Gesta Danorum ("Deeds of the Danes") is a patriotic work of Danish history, by the 12th-century author Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Literate", literally...

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...

a Danish ruler. The first to do so is Saxo Grammaticus in his work Gesta Danorum (c. 1200). This work mixes Norse legend with data about Danish history...

Latin abstract of the lost Skjöldunga saga and in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. He also appears in the Old English poem Beowulf. The various accounts...

translation at Northvegr Gesta Danorum: Book 2 of Gesta Danorum at the Online Medieval & Classical library Book 6 of Gesta Danorum at the Online Medieval...

the Skjöldunga saga. In the Gesta Danorum I.e. Hrólfr Kraki's saga The Chronicon Lethrense/Annales Lundenses, Gesta Danorum and the Skjöldunga saga The...

Angul (or Angel) is a figure in Nordic mythology who, according to the Gesta Danorum was the ancestor of the Danes, along with his brother Dan. He was also...

Grammaticus, who devotes to it parts of the third and fourth books of his Gesta Danorum, completed at the beginning of the 13th century. Saxo's version is supplemented...

mentions a Yuletide sacrifice of a boar to Freyr. The 12th Century Danish Gesta Danorum describes Freyr, under the name Frø, as the "viceroy of the gods". That...

Baldr (Old Norse: [ˈbɑldz̠]; also Balder, Baldur) is a god in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, he is a son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg...

Thor and a sexual partner of Odin. Jörð is attested in Danish history Gesta Danorum, composed in the 12th century by Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus;...

warriors are also mentioned in the Latin work Gesta Danorum. Both the fornaldarsögur and Gesta Danorum were written after the Viking Age and are considered...

disappears and so does his castle. Only a wide landscape remains. In Gesta Danorum a ship meets strong winds and sacrifices are made to various gods to...

preserved in Latin by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum, and printed in Paris in 1514. The Amleth story was subsequently adapted...

Eysteinn Beli, who later was killed by Ragnar's sons. According to Gesta Danorum (book 7), by Saxo Grammaticus, Ring was the son of the Swedish king...

9th and 10th centuries, respectively. An episode in the Latin work Gesta Danorum, written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus, is generally considered...

his page and two nobles to hold his horse. Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum presents three different Danish monarchs named Dan, either splitting...

Theories have been proposed about the possible appearance of Róta in Gesta Danorum and the meaning of her name. According to Guðbrandur Vigfússon, the...

the earliest legendary Danish kings according to Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, where he has a detailed biography. Georges Dumézil and others have...

saga. When Ragnar died, Björn Ironside became the king of Sweden. The Gesta Danorum (book 9) by Saxo Grammaticus also mentions Eysteinn, but only in passing...

displaced by Harthacnut's son, Gorm. In the late and legend-influenced Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus, Harthacnut appears as Knut. He is described as...

Lodbrok (e.g. Tale of Ragnar's Sons, Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok, Krákumál and Gesta Danorum, book 9). He also has a saga of his own in Bósi and Herrauðr's saga...

saga Völsunga saga as the ancestor of the horse Grani, and book I of Gesta Danorum, written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus, contains an episode...

Sweden. The partly legendary Danish chronicle of Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum (c. 1200), is the first text to mention Björn Ironside as a King of...

named in the Gesta Danorum are considered legendary and unverified on account of the unreliability of the work itself. The Gesta Danorum was written in...

in a long list of legendary Danish kings given by Saxo Grammaticus (Gesta Danorum). All other sources name them as kings of the Angles, though according...

Hroðmund, a deed that also seems to be referred to in Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum (Book 2), where we find: "... our king, who laid low Rorik, the son...

Heiðreks and (in the Latinised form as Gestiblindus) in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. A figure of this name also appears in several later Scandinavian folk...

nothing of this, but instead he has Helgo humiliate the Swedes in his Gesta Danorum, book 2. He also confused, or merged, Helgo with Helgi Hundingsbane...

Zealand or Denmark, who appears in Chronicon Lethrense, Annals of Lund, Gesta Danorum, Sögubrot, Njáls saga, Hversu Noregr byggðist, Skjöldunga saga, and...