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Saxo Grammaticus Quotes

1150–1220 Denmark

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.

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Presents from someone antipathetic to us are unacceptable, while those of friends give much greater pleasure; so it is that at times we rate the value of a gift by its giver.

Every female vow is stolen away by changes of fortune or evaporates with shifting seasons; a woman’s reliability stands on slippery soles and is weakened by chance accidents; her faith is glibly pledged but executed slackly, hampered by the various allurements of pleasure; always eager to seek out new interests and forget the old, it leaps away breathlessly towards its desire.

That the country of Denmark was once cultivated and worked by giants, is attested by the enormous stones attached to the barrows and caves of the ancients. Should any man question that this is accomplished by superhuman force, let him look up at the tops of certain mountains and say, if he knows how, what man hath carried such immense boulders up to their crests.

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