title: The Nine Books of the Danish History: Gesta Danorum
author: Saxo Grammaticus
description: Saxo Grammaticus, or "The Lettered", one of the notable historians of the Middle Ages, may fairly be called not only the earliest chronicler of Denmark, but her earliest writer.
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  # Table Of Contents
  
  
  [Anonymous](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos3850)
  
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  [BEOWULF](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos3910)  
  [PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH
  HOUSE](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos3954)  
  [I](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos6382)  
  [II](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos9127)  
  [III](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos12465)  
  [IV](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos15542)  
  [V](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos18295)  
    
  [VII](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos24419)  
  [VIII](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos26353)  
  [IX](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos29051)  
  [X](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos33626)  
  [XI](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos35787)  
  [XII](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos39434)  
  [XIII](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos41473)  
  [XIV](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos45415)  
  [XV](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos48358)  
  [XVI](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos51109)  
  [XVII](Beowulf_split_003.html#filepos54489)  
  [XVIII](Beowulf_split