy.
Author : André Muceniecks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Baltic Sea
ISBN : 1942401132
The twelfth to thirteenth centuries in Denmark were a time of transition, particularly in the context of the Northern Crusades. The Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus, a Danish cleric, was for several centuries an official and referential history in Denmark. Initially written under the commission of Archbishop Absolom, its sixteen books are traditionally divided into two parts, arbitrarily called "mythic" (books 1-9) and "historical" (books 10-16). The scheme of the Four Cardinal Virtues, first studied by Kurt Johanesson, provides referential and structural values, while what Andr Muceniecks terms the theme of the Counselor covers a principal narrative "kernel," inserted after the previously mentioned values as political conceptions and fundamental ideas. It is not sufficient for the king to be strong; he needs to be wise, and have a wiser man to guide him, here represented by the Archbishopric. By interweaving this with the context, Muceniecks identifies a defense of hierocratic conceptions, even in books where Christianity is absent. The Gesta also defines a Danish hegemonic project in the Baltic, under guidance from the Archbishopric, grounded in the crusade movements. Such movements are presented through complex language and imagery about a glorious past brought to bear on the projects in the thirteenth century while internal tensions strengthen the monarchic and ecclesiastical institutions.
Author : Saxo (Grammaticus)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Denmark
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ1LA9
Author : Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0851157165
This study concerns the importance of the sword in Anglo-Saxon and Viking society, with reference to surviving swords and literary sources, especially Beowulf.
Author : Saxo (Grammaticus)
Publisher : Oxford Medieval Texts
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198705765
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 II of Saxo Grammaticus contains books 11-16 of Saxo's work, mainly dealing with the history of the first Danish kings.
