Anders Sørensen Vedel

Anders Sørensen Vedel (9 November 1542 – 13 February 1616) was a Danish priest and historian. He translated the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus into Danish in 1575, and published the influential "Hundredvisebogen" in 1591.

Biography Anders Sørensen was born in Vejle, from which place the Vedel name comes. At 14 years old, he moved to study in Ribe, and after finishing his education he moved on to Copenhagen University in 1561. Vedel's historical knowledge was admired by leading politicians including Christoffer Valkendorf, Bjørn Andersen, Arild Huitfeldt, Johan Friis and Peder Oxe, and he was seen as the right man to continue Christiern Pedersen's Danish language translation of the Latin chronicle Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus. However, he overreached himself in his attempt to do so. He planned an ambitious work in twenty-two books dealing with both language and topography as well as with history. ).

Vedel died on 13 February 1616 in Ribe.