Saxo Grammaticus

Saxo Grammaticus
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Biografi
Kelahiran	k. 1150 ; Zealand
Kematian	1220 (69/70 tahun)
Data pribadi
Agama	Kekristenan
Pendidikan	Roskilde Katedralskole (mul)
Kegiatan
Pekerjaan	sejarawan, penulis
Karya kreatif
	Karya terkenal (12 abad) Gesta Danorum ;

Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1150-1220), juga dikenal sebagai Longus Cognomine Saxo, adalah seorang sejarawan Denmark. Ia diperkirakan telah menjabat petugas sekuler atau sekretaris Absalon bagi Uskup Agung Lund dan penasihat utama untuk Raja Valdemar I dari Denmark. Dia adalah penulis sejarah penuh Denmark yang pertama.

Referensi

Sumber Tertulis

Davidson, Hilda Ellis. Introduction to Saxo Grammaticus The History of the Danes, Book I-IX. Volume II: Commentary. Edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1980.
Dumézil, Georges. From Myth to Fiction: The Saga of Hadingus. Translated by Derek Coltman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Fisher, Peter, trans. Saxo Grammaticus The History of the Danes, Book I-IX. Volume I: Text. Edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979.
Fisher, Peter, trans. Saxo Grammaticus The History of the Danes, Book I-IX. Volume II: Commentary. Edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1980.
Friis-Jensen, Karsten. "In the Presence of the Dead. Saint Canute the Duke in Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum." In The Making of Christian Myths in the Periphery of Latin Christendom (c. 1000-1300), edited by Lars Boje Mortensen, 195-216. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006.
Jones, Gwyn. A History of the Vikings. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Sawyer, P. H. Kings and Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe AD 700-1100. New York: Methuen & Co., 1982.

Sumber Online

Amory, Frederic. "Review work: Saxo Grammaticus as Latin Poet: studies in the Verse Passages of the "Gesta Danorum" by Karsten Friis-Jensen." Speculum, Vol. 64, No. 3 (July 1989), p. 701-706, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2854215 (Accessed October 4, 2008).
Christiansen, Eric. "Review work: Saxo Grammaticus, The History of the Danes, Vol. I by Peter Fisher;Hilda Ellis Davidson." The English Historical Review, Vol. 96, No. 379 (April 1981), p. 382-385, http://www.jstor.org/stable/568298 (accessed October 5, 2008).
Malone, Kemp. "Primitivism in Saxo Grammaticus." Journal of History of Ideas, Vol. 19, No. 1 (January 1958), p. 94-104, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2707955 (accessed October 5, 2008).
Muir, Kenneth. "Review work: Saxo Grammaticus and the Life of Hamlet: A Translation, History and Commentary. By William F. Hansen." Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Autumn 1984), p. 370-372, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2870387 (accessed October 5, 2008).
Westergaard, Waldemar. "Danish History and Danish Historians." The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 24, No. 2 (June 1952), p. 167-180, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1872564 (accessed October 4, 2008).