Relationship Between Svend Aagesen and Saxo Grammaticus
Whether Svend knew Saxo Grammaticus by more than name, is an often discussed subject. Some comments in Brevis Historia Regum Daniae can be interpreted to support this view. Some researchers go as far as to say that they might have gone to school in France together, they both served various Kings of Denmark simultaneously, went on those Kings' many war expeditions and, as such, some of their writings are firsthand accounts. That is likely to be the case for Svend, but there is very little evidence to back it up this connection for Saxo. There exists no direct evidence that they knew each other than by name.
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