1721), and Schousbolle often does not face a difficulty; but he gives the sense of Saxo simply and concisely.
The lusty paraphrase by the enthusiastic Nik.Fred.Sev.Grundtvig, of which there have been several editions, has also been of occasional use.
No other translations, save of a scrap here and there into German, seem to be extant.
THE MSS.
It will be understood, from what has been said, that no complete MS.

of Saxo's History is known.

The epitomator in the fourteenth century, and Krantz in the seventeenth, had MSS.

before them; and there was that one which Christian Pedersen found and made the basis of the first edition, but which has disappeared.

Barth had two manuscripts, which are said to have been burnt in 1636.