قراءة كتاب Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark

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Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark

Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark

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II Reformation Hymnody 11
III Kingo’s Childhood and Youth 21
IV Kingo, the Hymnwriter 31
V Kingo’s Psalmbook 41
VI Kingo’s Church Hymns 44
VII Kingo’s Later Years 51
VIII Brorson’s Childhood and Youth 59
IX Brorson, the Singer of Pietism 65
X Brorson’s Swan Song 84
XI Grundtvig’s Early Years 93
XII The Lonely Defender of the Bible 103
XIII The Living Word 112
XIV Grundtvig, the Hymnwriter 121
XV Grundtvig’s Hymns 128
XVI Grundtvig’s Later Years 150
XVII Other Danish Hymnwriters 161

Chapter One Early Danish Hymnody

Danish hymnody, like that of other Protestant countries, is largely a child of the Reformation. The Northern peoples were from ancient times lovers of song. Much of their early history is preserved in poetry, and no one was more honored among them than the skjald who most skillfully presented their thoughts and deeds in song. Nor was this love of poetry lost with the transition from paganism to Christianity. The splendid folk songs of the Middle Ages prove conclusively that both the love of poetry and the skill in writing it survived into the new age. One can only wonder what fine songs the stirring advent of Christianity might have produced among a people so naturally gifted in poetry if the church had encouraged rather than discouraged this native gift.

But the Church of Rome evinced little interest in the ancient ways of the people among whom she took root. Her priests

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