"Cui Regnerus in regnum succedit. Quo tempore rex Suetie Frø interfecto Noruagiensium rege Syuardo coniuges necessariorum eius prostibulo relegatas publice constuprandas exhibuit. Quo Regnerus audito auite ultionis studio Noruagiam petiuit. Eo ueniente matrone complures, que corporum suorum ludibria aut nuper passe fuerant aut in proximo pudicitie periculum uerebantur, uiriliter culte cupide castris eius adproperare coeperunt, profitentes se fatum contumelie prelaturas. Nec erubuit futurus muliebris improperii uindex aduersum auctorem turpitudinis, quarum ignominiam ulcisci uenerat, auxilia mutuari. Inter quas affuit et Lathgertha, perita bellandi foemina, que uirilem in uirgine animum gerens immisso humeris capillitio prima inter promptissimos dimicabat. Cuius incomparabilem operam admirantibus cunctis—quippe cesaries tergo inuolare conspecta foeminam esse prodebat..."
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Sec. 4, paras. 1–2 (ed. Karsten Friis-Jensen, 2015; tr. Oliver Elton, 1894)
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Saxo Grammaticus
Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1150 – c. 1220), also known as Saxo Longus, was a Danish historian and theologian. 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 Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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