His brief draft of annals is written in rough mediocre Latin.
It names but a few of the kings recorded by Saxo, and tells little that Saxo does not.

Yet there is a certain link between the two writers.
Sweyn speaks of Saxo with respect; he not obscurely leaves him the task of filling up his omissions.

Both writers, servants of the brilliant Bishop Absalon, and probably set by him upon their task, proceed, like Geoffrey of Monmouth, by gathering and editing mythical matter.

This they more or less embroider, and arrive in due course insensibly at actual history.

Both, again, thread their stories upon a genealogy of kings in part legendary.