the two most popular candidates for written works that may have influenced saxo, however, are the anonymous scandinavian "saga of hrolf kraki" and the roman legend of brutus, which is recorded in two separate latin works. in "saga of hrolf kraki", the murdered king has two sons—hroar and helgi—who assume the names of ham and hráni for concealment. they spend most of the story in disguise, rather than feigning madness, though ham does act childishly at one point to deflect suspicion. the sequence of events differs from shakespeare's as well.