Saxo Grammaticus The History Of The Danes Books I Ix

Author : Saxo (Grammaticus)
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859915021
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Danes, Books I-IX written by Saxo (Grammaticus) and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 isone 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. HILDA ELLIS DAVIDSON's other books include The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England; PETER FISHER is also the translator of Olaus Magnus: A Description of the Northern Peoples. Both are available from Boydell & Brewer. `In the early years of the 13th century the Danish writer Saxo Grammaticus provided his people with a dignified and ambitious Latin account of their glorious past from the mythical past to the historical present -(He) collected the legends of Scandinavian gods and heroes, and arranged their exploits in a series of `biographies' which ostensibly formed an unbroken sequence. He took his tales from a variety of sources, and readers will find his collection of myths, folklore and fabulous history fascinating - An accurate and readable translation of the nine mythological books based on the best scholarly edition'. RUTH MORSE, BRITISH BOOK NEWS.

Author : Saxo (Grammaticus)
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book The History of the Danes: Commentary written by Saxo (Grammaticus) and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 1979 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851157160
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England written by Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329902831
Total Pages : 422 pages
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Download or read book Gesta Danorum - Deeds of the Danes written by Saxo Grammaticus and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Saxo (Grammaticus)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
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Download or read book The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus written by Saxo (Grammaticus) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saxo (Grammaticus)
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Total Pages : 572 pages
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Download or read book “The” First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus written by Saxo (Grammaticus) and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saxo (Grammaticus)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus... written by Saxo (Grammaticus) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saxo Grammaticus
Publisher : Alan Rodgers Books
ISBN 13 : 9781598185607
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book The Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus written by Saxo Grammaticus and published by Alan Rodgers Books. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Saxo Grammaticus
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Total Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book The Danish History written by Saxo Grammaticus and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Frederick York Powell
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781376431445
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus written by Frederick York Powell and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.