Editing Axel Olrik (section)

===Mediaeval historiography and culture===
Olrik's Ph.D. dissertation, ''Forsøg på en tvedeling af kilderne til Sakses oldhistorie'' (''"Attempts at a two-part division of the sources for Saxo's history of the Danes"''), was on the sources of [[Saxo Grammaticus]]' Latin history of the Danes, ''[[Gesta Danorum]]''. Based on the presence or absence of [[West Norse]] names and familiarity with West Norse geography and with material in pre-existing Icelandic historical works, he believed it was possible to distinguish passages in which Saxo had drawn on Norwegian and Icelandic sources and those where he had used native Danish traditions.<ref name=DBL/><ref name=Salmonsen/> This work led him to the view that the religious, heroic and historical traditions of the different Scandinavian peoples had already diverged by the [[Viking Age]], and he sought to trace the origins, development and regional variation of individual works and concepts.<ref name=DBL/> He published many articles on [[Scandinavian religion]], onomastics, and related subjects, including an interpretation of the images on the [[Golden Horns of Gallehus]] which was published in 1918, after his death,<ref name=Salmonsen/> studies of [[Ragnarök]], and a book on Scandinavian paganism in the Viking Age, ''Nordisk Åndsliv i Vikingetid og tidlig Middelalder'', all of which were revised and completed by his student [[Hans Ellekilde]] and published in 1926 and 1951 as ''Nordens Gudeverden''.<ref name=DBL/>