Scandinavian Studies, March 22nd, 1996
Bevagna, 27-29 settembre 1990. A cure di Carlo Santini. Roma: II Calamo, 1992 (I Convegni di Classiconorroena, I). Pp. 441. 100,000 lire. SAXO, THE LATE TWELFTH-CENTURY cleric who, at the behest of bishop Absalon, provided the expanding Danish kingdom of the Valdemars with a heroic account of the country's history, has had a European presence ever since his Gesta Danorum were printed in Paris in 1514, notably after one of his princes, Amlethus, had become the protagonist of Shakespeare's best-known play. Saxo was an inspiration for the Danish and Scandinavian national revival of the nineteent...
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