Christiern Pedersen
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Christiern Pedersen was a Danish canon, humanist scholar, writer, printer and publisher.
Title page of Danorum Regum heroumque Historiae, Paris 1514
Saxo Grammaticus
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Saxo Grammaticus, also known as Saxo cognomine Longus, was a Danish historian, theologian, and author. He is thought to have been a clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, the main advisor
Christiern Pedersen
…Latin-Danish lexicon, called Vocabularium ad usum Dacorum. He wanted to publish the huge 300-year-old chronicle of Denmark, Gesta Danorum, written by Saxo Grammaticus, but he had difficulty in gaining access to a manuscript of the work. At that time the most knowledge of this work came from a summary called Compendium…
Saxo by the Norwegian illustrator Louis Moe