Amblett in a 17th-century Danish manuscript illustration
Amleth (Old Norse: Amlóði; Latinized as Amlethus) is a figure in a medieval Scandinavian legend, the direct inspiration of the character of Prince Hamlet, the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The chief authority for the legend of Amleth 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.[1] Saxo's version is supplemented by Latin and vernacular compilations from a much later date. In all versions, prince Amleth (Amblothæ) is the son of Horvendill (Orwendel), king of the Jutes. It has often been assumed that the story is ultimately derived from an Old Icelandic poem, but no such poem has been found; the extant Icelandic versions, known as the Ambales-saga, or Amloda-saga are considerably later than Saxo.[2] Amleth's name is not mentioned in Old-Icelandic regnal lists before Saxo.[3] Only the 15th-century Sagnkrønike from Stockholm may contain some older elements.
^Chisholm 1911, p. 894.
^Gollancz, Israel (1898). Hamlet in Iceland: Being the Icelandic Romantic Ambales Saga (1926 ed.). London: David Nutt. p. 67. OCLC 465745856.
^Anthony Faulkes, 'The Earliest Icelandic Genealogies and Regnal Lists', in: Saga-Book 29 (2005), p. 115-119.
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