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This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 487 pages of information about The Danish History, Books I-IX.

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Start of eBook	1
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:	1
OTHER TRANSLATIONS—	1
RECOMMENDED READING—	1
INTRODUCTION.	1
LIFE OF SAXO.	2
THE HISTORY.	4
HISTORY OF THE WORK.	5
THE MSS.	7
SAXO AS A WRITER.	8
FOLK LORE INDEX.	9
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS.	9
CUSTOMARY LAW.	11
STATUTE LAWS.	17
WAR.	20
SOCIAL LIFE AND MANNERS.	25
SUPERNATURAL BEINGS.	25
FUNERAL RITES AND MAN’S FUTURE STATE.	29
MAGIC AND FOLK-SCIENCE.	32
FOLK-TALES.	35
SAXO’S MYTHOLOGY.	38
—Oliver Elton	43
THE DANISH HISTORY OF SAXO GRAMMATICUS.	43
BOOK ONE.	50
BOOK TWO	70
BOOK THREE.	95
BOOK FOUR.	118
BOOK FIVE.	139
BOOK SIX.	182
BOOK SEVEN.	214
BOOK EIGHT.	247
BOOK NINE.	283

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