How Long to Read Gesta Danorum

How Long Does it Take to Read Gesta Danorum?

It takes the average reader 16 hours and 40 minutes to read Gesta Danorum by Saxo (Grammaticus)

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Saxo was probably a canon of Lund Cathedral, at that period a Danish cathedral, and lived at the end of the twelfth century. He was in the service of Archbishop Absalon, who encouraged him to write a history of his own country from the beginnings up to his own time, with a strong Christian bias. Starting with the myths and heroic tales of primitive Scandinavia, he devoted the first nine of his sixteen books to legendary material before dealing with the first kings of the Viking age and finished in 1285, after relating the earlier exploits of King Cnut Valdemarsson. The activities of the Danish kings were intimately bound up with the monarchies of Norway and Sweden; Cnut the Great, one of Saxo's heroes, whose empire stretched as far as Britain and Iceland, was ruler of both these countries. In the last books Saxo took particular concern to describe the campaigns of Valdemar the Great and his warrior archbishop, Absalon, against the Wends of North Germany. The work is a prosimetrum, that is, in six of the first nine books he inserts poems, which are intended to parallel specimens of old Danish heroic poetry in Latin metres. Saxo's Latin prose style is often complex, based as it is on models like Valerius Maximus and Martianus Capella, but he is a lively and compelling story-teller, often displaying a rather sly sense of humour, and an interest in the supernatural. He is the first author to give a full account of Hamlet, whose adventures he relates at some length, the elements of which in a great many respects correspond surprisingly closely with the characters and incidents of Shakespeare's play. Volume II of Saxo Grammaticus contains books 11-16 of Saxo's work, mainly dealing with the history of the first Danish kings.

How long is Gesta Danorum?

Gesta Danorum by Saxo (Grammaticus) is 1,000 pages long, and a total of 250,000 words.

This makes it 337% the length of the average book. It also has 306% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Gesta Danorum Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 22 hours and 46 minutes to read Gesta Danorum aloud.

What Reading Level is Gesta Danorum?

Gesta Danorum is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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