The first that survives, by Anders Soffrinson Vedel, dates from 1575, some sixty years after the first edition.

In such passages as I have examined it is vigorous, but very free, and more like a paraphrase than a translation, Saxo's verses being put into loose prose.

Yet it has had a long life, having been modified by Vedel's grandson, John Laverentzen, in 1715, and reissued in 1851.

The present version has been much helped by the translation of Seier Schousbolle, published at Copenhagen in 1752.

It is true that the verses, often the hardest part, are put into periphrastic verse (by Laurentius Thura, c.