Anders Sørensen Vedel

[2] Vedel started studying at Wittenberg in 1565,[1] which he finished in 1566, and was appointed priest at Copenhagen Castle in 1568.

[3] Vedel's historical knowledge was admired by leading politicians including Christoffer Valkendorf, Bjørn Andersen, Arild Huitfeldt, Johan Friis and Peder Oxe, and he was seen as the right man to continue Christiern Pedersen's Danish language translation of the Latin chronicle Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus.

[1] After pressure from Peder Oxe, Niels Kaas, and Jørgen Rosenkrantz [dk],[2] Vedel wrote a proposal for a Latin continuation of Saxo's work in 1578 which was finalized in 1581.

[2] He was appointed Royal historian in 1584 and received a prelature at Ribe to support himself,[2] and undertook the task of continuing the Danish chronicle in that year.

[2] However other tasks, lack of help from secretaries,[2] his own slowness and carefulness—and perhaps also a general underestimation of the demands of this work—led to very modest results.