Saxo, who lived in the latter part of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, was probably a canon of Lund Cathedral (then Danish). He was secretary to Archbishop Abslon, who encouraged his gifted protégé to write a history of his own country to emulate those of other nations, such as Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Absalon was able to supply him with a large amount of material for the last few of the 16 books, since, as a warrior archbishop, he had taken a leading part in the Danish campaigns against the Wends of North Germany.

Lês fierder by Oxford University Press… Lês fierder

Siet ik juster krekt efkes te bekommen, hiene wy ynienen Sybren Posthumus foar EenVandaag. Ik sil fierder neat ferkeards oer de jonge sizze al koe er om my wolris nei in oare kleanwinkel. It flokt alderferskuorrendst.

Wat my al min nei it sin wie is dat er stie te orakeljen oer selsbestjoer en it foarkomme liet as die er dat út namme fan alle Friezen. It moat net folle idioater wurde.

Lês fierder by Daam… Lês fierder

It is in achtbere Idee,
Dêr’t Men de Hoed foar licht
Lykas wannear’t Men Eale Lju
Samar op Strjitte sjocht,

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Emily Dickinson 1115. oersetting Klaas van der Hoek… Lês fierder