The Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus Saxo Grammaticus, who"s believed to have lived from 1150 until 1220 (though the dates are uncertain), wrote a sixteen-volume history of the Denmark that he lived in. Volumes X through XVI (oddly -- or perhaps not so oddly -- written first) are a conventional history of Saxo"s day and age. But the first the volumes are the stuff of myth and legend, delightful tales of mythic Norse persons and circu... Full description