File:De to Røvere, som Gram slog.jpg
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English: De to Røvere, som Gram slog. The scene is described in Gesta Danorum in the following way:
"Bess proceeded and learnt that the road was beset by two robbers. These he slew simply by charging them as they rushed covetously forth to despoil him. This done, loth to seem to have done any service to the soil of an enemy, he put timbers under the carcases of the slain, fastened them thereto, and stretched them so as to counterfeit an upright standing position; so that in their death they might menace in seeming those whom their life had harmed in truth; and that, terrible even after their decease, they might block the road in effigy as much as they had once in deed. Whence it appears that in slaying the robbers he took thought for himself and not for Sweden: for he betokened by so singular an act how great a hatred of Sweden filled him." Elton's translation |
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| Source | Photographed by uploader from Frederik Winkel Horn's 1898 edition of Saxo Grammaticus - Danmarks Krønike, page 11. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The image is in the public domain in the United States because the book was published before 1923. Under current law it entered the public domain in Denmark in 2016. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 10:10, 30 August 2008 | 660 × 1,611 (702,647 bytes) | w:en:Haukurth (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description='''De_to_Røvere,_som_Gram_slog'''. The scene is described in ''[[Gesta Danorum]]'' in the following way: "Bess proceeded and learnt that the road was beset by two robbers. These he slew simply by charging them as they rushed |
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