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Amleth (Old Norse: Amlóði;
Latinized as
Amlethus) is a
figure in a
medieval Scandinavian legend, the
direct inspiration of the
character of
Prince Hamlet...
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character such as
found in a
variety of fiction. In the chronicle,
Amlethus is sent to
court Hermuthruda by the King of England.
However the queen...
- version,
Horwendillus (Ørvendil), is also the name
given to the
father of
Amlethus (Amleth) in Saxo Grammaticus'
Gesta Danorum.
Comparative studies of the...
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presented as Hamlet's
Grave (Hamlets Grav), the
burial site of
Amleth (
Amlethus, Amlodi, Amblett), the
Jutish chieftain of
historical legend on whom Hamlet...
- Belleforest's
version the hero's name had been Amleth, and in Saxo's
version Amlethus. The
author of the Ur-Hamlet,
perhaps Shakespeare himself,
seems to have...
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Norse or
Icelandic poetry from
several centuries earlier. Saxo has it as
Amlethus, the
Latin form of the old
Jutish Amlethæ. In
terms of
etymology the Old...
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Oxford University Press, 2017), ISBN 978-0-19-881190-9 R.
Zenker (Boeve-
Amlethus,
Berlin and Leipzig, 1904)
established a
close parallel between Bevis and...
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suggested that the name
Amlawdd could be a
variation of the name
Amleth or
Amlethus,
which appears in Saxo Grammaticus'
thirteenth century Gesta Danorum and...
