Plesner Fragment

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Plesner Fragment, a parchment page from ca. 1275. One of the 4 fragments remaining, or early copy of, of the original Saxo Gesta Danorum. Ca. 15x13cm. It consists of one page with two written sides.

Found 1877 by C. U. A. Plesner in Geheime-archive, where it was used as staple-list on Kristianstad fief taxman-number (skattemandtal) list of 1623. Now owned by the Royal Library of Copenhagen.

Royal Library signature: - Ny kgl. Saml. Fol. 570

Correspond to page 811-813 in Peter Erasmus Müller Latin version of Gesta Danorum from 1839 or page 459.15 – 460.24 in Jørgen Olrik & H. Ræder's Latin version of Gesta Danorum from 1931.

See also Angers Fragment, Lassen Fragment or Kall-Rasmussen Fragment

[edit] References

• Apoteker Sibbernsens Saxobog, C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen, 1927.