Hagbard and Signe was based on characters from a work by which Danish historian?
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Hagbard and Signe Hagbard and Signe or The Red Mantle (Danish: "Den røde kappe" , Swedish: "Den röda kappan" , Icelandic: "Rauðu skikkjuna" ) is a 1967 Danish-Swedish-Icelandic drama film based on the story of Hagbard and Signy from the twelfth-century work "Gesta Danorum" by Saxo Grammaticus, directed by Gabriel Axel and starring Gitte Hænning. The film won a Technical Prize ("Mention spéciale du grand prix technique") at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.
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Saxo Grammaticus Saxo Grammaticus ( 1150 – c. 1220), also known as Saxo cognomine Longus, was a Danish historian, theologian and author. He is thought to have been a clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, the main advisor to Valdemar I of Denmark. He is the author of the first full history of Denmark.
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Stein Erik Lunde Stein Erik Lunde (born 22 November 1953) is a Norwegian novelist, children's writer, biographer and textbook writer.
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Poul Helgesen Poul Helgesen (also Paul Eliasen; Latin: "Paulus Helie"; ca. 1485 – not mentioned after 1534) was a Danish Carmelite, a humanist and historian.
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Charlotte Baden Charlotte Baden (21 November 1740 – 6 June 1824) was a Danish writer, feminist and letter-writer.
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Niels Meyn Niels Gustav Meyn (born 11 December 1891 in Copenhagen, died April 15, 1957 in Gentofte), was a Danish author.
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Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin Grímur Jónsson Thorkelín (8 October 1752 – 4 March 1829) was an Icelandic–Danish scholar, who became the National Archivist of Denmark and Professor of Antiquities at Copenhagen University.
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Letters from Hell Letters from Hell (Danish: "Breve fra Helvede" ) is a didactic Christian novel by the Danish priest and author Valdemar Adolph Thisted (1815–1887), The work was published in Copenhagen in 1866 and went through 12 editions in its first year.
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Johann Georg Rist Johann Georg Rist (23 November 1775 - 5 February 1847) was a Danish author, diplomat and statesman, originally from Holstein.
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Niels Laurits Høyen Niels Laurits Andreas Høyen, (4 June 1798 – 29 April 1870), Danish is considered to be the first Danish art historian and critic. He promoted a Danish nationalistic art through his writings and lectures, and exerted a far reaching effect on contemporary artists. His work in various cultural institutions helped steer the development of Danish art during the mid-19th century.
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Joachim Gersdorff Joachim Gersdorff (12 November 1611 - 19 April 1661) was a Danish politician, from 1650 to 1660 Steward of the Danish Realm. It was Gersdorff who negotiated the Treaty of Roskilde on Denmark's part during the Second Northern War, a war he had himself been in favour of entering. The treaty, which was concluded in Roskilde on 8 March 1658 (NS), ceded Scania, Halland, Blekinge and Bornholm to Sweden.
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Chronicle of the Expulsion of the Greyfriars The Chronicle of the Expulsion of the Greyfriars (Latin: "Cronica seu brevis processus in causa expulsionis fratrum minoritarum de suis cenobiis provincie Dacie" , Danish: "Krønike on Gråbrødrenes Udjagelse" , or "Gråbrødrenes Fordrivelseskrønike") is a historical writing on the Reformation in Denmark between 1527 and 1532 when the Franciscans were forced to leave Denmark.
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Knud Holmboe Knud Valdemar Gylding Holmboe (April 22, 1902 Horsens Denmark - October 13, 1931 Aqaba, Jordan) was a Danish journalist, author and explorer who converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1921, and, after a sojourn in North Africa, ultimately converted to Islam in 1929. Six years later, he published a book of his experiences on a journey through Libya, that later became famous. The book exposed the maltreatment of the population the author had witnessed on his journey and the atrocities committed by the Italian colonial power. Holmboe was murdered on his way to Makkah in Aqaba in October 1931.
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Historiographer Royal (Denmark) Kongelig historiograf ("Historicus Regius", "Historiographer Royal") was a position in the kingdom of Denmark-Norway (after 1814 Denmark) between 1594 and 1883.
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Skjalm Hvide Skjalm Hvide (born in the early 11th century, died 1113) is regarded as the founder of the Hvide clan, and one of the most influential and powerful chiefs in Denmark in the late Viking age and early medieval age. One of his most important strongholds was located in Jørlunde. He built the church in Jørlunde around the year 1100.
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Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ("Biographical Encyclopedia of Danish Women") is a collection of over 1,900 biographies of Danish women from the Middle Ages to the present. The first edition was published in 2001 by Rosinante & Co, Copenhagen. Free searchable online access is available from Kvinfo.
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Johan Ludvig Heiberg (historian) Johan Ludvig Heiberg (27 November 1854 – 4 January 1928) was a Danish philologist and historian. He is best known for his discovery of previously unknown texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and for his edition of "Euclid's Elements" that T. L. Heath translated into English. He also published an edition of Ptolemy's "Almagest".
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Annals of Lund The Annals of Lund (Danish: "Lundeårbogen", Latin: "Annales Lundenses") is a Latin manuscript written in Lund around 1250-1307. Several copies have survived to the modern day. "The Annals of Lund" are composed of two parts. The first part is based on earlier works, including the "Chronicon Lethrense", and discusses events from antiquity to 1256. The second part includes events from every year until 1307. This portion is unique to the "Annals of Lund" and primarily deals with Danish politics. The topics include the Norwegian King Erik’s offensive in Denmark and Erik Menved's marriage with Ingeborg of Sweden in 1296. Additionally, the Battle of Gestilren in Sweden in 1210 and the 1256 destruction of Refshaleborg fort on Lolland are described.
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Sweyn Forkbeard Sweyn Forkbeard (Old Norse: "Sveinn Haraldsson tjúguskegg"; Danish: "Svend Tveskæg"; 960 – 3 February 1014) was king of Denmark during 986–1014.
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Leonora Christina Ulfeldt Leonora Christina, Countess Ulfeldt, born "Countess Leonora Christina Christiansdatter" til Slesvig og Holsten (8 July 1621 – 16 March 1698), was the daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and wife of Steward of the Realm, traitor Count Corfitz Ulfeldt. Renowned in Denmark since the 19th century for her posthumously published autobiography, "Jammers Minde", written secretly during two decades of solitary confinement in a royal dungeon, her intimate version of the major events she witnessed in Europe's history, interwoven with ruminations on her woes as a political prisoner, still commands popular interest, scholarly respect, and has virtually become the stuff of legend as retold and enlivened in Danish literature and art.
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Sonja Hagemann Sonja Hagemann (6 September 1898 – 17 October 1983) was a Norwegian literary historian and literary critic, especially of children's literature. She is primarily known for the monumental "Barnelitteratur i Norge" (Norwegian Children's Literature I:1965; II:1970; III:1973).
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Erik Christian Haugaard Erik Christian Haugaard (April 13, 1923 – June 4, 2009) was a Danish-born American writer, best known for children's books and for his translations of the works of Hans Christian Andersen.