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
Saxo by the Norwegian illustrator Louis Moe
Amleth
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Amleth is a figure in a medieval Scandinavian legend.
Saxo Grammaticus
…of Lund, 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 would come to inspire the story of Hamlet by Shakespeare. The Jutland Chronicle gives evidence that Saxo was born in Zealand. It is unlikely he was…
Amblett in a 17th-century Danish manuscript illustration