Saxo Grammaticus itu apa sih?

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.

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.