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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Danish historian whose Gesta Danorum, a chronicle of legendary and historical Danish kings, contains the story of Hamlet.
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- noun Danish historian who chronicled the history of Denmark (including the legend of Hamlet) (1150?-1220?)
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Examples
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I drew out a thick volume, old "Saxo Grammaticus," which I remembered to have bought at an auction, and presented to him; but now I found something quite different to think about.
The Visionary Pictures From Nordland Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870
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His surname evokes both the medieval historian Saxo Grammaticus and Jacques Derrida's crit-theory bellwether, "Of Grammatology."
Sense & Semiotics Sam Sacks 2011
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Saxo Grammaticus, a quo rex Sueno et caetera Danorum regum stemmata.
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In those northern countries, the people are therefore generally dull, heavy, and many witches, which (as I have before quoted) Saxo Grammaticus, Olaus, Baptista Porta ascribe to melancholy.
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In the all accounts I've read except for the Saxo Grammaticus outlier, Baldr pretty much stews in Helheim, dead, until after Ragnarok.
Norse question gregvaneekhout 2006
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It also is based not so much on Hamlet as the original written source for the play, a Danish history written in 1204 by an unreliable historian named Saxo Grammaticus.
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Gamelyn, was a little pamphlet of those times; and old Mr. Cibber remembered the tale of Hamlet in plain English prose, which the criticks have now to seek in Saxo Grammaticus.
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It also is based not so much on Hamlet as the original written source for the play, a Danish history written in 1204 by an unreliable historian named Saxo Grammaticus.
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The mariage of the daughter of Harald, slaine by William the conquerour, vnto Ieruslaus duke of Russia, taken out of the 9. booke of the Danish historie written by Saxo Grammaticus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Hoc loco attingendum duxi quod tradit Saxo Grammaticus, Danorum celebratissimus historicus, Islandi� fontes quosdam nunc ad summum excrescere, & exundare: Nunc ade� subsidere, vt vix fontes agnoscas.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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