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A name. A world of connections.
A given name in Danish
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01 / Meaning & origin
Saxo is a masculine given name.
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04 / Through time
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Saxo— “rock”
Seaxnot, or Sahsnot, was probably another name for Ing. The word means stone comrade, and he was supposed to be the ancestor of the Sachsen, or Saxons, but he has not numerous namesakes. In the East Saxon pedigree, we find Seaxbeohrt and Seaxbald, and in the East Anglian Seaxburh or Sexburga; and in Scandinavia Sakse remained as a name; and the historian of the twelfth century, who enlightened us so much on Danish history, is Latinized as Saxo Grammaticus.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter II (Names From Teuton Mythology), Section XIV (Ing—Seaxnot) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
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