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Antiquities. --- To 1241. --- Denmark --- Denmark. --- History

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Antiquities. --- Archeologie. --- Neolithic period --- Neolithic period. --- Stone age --- Stone age. --- Denmark --- Denmark. --- Northmen. --- To 1241. --- History

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Saxo, --- Middle Ages --- Historiography --- Denmark --- History --- Historiography. --- Middle Ages - Historiography --- Saxo, - Grammaticus, - -approximately 1204 - Gesta Danorum --- Denmark - History - To 1241 - Historiography

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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.

Folklore --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Denmark --- Danemark --- History --- Histoire --- Early works to 1800. --- Saxo, --- Folklore - Scandinavia - Early works to 1800 --- Folklore - Scandinavie --- Saxo, - Grammaticus, - -approximately 1204. - Gesta Danorum --- Denmark - History - To 1241 - Early works to 1800

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948.9 <093> --- Geschiedenis van Denemarken--Historische bronnen --- 948.9 <093> Geschiedenis van Denemarken--Historische bronnen --- -948.9 <093> --- -Geschiedenis van Denemarken--Historische bronnen --- Folklore --- -Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Denmark --- Denemarken --- Dania --- Dannemarc --- Denmaakʻŭ --- Danyah --- Daniyah --- Danmark --- Dennemarck --- Dacia (Kingdom) --- Danska --- Kingdom of Denmark --- Kongeriget Danmark --- Даниэ --- Daniė --- Дание --- Дание Королыгъо --- Danie Korolygʺo --- Denemarke --- Koninkryk van Denemarke --- Denemearc --- Denemearc þæt Cynerīce --- دنمارك --- Danimārk --- Dinamarca --- Reino de Dinamarca --- Ndinamayka --- Дания --- Danii︠a︡ --- Даниялъул Ханлъи --- Danii︠a︡lʺul Khanlʺi --- Danimarka --- Danimarka Krallığı --- History --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- -DENMARK --- HISTORY --- TO 1241 --- DENMARK --- KINGS AND RULERS --- HISTORY OF THE DANES --- -Denmark --- -Folklore