All translations are the author’s own, except:
page 17: ‘engraved the letters of their own language …’ from Saxo Grammaticus, The History of the Danes, ed. Hilda Ellis Davidson, trans. Peter Fisher (Cambridge, 1979), page 5
page 18: ‘a man … widely believed throughout Europe, though falsely, to be a god’ from Saxo Grammaticus, The History of the Danes, ed. Hilda Ellis Davidson, trans. Peter Fisher (Cambridge, 1979), page 25
page 158: ‘womanish body movements’ from Saxo Grammaticus, The History of the Danes, ed. Hilda Ellis Davidson, trans. Peter Fisher (Cambridge, 1979), page 172