 The history is thought to have been started about 1185, after Sven Aggesen wrote his history.The goal of "Gesta Danorum" was as Saxo writes "to glorify our fatherland," which he accomplishes on the model of the "Aeneid" by Vergil.Saxo also may have owed much to Plato, Cicero and also to more contemporary writers like Geoffrey of Monmouth.