Angers Fragment

The Angers Fragment (Angersfragmentet) are four parchment pages dating from the 12th-century.

They are one of the four fragments remaining of the original Gesta Danorum written by Saxo Grammaticus.

[1] It is first spoken of in Albert Lemarchand's book Catalogue des manuscripts de la Bibliothèque d'Angers,(1863, page 90), in the same library where it had been used as binding for an old book from the 15th century.

4to, 869 g. The text corresponds to pages 24-29 in Peter Erasmus Müller Latin version of Gesta Danorum from 1839 and page 11.19 – 16.29 in Jørgen Olrik & H. Ræder's Latin version of Gesta Danorum from 1931.

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