# Kall-Rasmussen Fragment

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The **Kall-Rasmussen Fragment** is a [parchment](/source/Parchment) page from c. 1275. It is one of the four fragments remaining, or early copy of, the original [Saxo](/source/Saxo_Grammaticus)'s [Gesta Danorum](/source/Gesta_Danorum). Its size is about 19x11cm. It consists of two pages with four written sides.

## History

Found in 1855 by *M. N. C. Kall Rasmussen* in the Danish [Geheime-archive](/source/Danish_National_Archives) (Danish National Archives), where it was used as staple-list on [Kronborg](/source/Kronborg) Castle's [cadastre](/source/Cadastre) of 1627–1628. It is now owned by the [Royal Library](/source/Danish_Royal_Library) of [Copenhagen](/source/Copenhagen). It has the Royal Library signature of *Ny kgl. Saml. Fol. 570*.

Correspond to page 320–324 in [Peter Erasmus Müller](/source/Peter_Erasmus_M%C3%BCller) Latin version of *Gesta Danorum* from 1839 or page 181.17 – 184.16 in [Jørgen Olrik](/source/J%C3%B8rgen_Olrik) & H. Ræder's Latin version of *Gesta Danorum* from 1931.

## See also

- [Angers Fragment](/source/Angers_Fragment)
- [Lassen Fragment](/source/Lassen_Fragment)
- [Plesner Fragment](/source/Plesner_Fragment)

## References

- *Apoteker Sibbernsens Saxobog*, C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen, 1927.

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