Saxo Grammaticus

Born in Zealand in the mid-12th century, Saxo Grammaticus received a thorough education that likely combined clerical Latin training with the martial upbringing of a warrior family, enabling him to serve as a clerk or secretary to Archbishop Absalon, the chief adviser of King Valdemar I. Under Absalon’s patronage he composed the sixteen-book Gesta Danorum, a heroic chronicle that blends myth, oral… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources