The Hunt for Saxo Shortly after the year 1208, Saxo Grammaticus put the finishing touches to his great history of Denmark, Gesta Danorum, ‘The Deeds of the Danes’. This work, written in a beautiful but idiosyncratic Latin, offers an abundance of stories about Danish kings and heroes and, intriguingly, translations into Latin of Old Norse […]| Latinitium
Did people “back in the day” have a sense of humour? Or, are jokes something new to mankind? Of course people have laughed throughout history, telling each other jokes and stories meant for laughter! However, what you’ve laughed at and considered funny has widely differed from timeperiod to timeperiod as well as from country to […]| Latinitium