Hey all, I think we're a bit off schedule with our Saxo discussion. Have there been any off list developments? I'd like to participate, but I really, really...
... Hi Dan, We're supposed to be on the Preface/Introduction this week. I took it along on my trip last weekend and marked up quite a few places. Let me take...
Following up on that last post, Saxo takes for granted that civilization and the Latin language go hand in hand: In explaining why no one in Denmark had yet...
... mentions runic engravings in rock "Men who though ... some record of their history, that they encompassed ... for ... What I get from this is the sense of...
Hi all, I have to be away again this weekend, but I'm taking Saxo with me, so I'll come back on Monday with lots of passages marked up, both from the Preface ...
"By this ceremony Humble was elected king at his father's death, thus winning a novel favour from his country; but by the malice of ensuing fate he fell from a...
In a message dated 11/8/2002 12:59:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... For some reason I really enjoyed reading it, and I'm looking it over now to try to remember...
In a message dated 11/11/2002 3:24:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... I dunno. Anybody have access to Saxo's original, or know if it's on the web anywhere? Tim ...
In a message dated 11/10/2002 4:05:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Thanks, your studies have served you (and us) well! Tim [Non-text portions of this message...
Since Saxo, like Snorri, was a Christian, we always take that into account when reading his work from a heathen religion standpoint. I think it's good to try...
Notice that Skiold displays one of the most common characteristics of the mythic hero: either growing and maturing at an accelerated rate, or performing feats...
Help me understand this -- I must be reading something wrong. "He took to wife the daughter of his upbringer, Roar.....A little while after he gave her in...
The pattern I noticed most throughout book 1, which I presume is carried throught the books, is the way all the stories seem to have a Greek/Roman mythos...
... That's how I understood it. The part with Gram and Bess talking to Groa was a little confusing too, mostly due to the use of pronouns rather than proper ...
... Many of Saxo's explicitly mythic references are Greek and Roman in origin. That is not to say he recounts any Greek or Roman myths, rather he uses...
... I am only reaching here Tim, but I would speculate that Saxo looked down on manumission because it enabled owners of slaves to put slaves out of their ...
Ok.... scanning through the text... here are a few examples.... Bess again: "Gram, ere he shall shut his own eyes in death, shall first make him a ghost, and,...
The people of Skane are culturally and historically Danes-they are trying to maintain their own cultural identity separtate from Sweden. Many people are...
... Both, probably. I have to keep reminding myself that the only audience for this work would be readers of Latin, which probably meant a solid education all...
... Maybe, but I think that manumission was a formal process, not just kicking slaves out of the house. It would seem that better ways to get rid of them ...
... Most of us, I would say, Heather. What about language? I know that Danish and Swedish are close anyway, but I wonder if they have a distinct dialect. Tim...
... If I remember right, Saxo was a strong believer in what we'd now call social classes, and didn't want them mixing. He makes a big deal, later in the book,...
Tim, I think you misread what Wayne posted. I think he was saying that slaveholders would boot out slaves that had gotten weak/old or whose usefulness ended....
Hej Tim, ... You're reading it right. The Davidson/Fisher edition has: "To show fuller gratitude for his fostering he took to wife his teacher Roar's daughter,...
Heilsa William, ... I would say it's certainly less and less the case these days too. lol ... That is exactly right as what it was in that time. An excellent...
... Arlie, This certainly may have been the case with Saxo. Certainly there was a class system in Europe at the time. However, that is not the translators...
