Toke
Danish legendary figure
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basis in “Gesta Danorum”
- In Saxo Grammaticus
…of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet; his Toke, the archer, the prototype of William Tell. Saxo incorporated also myths of national gods whom tradition claimed as Danish kings, as well as myths of foreign heroes. Three heroic poems are especially noteworthy, translated by Saxo into Latin hexameters. These oldest-known Danish poems are…
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