Of another longish piece, found in Copenhagen at the end of the seventeenth century by Johannes Laverentzen, and belonging to a codex burnt in the fire of 1728, a copy still extant in the Copenhagen Museum, was made by Otto Sperling.

For fragments, either extant or alluded to, of the later books, the student should consult the carefully collated text of Holder.

The whole MS.

material, therefore, covers but a little of Saxo's work, which was practically saved for Europe by the perseverance and fervour for culture of a single man, Bishop Urne.
SAXO AS A WRITER.
Saxo's countrymen have praised without stint his remarkable style, for he has a style.

It is often very bad; but he writes, he is not in vain called Grammaticus, the man of letters.