Excerpt from Scandinavian Britain These compositions are all in the old Northern tongue, but in Adam of Bremen, and his like, there are Latin accounts of Scandinavian affairs based on vernacular and other sources; and Saxo the Long, the Danish monk, has in a remarkable work, which for plan and treatment reminds one of our Geoffrey of Monmouth, preserved many interesting facts and traditions, often drawn from works and poems now lost, but furnished to him in great part by Arnold the poet, a travelled Icelander, his ...
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Excerpt from Scandinavian Britain These compositions are all in the old Northern tongue, but in Adam of Bremen, and his like, there are Latin accounts of Scandinavian affairs based on vernacular and other sources; and Saxo the Long, the Danish monk, has in a remarkable work, which for plan and treatment reminds one of our Geoffrey of Monmouth, preserved many interesting facts and traditions, often drawn from works and poems now lost, but furnished to him in great part by Arnold the poet, a travelled Icelander, his contemporary at Waldemar's Court. The chief Continental authorities are early Latin chronicles by Saxons, and Franks, and Aquitanians, and contemporary notices of the spanish-arabic historians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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