Vedel, Anders Sørensen

Vedel, Anders Sørensen

▪ Danish historian
born , Nov. 9, 1542, Vejle, Den.
died Feb. 13, 1616, Ribe

      Danish historian and ballad collector who translated the Gesta Danorum of the medieval historian Saxo Grammaticus from Latin into Danish (1575).

      Vedel was a clergyman at the royal court. In 1591 he published his Et hundrede udvalde danske viser, a collection of 100 medieval Danish folk songs and ballads. Based on oral and manuscript sources, it was the earliest printed collection and remains a principal source of Danish ballads. It was enlarged and republished in 1695 by Peder Syv.

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