 In his will Absalon forgives his clerk Saxo a small debt of two and a half marks of silver and tells him to return two borrowed books to the monastery of Sorø.The legacy of Saxo Grammaticus is the sixteen-book heroic history of the Danes called "Gesta Danorum".In the preface to the work, Saxo writes that his patron Absalon (c. 1128 – 21 March 1201), Archbishop of Lund had encouraged him to write a heroic history of the Danes.