Gesta Danorum ("Deeds of the Danes") is a patriotic work of Danish history, by the 12th-century author Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Literate", literally...
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Saxo Grammaticus (section Gesta Danorum)
the main advisor to Valdemar I of Denmark. He is the author of the Gesta Danorum, the first full history of Denmark, from which the legend of Amleth...
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a Danish ruler. The first to do so is Saxo Grammaticus in his work Gesta Danorum (c. 1200). This work mixes Norse legend with data about Danish history...
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Hrothgar (section Gesta Danorum)
the Skjöldunga saga. In the Gesta Danorum I.e. Hrólfr Kraki's saga The Chronicon Lethrense/Annales Lundenses, Gesta Danorum and the Skjöldunga saga The...
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Skjöldr (section Gesta Danorum)
Latin abstract of the lost Skjöldunga saga and in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. He also appears in the Old English poem Beowulf. The various accounts...
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Dan (king) (section The Gesta Danorum)
his page and two nobles to hold his horse. Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum presents three different Danish monarchs named Dan, either splitting...
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Angul (mythology) (section Gesta Danorum)
Angul (or Angel) is a figure in Nordic mythology who, according to the Gesta Danorum was the ancestor of the Danes, along with his brother Dan. He was also...
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Útgarða-Loki (section Gesta Danorum)
disappears and so does his castle. Only a wide landscape remains. In Gesta Danorum a ship meets strong winds and sacrifices are made to various gods to...
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Hel (mythological being) (section Gesta Danorum)
9th and 10th centuries, respectively. An episode in the Latin work Gesta Danorum, written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus, is generally considered...
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Baldr (section Gesta Danorum)
Baldr (Old Norse also Balder, Baldur) is a god in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, he is a son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, and has numerous...
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Grammaticus, who devotes to it parts of the third and fourth books of his Gesta Danorum, completed at the beginning of the 13th century. Saxo's version is supplemented...
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Róta (section Gesta Danorum)
Theories have been proposed about the possible appearance of Róta in Gesta Danorum and the meaning of her name. According to Guðbrandur Vigfússon, the...
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Freyr (section Gesta Danorum)
mentions a Yuletide sacrifice of a boar to Freyr. The 12th Century Danish Gesta Danorum describes Freyr, under the name Frø, as the "viceroy of the gods". That...
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warriors are also mentioned in the Latin work Gesta Danorum. Both the fornaldarsögur and Gesta Danorum were written after the Viking Age and are considered...
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Hrólfr Kraki (section Gesta Danorum)
Hroðmund, a deed that also seems to be referred to in Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum (Book 2), where we find: "... our king, who laid low Rorik, the son...
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Sigurd Ring (section Gesta Danorum)
Eysteinn Beli, who later was killed by Ragnar's sons. According to Gesta Danorum (book 7), by Saxo Grammaticus, Ring was the son of the Swedish king...
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Herrauðr (section Gesta Danorum)
Lodbrok (e.g. Tale of Ragnar's Sons, Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok, Krákumál and Gesta Danorum, book 9). He also has a saga of his own in Bósi and Herrauðr's saga...
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Alaric and Eric (section In Gesta Danorum)
King Eirík and took up embroidery. Saxo Grammaticus in Book 5 of his Gesta Danorum introduces Ericus Desertus, that is Erik the Eloquent, son of a champion...
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Jörð (section Gesta Danorum)
Thor and a sexual partner of Odin. Jörð is attested in Danish history Gesta Danorum, composed in the 12th century by Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus;...
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Sleipnir (section Gesta Danorum)
saga Völsunga saga as the ancestor of the horse Grani, and book I of Gesta Danorum, written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus, contains an episode...
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Ingeld (section Gesta Danorum)
translation at Northvegr Gesta Danorum: Book 2 of Gesta Danorum at the Online Medieval & Classical library Book 6 of Gesta Danorum at the Online Medieval...
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Víkar (section From Gesta Danorum)
of rope turned into a strong withy. Víkar died. Saxo Grammaticus in Gesta Danorum (book 6) refers to a similar version relating a magic transformation...
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Hadingus (section Gesta Danorum)
the earliest legendary Danish kings according to Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, where he has a detailed biography. Georges Dumézil and others have...
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displaced by Harthacnut's son, Gorm. In the late and legend-influenced Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus, Harthacnut appears as Knut. He is described as...
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Halga (section Gesta Danorum)
nothing of this, but instead he has Helgo humiliate the Swedes in his Gesta Danorum, book 2. He also confused, or merged, Helgo with Helgi Hundingsbane...
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Eysteinn Beli (section Gesta Danorum)
saga. When Ragnar died, Björn Ironside became the king of Sweden. The Gesta Danorum (book 9) by Saxo Grammaticus also mentions Eysteinn, but only in passing...
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Hjaðningavíg (section Gesta Danorum)
never-ending battle which is documented in Sörla þáttr, Ragnarsdrápa, Gesta Danorum, Skíðaríma and in Skáldskaparmál. It is also held to appear on the image...
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Gestumblindi (section Gesta Danorum)
Heiðreks and (in the Latinised form as Gestiblindus) in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. A figure of this name also appears in several later Scandinavian folk...
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may also be identical to Lother (Latin Lotherus) in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum (Book 1) or the same history may have been applied to two originally...
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Signhildsberg (section Gesta Danorum)
á Velli and Arnórr Þórðarson. Saxo Grammaticus writes in Book 8 of Gesta Danorum that Sigmund, one of the warriors of the House of Yngling, came from...
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