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 Gesta Danorum Information
1,827 words, approx. 6 pages
 Gesta Danorum ("Deeds of the Danes") is a work of Danish history, by 12th century author Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Literate", literally "the Grammarian"). It is the most ambitious literary undertaking of medieval Denmark and an essential source for... 
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Frederic Amory
19,600 words, approx. 65 pages
 In the following essay, Amory explains how myths may be transformed by the very act of being studied and searches for the historic Hamlet, in part, in Saxo's Gesta Danorum.
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Critical Essay by Ruth Mazo Karras
6,853 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Karras examines how three thirteenth-century works—the Gesta Danorum, the Heimskringla of Snorri Sturluson, and Njal's Saga—differ in their accounts of the history of paganism and the advent of Christianity.
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Critical Essay by K. Friis-Jensen
1,975 words, approx. 7 pages
In the following essay, Friis-Jensen offers background information on the Gesta Danorum, summarizes its books, and discusses the development of Saxo's popularity in Europe.
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