Anders Sørensen Vedel

Anders Sørensen Vedel (1542–1616) was a Danish priest and historian. Born in Vejle, in 1562 he accompanied Tycho Brahe on his European tour as tutor, and became priest at Copenhagen Castle in 1568.

Encouraged by Peder Oxe, he translated Saxo Grammaticus's Latin chronicle Gesta Danorum into Danish, publishing Den danske Krønicke in 1575. Appointed royal historian in 1584, he failed to complete a continuation of Saxo, but his Hundredvisebogen of 1591, a hundred Danish ballads, preserved the older Danish tradition. He died at Ribe on 13 February 1616.