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Hamlet is a striking figure in Scandinavian romance and the hero of Shakespeare's tragedy, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
The chief authority for the legend of Hamlet is Saxo Grammaticus, who devotes to it parts of the third and fourth books of his Gesta Danorum, completed at the beginning of the 13th century. It is supposed that the story of Hamlet, Amleth or Amlóði, was contained in the lost Skjöldunga saga, but there are no means of determining whether Saxo derived his information in this case...
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