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| | BOOK ONE. - The Danish History, Books I-IX - Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned") at HistoricalBookArchive.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | After this SWIPDAG, King of Norway, destroyed Gram, who was attempting to avenge the outrage on his sister and the attempt on his daughter's chastity. |
 | | Swipdag, now that he had slain Gram, was enriched with the realms of Denmark and Sweden; and because of the frequent importunities of his wife he brought back from banishment her brother Guthorm, upon his promising tribute, and made him ruler of the Danes. |
 | | And he forced them by his power not only to lay down their divinity, but further to quit the country, deeming that they, who tried to foist themselves so iniquitously into the skies, ought to be outcasts from the earth. |
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