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The ever present Ellen, who had never herself given a thought to the unseen, brought Pelle face to face with infinity. While all this was going on within him, they sang one Sunday during the prison service Grundtvig's hymn, "The former days have passed away."
It was one of Grundtvig's hymns in 32 thirty-two verses. I resigned myself to my fate with stoicism. At the beginning I kept myself awake, but the endless repetitions had a soporific effect. Little by little I became as stupid as a medium. When we had at last got through with all the verses, Bjoernson said: 'Isn't that fine.
Being sent to the University of Copenhagen, he chose to study Icelandic in order to read the ancient sagas, English to read Shakespeare, and German to read Goethe. This studious youth was most patriotic, and the poetry of his country appealed to him especially. Grundtvig's poems were for the people, the beloved Jutland moors and Nature generally his theme.
The ever present Ellen, who had never herself given a thought to the unseen, brought Pelle face to face with infinity. While all this was going on within him, they sang one Sunday during the prison service Grundtvig's hymn, "The former days have passed away."
The spirit which pervades the schools was influential in Danish agriculture, as expressed in the title of Grundtvig's best known hymn, "The Country Church Bells." Under such an influence as this has the agricultural life of Denmark taken the lead over its urban and manufacturing life. The modifying influence of husbandry upon the church and its teaching is illustrated in the following incident.
As this survey of the literature of France was also intended to guide me with regard to the Danish, I groped my way forward in the following manner: I. Romanticism. Grundtvig's Scenes from the Lives of the Warriors of the North likewise owes all its value to the Edda and the Sagas. Oehlenschlaeger's Aladdin is the Northern pendant to Hugo's Les Orientales.
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