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Quotes
- “Danicam uero regionem giganteo quondam cultu exercitam eximie magnitudinis saxa ueterum bustis ac specubus affixa testantur. Quod si quis ui monstruosa patratum ambigat, quorundam montium excelsa suspiciat dicatque, si callet, quis eorum uerticibus cautes tante granditatis inuexerit.”
- “Tot iuuenis artibus Geuari filia Nanna admodum delectata amplexum eius expetere coepit. Fit enim, ut uirtute iuuenum uirgines incalescant et, quorum minus complacet forma, probitas acceptetur. Multiplices enim amor aditus habet. Aliis forme decor, aliis animi uirtus, quibusdam artium usus uoluptatis iter aperit. Nonnullis comitas ueneris copiam parat, complures fame candor acceptos facit, nec leuius uulnus fortes quam pulchri puellis infligere solent.”
- “Minus enim acceptantur dona, que prestat inuisus. Sane gratiora sunt, que ab amicis porriguntur. Adeo interdum ex offerente oblati precium pendet.”
- “At dii, quibus precipua apud Bizantium sedes habebatur, Othinum uariis maiestatis detrimentis diuinitatis gloriam maculasse cernentes collegio suo submouendum duxerunt. Nec solum primatu eiectum, sed etiam domestico honore cultuque spoliatum proscribendum curabant, satius existimantes probrosi antistitis potentiam subrui quam publice religionis habitum prophanari, ne uel ipsi alieno crimine implicati insontes nocentis nomine punirentur.”
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Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1150 – c. 1220), also known as Saxo cognomine Longus, was a Danish historian, theologian, and author. He is thought to have been a clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, 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 would come to inspire the story of Hamlet by Shakespeare.
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