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Saxo Grammaticus

A. Damgaard

Deep dives into the world of Gesta Danorum, Norse mythology and related subjects.

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Biarce awakens

Immediately at Hialte’s call, Biarce wakes and rouses his servant:

At these words Biarce awoke. At once he called to his chamber-servant Scalc and spoke to him thus: [1]

Rise now, lad, blow hard and increase the fire! [2] [3] [4]...

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To arms!

The Bjarkamál preserved in book II of Gesta Danorum can be read as a miniature epic in dactylic hexameters. In spirit and structure it recalls the fall of Troy in book II of the Aeneid, presenting the doomed defence of king Rolf’s hall in L...

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Fearing neither fire nor sword

The Danish king Gram and his companion Besse set out on an expedition to Sweden to prevent the berserk-like king Sigtryg from marrying his daughter Gro to a giant. During their journey, they unexpectedly encounter Gro in a forest, where she...

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Spending Yule with an ettin

The story of how the freeman Rødh overthrew the tyranny of king Snø (“Snow”), with some help from the ettin Læ - the Hlér of Eddic fame - appears in a number of texts: the Chronicon Lethrense, Rimkrøniken, Annales Ryenses, Kongetallet E, Ge...

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The sign of victory

The situation is dire for the Danes toward the close of Bjarkamál: Grim-faced Geats have overrun the defenses of Lejre, king Rolf has fallen in suitably heroic fashion, a smile still upon his face, and dead lie heaped up like grisly barrows...

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