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SAXO GRAMMATICUS

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Overview

SAXO GRAMMATICUS (noun)
  The noun SAXO GRAMMATICUS has 1 sense:

1. Danish historian who chronicled the history of Denmark (including the legend of Hamlet) (1150?-1220?)play

  Familiarity information: SAXO GRAMMATICUS used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


SAXO GRAMMATICUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Danish historian who chronicled the history of Denmark (including the legend of Hamlet) (1150?-1220?)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)


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