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En højskolevinter. Elevdagbog fra provisorieårene i 1880erne udgivet af Roar Skovmand
Authors: Grosen Uffe
Published: September 2020

A Winter at a Folk High-School.The Diary of a Pupil, from the “Provisional Period” of the 1880’s. (Ed. By Roar Skovmand). Reviewed by Uffe Grosen.Hitherto, in the literature about the history of the folk high-school, there has been no diary to give us clear evidence about the folk high-school as experienced here and now by one of its pupils. The present diary provides us with source material of this very kind, the author being, moreover, an intelligent, mature, and independent mind, a young qualified carpenter, who took an active part as a leader in the gymnastic movement in Stevns, his native district, and joined the winter course of 1884-85 at Vallekilde Folk High-School. He was attracted first of all by Ernst Trier’s strong personality and by Andreas Bentsen, the leader of the artisan department. The diary reveals a listener who is both deeply moved and critical. He refuses to be swept along spiritually, and remains his own self, even when seas run high. The diary was kept in the home of the author Niels Nielsen until his death in 1919. After the death of his wife in 1946 it came into the possession of his daughter Ellen Karlshøj, who died in 1968. It has now, through the agency of the Institut for dansk Skolehistorie, been edited by Prof. Roar Skovmand, and no editor, it may be safely said, could possibly be better qualified for the task. The diary gives an authentic impression of the way in which the pupils were influenced by Ernst Trier. However overwhelming his personality may be said to have been, he appealed to the love of independence in the young pupils. In the preface the editor rightly refers to a letter from Ernst Trier expressing the wish that his views may not be “glued on to the pupils” but that they will be “roused to reflection, to form their own opinions freely and independently”.
Årbog for Dansk Skolehistorie, 1967
Authors: Grosen Uffe
Published: September 2020

Yearbook for dansk Skolehistorie, 1967Reviewed by Uffe Grosen.Selskab for dansk Skolehistorie was formed in 1966 and aims at publishing important contributions to the elucidation of school history in the wide sense of this word. Research in this field comes within the province of the Institut for dansk Skolehistorie, established in 1965 in close connection with “Danmarks Lærerhøjskole”. In the first year-book ( 1967) of the Society dr. phil. Roar Skovmand gives an account of the inherent problems of a research which has since 1899 been less than adequate. In this connection he discusses the critical analysis of interviews with people who are still alive. In a picture of the Danish school Grundtvig next to Georg Brandes will play a role similar to that of Plato and Aristotle in the famous “School of Athens” by Raphael. The reviewer misses some clearly drawn portraits here, however, for instance of Ludv. Chr. Müller and P. J. M. Vinther, portraits which might contribute to a heightened interest in the inner life of the school. - In a survey of the contents of the “Stiftsmuseum” of Lolland Falster pertaining to educational history the museum keeper Else-Marie Boyhus gives an excellent illustration of the aims of the Society. - How the Swedish Society Föreningen för svensk undervisningshistoria, established in 1920, meant a stimulus to the formation of the Danish Society is the subject of an article by dr. theol. Knud Eyvin Bugge, who is also the editor of a part of Grundtvig’s curious early work, the comedy Skoleholderne from the summer of 1802. - Skolen for livet ( 1963), K. E. Bugge’s thesis for the doctorate, is reviewed in an article by William Michelsen, a theoretical treatment of the subject “Education and Outlook”. - The centre of gravity of the year-book is the account, by mag. art. Kai Hørby, of Grundtvig’s struggle to establish “The High-School in Soer”, which all but succeded and yet came to nothing. As the reviewer points out the management of the High-School was to be a copy of the absolute rule of the country, but with an advisory organ attached, and Grundtvig expected it to be attended by the brightest and maturest minds among Danish youth, students with an urge to receive education and with a sense of responsibility. — An article dealing with “The Political Debate about the Connection between Board School and Grammar School”, by cand. mag. Vagn Skovgaard-Petersen, illustrates how the Grundtvigian point of view, a self-contained children’s school, suffered defeat in spite of very capable spokesmen. The author concludes with the important remark, however, that Grundtvigian efforts on behalf of the undivided children’s school were continued after 1903—“as we know not unsuccessfully”. Readers will be looking forward to see whether this fine year-book is going to have equally worthy successors.
Niels Kofoed: Myte og intellekt
Authors: Michelsen William
Published: September 2020

Niels Kofoed, Myte og intellekt. Munksgaardserien no. 24Rev. by William MichelsenThe primary purpose of this book is to place Grundtvig and Kierkegaard in modern European culture, and thereby offering a closer analysis of their connection with romanticism, seen in the light of Giambattista Vico’s view of history, according to which three epochs are cyclically repeated, viz. those of imagination, reason, and a “living union” of reason, imagination, and sensibility. Moreover, Kofoed considers the two Danish authors in the light of C. G. Jung’s psychoanalysis, in which respect he bases his work on Hjalmar Sundén, the religious psychologist (Religionen och rollerna3 Stockholm, 1959) and on an interpretation of “Nyaars-Morgen” that comes close to Jørgen Elbek’s. – Even though the application of a cyclical view of history on Grundtvig and Kierkegaard, of all men, must be looked upon with skepticism, the book does contain valuable clues to an assessment of Grundtvig’s poetry.
Von einem »Echten Deutsch« und von den »Deutschen Sprachen des Herzens«
Authors: Nägele Horst
Published: September 2020

Om »ægte tysk« og om de tyske »hjertesprog«Af Horst Nägele
Intepreters of Luther
Authors: Mortensen Viggo
Published: September 2020

Interpreters of Luther. Essays in Honor of Wilhelm PauckReviewed by Viggo MortensenThe reason why this book is mentioned here is that it includes articles on Grundtvig’s and Kierkegaard’s views on Luther. A paper on Grundtvig and Luther is written by Ernest D. Nielsen, President of Grand View College, Iowa, who gives an introduction to Grundtvig’s thoughts on human life and Christianity by comparing them with Luther’s relatively well known opinions. The account is based on Den christelige Børnelærdom and Den danske Statskirke upartisk betragtet ( 1834), an^ inspiration from Kaj Thaning’s interpretation of Grundtvig is obvious, but the article does not claim to be more than an introduction to Grundtvig. A deeper analysis of the difference between Grundtvig’s and Luther’s views on man would be extremely important, however. The fact that there is a difference has been shown by Thaning (Menneske først, p. 661 ff.), and through genetico-historical investigations Michelsen has shown what this difference consists in as far as the conception of history is concerned (Tilblivelsen af Grundtvigs historiesyn, p. 127 ff.).In Denmark there is an increasing dislike against mentioning both Kierkegaard and Luther as one’s spiritual ancestors; K. E. Løgstrup is more inclined to mention Grundtvig and Luther because of the importance both of them attach to the Creation.—But are Kierkegaard’s and Luther’s views on Christianity compatible? This has never been documented in detail. Up till now scholars have contended themselves with elucidating what Kierkegaard thought about Luther, and it has been demonstrated that, gradually, Kierkegaard became more and more critical against Luther. The exception to this general tendency is Johs. Sløk’s article in Kierkegaardiana II, 1957. Only rarely has the question been analysed in a systematic way. Ernest B. Koenker’s article in the volume under review is no exception. The author is a professor of history at the University of South California. He demonstrates that the decisive points of controversy are their opinion about the Passion and the paradox of faith. According to Kierkegaard the Passion originates in the clash between the temporal and the eternal, i. e. the absolute that is the central concept in Kierkegaard’s conception of Christianity. Koenker’s essay does not claim to be a work of original research, but is does give a precise formulation of the questions to be dealt with in future research.
Det internationale Grundtvig-seminar »A Century after Grundtvig« 13.-19. august 1972
Authors: Michelsen William
Published: September 2020

The international Grundtvig-seminar »A Century after Grundtvig« the 13th-19th August 1972By William Michelsen
The International People's College at Elsinore
Authors: Manniche Peter
Published: September 2020

De internationale folks gymnasium i HelsingørAf Peter Manniche
Grundtvig, The Danish Folk High School and the Developing Countries
Authors: Bjerre Sven Erik
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig, de danske folkehøjskoler og udviklingslandeneAf Sven Erik Bjerre
Grundtvig som europæer
Authors: Michelsen William
Published: September 2020

On Grundtvig as a EuropeanBy William MichelsenThe purpose of this short article is to point out that Grundtvig’s ideas about nationality problems in Europe were totally different from the Swiss blueprint for a solution, which M. A. Goldschmidt favoured; this is what lies behind the acerbity of Grundtvig’s answer to Goldschmidt’s provocative article »National« in the latter’s periodical »Nord og Syd« of October 1849.Already in 1838 Grundtvig had opposed the idea of a Scandinavian federation. And on 14 March 1848, in his first speech about the Schleswig question (printed in Grundtvig’s periodical »Danskeren« and quoted in the above article by Morten Bredsdorff), Grundtvig explicitly demanded an agreement for the German, Danish and Frisian minorities in the Duchy of Schleswig (Southern Jutland). In a subsequent article in his periodical Grundtvig developed this idea, thus going even further than the legislation concerning the national rights of minorities after the First and Second World Wars. He did not, on the other hand, during the war of 1848-50 advocate a partition of Southern Jutland in accordance with a plebiscite. It was not until after the loss of Southern Jutland and the Peace of Prague in 1866, the fifth clause of which secured this right for Southern Jutlanders, that its was also mentioned by Grundtvig. His articles in »Danskeren« show altogether how realistic his ideas were regarding the national question in Southern Jutland.In a postscript it is emphasized that Grundtvig never formulated a sentence such as: »You are a Jew, what are you doing among us?« This is only Bredsdorff’s - understandable, but given the context far too harsh - interpretation of Grundtvig’s words. What Grundtvig opposed and protested against in his reply to Goldschmidt in 1849 was - as in all his speeches, songs and articles on the nationality question - »everything that alienates a people from itself« (including the Jewish people), that is, the academic, internationally-orientated alienation of the great majority of the people.Morten Bredsdorff replies briefly that everyone can judge for himself what Grundtvig meant by the words quoted. To him, the essence of the matter is the impression that they made on the sensitive Jew Goldschmidt.
Grundtvig-litteratur 1971-1973
Authors: Jørgensen Aage
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig literature 1971-1973. A bibliographical overviewBy Aage Jørgensen
Jørgen Elbek: Grundtvigs atten prøveår
Authors: Albeck Gustav
Published: September 2020

Jørgen Elbek: Grundtvigs atten prøveår. Published by G. M. T., 1974Reviewed by Gustav AlbeckJorgen Elbek’s monograph is a very concentrated analysis of Grundtvig’s development during the period from 1805 to 1823/24, when he wrote his major poetical work Nyaars-Morgen. The monograph is based on an intimate knowledge of the works of Grundtvig and the literature on him. In his condensed account the author reasons both logically and subjectively at the same time, which does not make it easy for the reader to persuade himself of the necessity for the many different phases of the analysis.Many points invite contradiction and the conclusion, in which the author paves the way for a massive depreciation of Grundtvig’s literary production after 1824, will hardly pass unchallenged.All things considered, this is, however, a piece of work that contains original and stimulating thoughts and which will give experts on Grundtvig much to ponder over.
Christa Kühnhold: Der Begriff des Sprunges und der Weg des Sprachdenkens
Authors: Toftdahl Hellmut
Published: September 2020

Der Begriff des Sprunges und der W eg des Sprachdenkens (lit. ‘The Concept of the Spring And the Method of Linguistic Thought’) by Christa Kühnhold, Berlin - New York 1975Reviewed by Hellmut ToftdahlThe reviewer recommends this doctorate on Kierkegaard to all those interested in Grundtvig, partly on account of its method, partly because it presents the side of Kierkegaard that is in agreement with Grundtvig, namely, the clash with abstract speculation. Christa Kühnhold shows that where dialectics end, Kierkegaard draws on the resources latent in the nuances of the Danish language. Her understanding of Kierkegaard’s vocabulary reminds one of Grundtvig’s experience with language. She has collected material on such concepts as: reality, truth, suffering, Spring, beginning, conversion, and guilt. Her semantic approaches are supplemented by her knowledge of linguistic history and mythology.
Årsberetning 1975-1976
Authors: Michelsen William
Published: September 2020

Report on the Grundtvig Society's company 1975-1976By William Michelsen
Rettelse til Grundtvig-Studier 1976
Authors: Thodberg Christian
Published: September 2020

Correction to Grundtvig Studies 1976
»Odin og Saga« genfundet. En Grundtvig-tekst fra 1810
Authors: Lundgreen-Nielsen Flemming
Published: September 2020

‘Odin and Saga’ Rediscovered. A Grundtvig manuscript from 1810published by Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen.‘Odin and Saga’ was the name of a journal that never saw the light. The text published here is the one for which subscriptions were invited. Steen Johansen regretted its loss in his Bibliography of the Works of N.F.S. Grundtvig (vol I p. 50 and vol IV p. 11). It was found in 10 copies amongst the papers left by F.C. Sibbern and is here printed with an introduction and notes. The plan was to publish a journal of philosophy, poetry and history with 4 issues annually each of 190 pages. Sibbern was to contribute a prizewinning essay on the principle and nature of philosophy and another essay on the principle behind a philosophical ‘doctrine of happiness’ (eudaimonism). In addition there was to be ‘A historical character sketch of Schiller as poet’, ‘An inquiry into the freedom of the human soul’ and an essay ‘Concerning the moral principle’, the authors of which were not named.Lundgreen-Nielsen assumes that Sibbern and Grundtvig have drafted the journal together but finds that the finished product bears rather Grundtvig’s stamp in its mode of expression. History and poetry are considered from a universal, historical angle, and the section on philosophy does not touch on the relationship between that particular science and Christianity or theology. Grundtvig has not yet become the severe judge of the life of the spirit with a Bible in his hand. Lundgreen-Nielsen attributes the only limited interest in the project to its failure to make its mark as part of the national religious revival. The journal ‘Danne-Virke’ 1816- 19, on the other hand, gathered its diversified contents around the concept of Danishness, most likely owing to Grundtvig’s own development between 1810-20.
Vartovbogen 1978
Authors: Mortensen Viggo
Published: September 2020

The Vartov-book 1978Reviewed  by Viggo Mortensen
Årsberetning 1977-1978
Authors: Michelsen William
Published: September 2020

Report on the Grundtvig Society's company 1977-1978By William Michelsen
Fortællingen i fokus. Vartovbogen 1981
Authors: Mortensen Viggo
Published: September 2020

Focus on the NarrativeThe Vartov Book. Edited by Asta Poulsen, Jørgen Kristensen and E. Jakob Petersen. 168 pp. Published Kirkeligt Samfunds Forlag. Reviewed by Viggo Mortensen. byThis review is also largely in the form o f an informative article showing how Grundvig’s authorship is still an inspiration, not only within the traditional Grundtvig circles but also in the current debate on Church politics and cultural affairs.The editors o f The Vartov Book have elected to centre their essays on a view expressed in a theological dissertation that was presented at Århus University in 1981, in which major areas o f Grundtvig’s theology are interpreted on the basis that “Christianity at heart is a narrative” (Sv. Bjerg: The Basic Christian Narrative, Århus 1981, cf. A . Pontoppidan Thyssen in Danish Theological Journal 1/1982).Amongst the many essays in The Vartov Book that in various ways point to the value o f narrating reality - before, that is, philosophy, politics, behavioural science and statistics had alienated us from the world - Viggo Mortensen singles out Peter Balslev-Clausen’s treatment o f Grundtvig’s poem, “Thou faded leaves, thou cool wind” (I falmede blade, du kølige vind). This poem, now included in the supplement to the Danish Hymnbook - “46 Hymns”, is seen in an authoritative analysis as an element in Grundtvig’s wrestling with the basic conditions o f existence. In fact it is these basic conditions that are the subject o f all the essays.
Grundtvig-Selskabets årsberetning
Authors: Thodberg Christian
Published: September 2020

Report on the Grundtvig Society's companyBy Christian Thodberg
Skrifter udgivet af Grundtvig-Selskabet
Authors: Albeck Gustav , Michelsen William
Published: September 2020

Works published by the Grundtvig Society
Forord
Authors: Albeck Gustav
Published: September 2020

PrefaceBy the editors
Myter og mundtlighed
Authors: Nielsen Vilhelm
Published: September 2020

Myths and Word of MouthJens Peter Ægidius: Braga Talks, Norse Myths and Narrative Myths in the Danish Tradition (to 1910). Odense 1985.Reviewed by Vilhelm NielsenThe title Braga Talks is taken from Grundtvig, who in 1843-44 gave 25 lectures under this heading; these are treated in detail by Ægidius. The phrase has since been misunderstood, however, and misused to mean words without content or basis in reality. Braga, the god of poetry, has been forgotten and the emphasis has been transferred to the word talk. The title of this book expresses a slipping from the mythology itself into its narrative reproduction. While working on the preface and the introduction to Norse Mythology (1832) Grundtvig made the discovery (as Thaning has proved) that myths are oral. This was one of the slow discoveries he made, and could have been made the main theme of this book, which says little that is new about Grundtvig’s use of his sources. It does, however, offer a great deal on the narrative tradition in use at the grundtvigian folk high schools, which has been revived in this century by Aage Møller, a clergyman and high school teacher. Unfortunately this phase has not been treated, as the book stops at 1910. Ægidius has, however, included Ludvig Christian Møller, the narrative historian, who was Grundtvig’s disciple and who even before him gave historical talks for both men and women at Borch’s hostel in the 1830s. His narration of myths and legends was only his introduction to narratives from medieval history. The other major characters in Ægidius’ book are Christian Flor and Ludvig Schrøder. Flor was originally Professor of Danish at Kiel but became principal of the first Danish folk high school at Rødding in 1844. Schr.der became principal of Askov folk high school, which from 1864 onwards carried the stamp of his personality. Ægidius claims, and the reviewer underlines this new information, that Schrøder did not give up teaching the myths, even though from 1884 onwards he went on to talk about Denmark’s natural resources. Unfortunately we have only comprehensive notes to the lectures but no myth narratives in written form from his side. His lectures on myth were apparently not the same from year to year, but they were wellprepared and reformulated every time, a necessary precondition for their being both “animated” and mythically “sound”, not in fact lectures but “proper stories”, as Grundtvig says in 1838. The reviewer looks forward to a continuation of the book to include an assessment of Aage Møller’s attempt to revive the tradition — and possibly as a guideline for the most recent trends.
Socialetikken og det grundtvigske
Authors: Mortensen Viggo
Published: September 2020

Social Ethics and the Grundtvigian ElementVartov Book 1984Reviewed by Viggo MortensenThe reviewer is surprised to find in this book the related problems that he knows about from the area of ethics concerned with inter-personal relationships in institutions and societies. But he adds that grundtvigianism has made a crucial contribution to the restructuring of our society, also in an ethical direction. Grundtvigianism, however, was linked politically to liberalism, which often leaves moral principles and norms hanging in mid-air. The reviewer therefore regards the newly-aroused interest in narrative as valuable, for “the moral is found in the myth”, and there are both good and less good examples of this in the yearbook. There is high praise for Finn Jacobi’s brilliant article, “Can History Replace Myth?”, a question which he himself answers in the negative. Instead myth has been repressed, and now exercises its influence from undercover. The reviewer likewise commends the article “On Children with Behavioural Disorders” by Harald Rasmussen, a school psychiatrist, for its socio-ethical content. A further article in this area, by Dr Svend Andersen, is concerned with biotechnology and human worth. Naturally Grundtvig would never have used the word “socio-ethical”, but the idea was nonetheless part of his thought and is absolutely indispensable now.
Det umuliges kunst
Authors: Haarder Andreas
Published: September 2020

The Art of the ImpossibleA Grundtvig Anthology. Selections from the writings of N. F. S. Grundtvig.Translated by Edward Broadbridge and Niels Lyhne Jensen.General Editor: Niels Lyhne Jensen. James Clarke, Cambridge & Centrum, Viby 1984.Reviewed by Professor Andreas Haarder, Odense UniversityHow can Grundtvig ever be translated? Professor Haarder considers it well-nigh impossible, which does not mean, however, that the attempt is not worth making. But he has some criticism of various things which need correcting for a later edition. In particular the translation of the words folkeh.jskole and Norden and the use of different terms for the same concept. He would prefer “folk high school” and “the North”, “Nordic” or “Norse”, and he thinks that the word “Scandinavia” should be avoided. The reason is that it is difficult to understand what a folk high school actually is, and that the Nordic past for Grundtvig included the English. The term “folk high school” is used elsewhere, for example in the Danish Institute’s book on Grundtvig. Professor Haarder praises the idea and the planning of the book, but he also notes too many printing errors and deficiencies in the notes.In Haarder’s opinion the most successful translations are of the sermons and the simplest songs. The selection from Norse Mythology reads well in English, which surprises him somewhat because of Grundtvig’s very intricate style. Some of that inspiration is missing from The School for Life, in both the original and the translation, but the text is pioneer work and worth including. As “a particular type of prose” he finds the extracts from Elementary Christian Teachings also readable in English. With regard to the poetry, he agrees with the editor that “It has not been Grundtvig’s good fortune to find a translator who combines a grasp of his vision with a gift of imagery matching his.” Andreas Haarder ends with a word of thanks for the step that has been taken with this anthology of Grundtvig in English.
Modtagne bøger
Authors: Albeck Gustav , Michelsen William
Published: September 2020

Recieved books
Frederik Nielsen: N. F. S. Grundtvigip Tussiusiai kalaallisuunngiortitat. Nuuk 1985
Authors: Michelsen Signe
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig in GreenlandicN. F. S. Grundtvigip Tussiusiai Kalaallisungortitat, Nuuk 1985By Signe MichelsenIn 1985 the Greenland publishers Pilersuiffik (Nuuk/Godth.b) published a selection of Grundtvig’s hymns and songs translated into Greenlandic by the poet Frederik Nielsen. His translations represent a bold and many-sided choice, covering both the hymns and the bible-story songs as well as the fatherland songs. Translating Grundtvig is terribly difficult. Translating Grundtvig into Greenlandic is a noble feat. A language whose structure is completely different from Danish: a poly-synthetic language whose words consist of so many elements (stems and affixes) that a single word can constitute a whole sentence sequence.The background to Frederik Nielsen’s translations of Grundtvig is his own inspiration from youth. Nielsen was born in 1905 and has been a significant poet in Greenland as well as an educationist and a politician. From 1956-67 he was head of the Greenland Radio. He was the first Greenlander to graduate from a Danish college of education (T.nder), and during his time at college he lived with a family strongly influenced by Grundtvig. The decisive moment came when he took part in a grundtvigian meeting in 1927, where for the first time he heard the hymn: All Creatures that were Given Wings (Alt, hvad som fuglevinger fik). He writes of the experience in his memoirs: “That was when I had the conviction that grundtvigian Christianity was the form of Christianity and the Christian way of life that best agreed with me.” In 1934 on the recommendation of Knud Rasmussen, he had had his novel Tuumarse (Thomas) published in Greenlandic. He himself translated it into Danish in 1980. He has since written a number of novels and poems, some of the latter having been translated into Danish. He is still a productive writer and has also sought to inspire his compatriots as a translator, among other things of a selection of Danish poems from 1980.As examples of his Grundtvig translations two are singled out here: All Creatures that were Given Wings and O , Christian Lot! (O, Christelighed). They are published in a retro-translation to Danish, but the original texts to the hymns in question are printed in Greenlandic.It is clear that there are ideas and concepts in Grundtvig that are impossible to translate. On the other hand the Greenlandic language enforces a greater simplicity than in Grundtvig. This can actually lead to very beautiful passages, as in the two last stanzas of O , Christian Lot!. They contain the essentials and express them with spontaneity and intensity. The Greenlandic poet, Kristian Olsen, reviewing Frederik Nielsen’s hymn translations, writes: “Having read them through Grundtvig’s many word-pictures, he has somehow imbued them with Grundtvig’s spirit.”
II. Forfatterregister
Authors: Albeck Gustav
Published: September 2020

Author registerBy Gustav Albeck
Grundtvig-Selskabets årsberetning for 1987
Authors: Thodberg Christian
Published: September 2020

Report on the Grundtvig Society's companyBy Christian Thodberg
Grundtvig og teatret. Et par bemærkninger i tilknytning til Robert Neiidams Afhandling
Authors: Johansen Steen
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig and the Theatre. By Steen Johansen. In 1940 the historian of the theatre, Robert Neiiendam, wrote a brief study of Grundtvig and the theatre — by which in the main he meant the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen —, and in 1950 he has published it in expanded form in the book: “Gennem mange Aar” (During Many Years). Here Mr. Neiiendam has brought together the very few facts that are known about Grundtvig’s relation to the theatre, dramatic art, and actors — a relation which may be described as essentially negative as far as Grundtvig was concerned. (It is not a question here of Grundtvig’s relation to the drama as literature or poetry, though Mr. Neiiendam might have said a little more about this subject.) A distinctive exception to this is to be found in the appearance of the youthful Grundtvig as an amateur actor on two occasions during his student days (1800—03). Until now the only occasion known of was the one when Grundtvig appeared in a play (“Brevet” i. e. “ The Letter”) written by himself; but it has now become known that he also appeared in a little play by the well*known Norwegian*Danish author P. A. Heiberg. This knowledge, derived from an unpublished diary of Jacob Steenberg, who was one of Grundtvig’s fellow*students, contributes not alone to clarifying several points in Grundtvig’s diary, but also to a better understanding of an (unpublished) play by Grundtvig, dating from his student period.
Kristologien i Grundtvigs salmer
Authors: Nielsen Jakob Fløe
Published: September 2020

The Christology in the Hymns of GrundtvigBy Jakob Fløe NielsenThe intention of the paper is to show the coherent and complete Christological conception that lies behind the many specific christological expressions in Grundtvig’s hymns, a christology that was never thoroughly elaborated by Grundtvig himself. The superior christological scheme is the descent and abasement of the Son of God from heaven to the land of death and the following exaltation to divine glory. Grundtvig’s strong emphasis upon man’s preserved image of God in spite of the Fall has, however, the consequence that the exaltation mentioned becomes a threefold presentation: 1. the resurrection and ascension of Christ in person repeating itself in history, 2. Christ passing through the seven leading churches of Christianity in his Word (especially in the words of the sacraments) towards the final transfiguration of the world, and 3. at the same time Christ fulfilling his own exaltation in the form of "the hope of glory" (Colossians 1.27) within each baptized. The background to this third aspect is Grundtvig’s concept of the fact that Christ offers himself to the faith in the words at baptism and Eucharist. In spite of the fall he here melts together with the preserved image of God within the believer. So at the same time as the fallen human being is reborn through baptism as the child of God, Christ is born as the tender hope of glory in the believer in the meeting of the word of the Holy Spirit and the human faith. The growth of Christ within the believing baptized is identical with that person’s transfiguration, as man’s destination from creation is realized: to be in the image of his God.In this process the Eucharist plays a decisive part. Where the words of institution are heard and believed, it signifies Christ’s victory over Satan within the baptized, and is also an expression of Christ inspiring his heavenly love into man to strengthen and glorify his earthly and powerless love. Thus, the christology in Grundtvig’s hymns in addition to being a description of a past event also becomes the rendering of the ongoing struggle between God and Satan in history and within the life of each Christian.
Den oldengelske digtning og Grundtvig
Authors: Noack Bent
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig and Anglo-Saxon PoetryBy Bent NoackGrundtvig’s work on Anglo-Saxon poetry and his use of it is, in many respects, an important part of his legacy to his people and his church. It was the historian Grundtvig who, at the beginning of his career, used the Beowulf Poem in his mythological studies and both welcomed and criticized Thorkelin’s 1815 edition of it. His work on Beowulf went on, almost till the end of his life, with translations, reproduction and, finally, an edition in 1861.His journeys to England in 1829 to 1831 also had historical and mythological studies as their main purpose. But soon Grundtvig became aware that England possessed an important group of manuscripts of biblical and religious poetry, the Exeter Book being the most outstanding. He planned an edition, in England, of ’the most valuable Anglo-Saxon manuscripts’, as he said in his ’prospectus’ for a subscription. Part of the plan was eventually carried out by Benjamin Thorpe, but Grundtvig’s work was not done for nothing: many of his readings and emendations are still maintained. In 1840, he published an edition of the ’Phoenix’ with introduction and translation.As a hymn writer Grundtvig reproduced pieces of Anglo-Saxon poetry; his collected hymns contain eight reproductions, and two of them are still among the most cherished of his hymns.
Ris og ros
Authors: Albeck Gustav
Published: September 2020

Commendation and CorrectionJens Lyster: On Grundtvig’s "Sleep Soundly; Little One" and other matters ... In: Hymnological Bulletin, edited by Hymnological Society and Nordic Institute of Hymnology, 18th year, 1989, no. 3.Reviewed by Gustav AlbeckThe writer has found an unnoticed version of Grundtvig’s hymn "Sleep Soundly, Little One" in a prayer-book, edited in 1847 by "an Association of Clergymen and Teachers In Copenhagen". He presents weighty arguments for the assumption that the editors have used an unknown manuscript by Grundtvig himself, an as sumption which evidently makes the text material of the prayer-book worthy of attention. Jens Lyster, therefore, blames the editors of Grundtvig’s Hymnary for the Danish Church, latest edition, that they have failed to draw attention to the existence of the prayer-book and its special text material which is not comprehensive, but with an interpretative perspective. Unfortunately, he allows himself to be induced by this fact to launch
Regin Prenter: A personal Tribute
Authors: Allchin Arthur Macdonald
Published: September 2020

Regin Prenter. En personlig mindeudtalelseAM. Allchin fremhæver i sin nekrolog, hvorledes Regin Prenter var dansk, luthersk teolog, og i .t hermed, uden at der opstod nogen skurrende modsætning, en økumenisk vidtfavnende teolog. Prenter udtrykte i sine afhandlinger med den for ham særegne klarhed synspunkter, der var tro mod hans eget konfessionelle udgangspunkt, og som på samme tid røbede fundamentalt slægtskab med grundtræk fra andre konfessionstraditioner. Dette falder f.eks. i øjnene, når man sammenligner Prenters grundtanker med træk fra den østligeortodokse og den anglikanske kirke (F.D. Maurice og M. Ramsey). Prenters behandling af offermotivet i nadveren fremhæves som et af de mest bemærkelsesværdige eksempler i s. henseende, fremstillet bl.a. i den monumentale lærebog i dogmatik .Skabelse og Genlæsning..Dr. Allchin omtaler endvidere Prenters livslange, personlige forbindelser med England. De begyndte s. tidligt som i 1929, da en gruppe danske teologistuderende (grundlæggerne af Teologisk Oratorium) besøgte det anglikanske klosterfællesskab i Kelham. De fortsattes i 1935, hvor han opholdt sig i Lincoln og knyttede venskab med Michael Ramsey; og de blev videreført indtil de allerseneste år, hvilket Allchin selv havde lejlighed til at drøfte i samtaler med Prenter.Til sidst vises med to teksteksempler fra Prenters sene arbejder, en prædiken fra 1983 og bogen Guds virkelighed., hvordan der hos Prenter bestandig fandtes en liturgisk dimension, der vidnede om sammenhængen mellem bønspraksis og dogmatik, gudstjenestelig lovprisning og teologisk refleksion.Arthur Macdonald Allchin
The Sacred Core of Wisdom of Another Culture
Authors: Allchin Arthur Macdonald
Published: September 2020

Den hellige kerne af visdom af en anden kultur. Steven M. Borish: De levendes land: Den danske folkehøjskole og Danmarks antivoldige vej til modernisering. Blue Dolphin Publishing: Nevada City (California), 1991, xxxiii og 488pp.Anmeldt af A.M. Allchin
Det vingede ord
Authors: Hauge Hans
Published: September 2020

The pithy sayingPeter Baslev-Clausen: THe pithy saying: About N.F.S. Grundtvigs writing of hymns. (Materialecentralen, Copenhagen 1991) 143 sites. Reviewed by Hans Hauge
Langt mere eventyrligt end historisk
Authors: Grell Helge
Published: September 2020

»Langt mere eventyrligt end historisk«Om Grundtvigs forhold til EnglandBy Helge GrellIn a letter to Queen Caroline Amalie, written towards the end of his Englandjoumey in 1843, Grundtvig describes his attitude to England as ’more fantastic than historical’. This expression is only comprehensible when viewed within the tension created by his expectation of finding a receptive forum for his ideas among the English and his subsequent disappointment. The English, whom Grundtvig met, proved un-receptive, not only to his view of universal history, including the central role he allocated to the English people, but also to his ecclesiastical position.The ’fantastic’ i Grundtvig’s attitude to the English is in evidence in his continued insistence on the central importance of England for his view on universal history and in the high hopes he still held for the realisation of his ecclesiastical ideas in England, despite his disappointment and his critical attitude to contemporary English life.Furthermore, Grundtvig’s attitude to England is even more ’fantastic’ when we realize that the contradiction between his expectations of the English and England and his negative experience becomes a deciding factor in his thoughts about the necessary interaction between the spiritual and the material world.
Nornesalen - forskning i spændingsfeltet mellem akademisk tradition og folkelig aktualitet
Authors: Pedersen Kim Arne
Published: September 2020

Nornesalen - Reseaurch in the area of tension between academic tradition and folksiness topicality. Nomesalen. Forskning 1992-1993. Ringe 1993. Lilian Z.llner (red.): Almen Dannelse Folkelig Dannelse Folkelig Livsoplysning. Vejle 1993.Reviewed by Kim Arne Pedersen
Til forståelse af kriserne i Grundtvigs liv
Authors: Balslev-Clausen Peter
Published: September 2020

To understanding the crisis in Grundtvig's life. Ulrich Vogel: Bankede p. ved Paradis. N.F.S. Grundtvigs kriseoplevelser. Anis. K.benhavn 1993. 144 s.Reviewed by Peter Balslev-Clausen
Om Troen og den Indflydelse på paa Jordlivet eller om Kirke og Stat. Utrykt tekst af N.F.S. Grundtvig
Authors: Pedersen Kim Arne
Published: September 2020

About Faith and the Influence on earthly life or on church and state.By Kim Arne Pedersen
Elementer i Grundtvigs politiske tænkning
Authors: Damsholt Tine
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig’s Political TheoriesBy Tine DamsholtGrundtvig’s positive view of the Danish absolute monarchy has often been a problematic issue in today’s understanding of Grundtvig’s political ideas. It is a common view that in 1848 Grundtvig turned a political somersault, suddenly becoming a democrat after being a fervent adherent of absolutism. Quite a few have wanted either to see a break in Grundtvig’s political view or tried to explain away his apparently »undemocratic« attitude. However, if one examines Grundtvig’s basic political opinions, it is possible to establish a continuity in his political view. It is possible to see his apparent change of attitude as an expression of inevitable consequences of his idea of what were the central democratic elements in relation to the changing political situations.The analysis of Grundtvig’s view of democracy and representative government must take its point of departure in the political tradition that Grundtvig had grown up in. The ideal concept of the 18th century of absolute monarchy as the interpreter of the people’s voice is an essential background for the understanding of Grundtvig’s praise of Danish absolute monarchy in the period before and after the Danish constitution came into effect.Grundtvig’s political ideal can be epitomized as a unity of the two concepts of the King’s hand and the people’s voice, i.e. an absolute King listening to the people’s voice as it finds expression in a free debate, in writing and in speech, in an enlightened people. The enlightenment of the people is crucial to Grundtvig, and the gist of his criticism of the French Revolution is that the unenlightened mob assumed power. The folk high school, where the people is enlightened and educated to rise above narrow selfish interests to look at the common good, is thus a central part of Grundtvig’s political universe.Grundtvig also maintained this ideal after the Danish absolute monarchy was abolished in 1848. He claimed that this was the original and therefore the true Danish constitution, thus embracing the national-romantic tradition.
Grundtvig i Kina
Authors: Thøgersen Stig
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig in ChinaBy Stig ThøgersenGrundtvig and the Danish folk high-schools have been known to the Chinese since the beginning of this century. From the late 1920s, the attention of Chinese reformers turned to the rural areas, and »the Danish model« subsequently came to play a major role in the Chinese political discourse as an example of a country that had reached prosperity through education, the cooperative movement, class cooperation, and agricultural development rather than through industrialization and social polarization. A major proponent of Grundtvig’s ideas was Liang Shuming who from 1931 to 1937 headed an experiment with rural reconstruction in Shandong province. Liang was a cultural conservative who advocated economic and technological progress through the establishment of rural communities centred around village schools. The article examines the sources through which Liang and other Chinese learned about Denmark and Grundtvig, and shows how the image of a Danish Utopia was created by a number of enthusiastic supporters of the folk high-school idea, among them Peter Manniche, who visited Liang in Shandong. The relative failure of Liang’s experiment is analyzed in the context of his reception of this idealized image.
Grundtvig teologiske udvikling til omkring affattelsen af »De levendes land«
Authors: Glenthøj Elisabeth Albinus
Published: September 2020

The Development of Grundtvig ’s Theology until about the Time of the Composition of .The Land of the Living. About the Eschatological Tension in the Understanding of the Kingdom of GodBy Elisabeth Albinus GlenthøjIn order to characterize briefly Grundtvig’s ideas about the Kingdom of God, the following statements are crucial: The Kingdom of God will break through visibly at the Second Coming of Christ. Until then the Kingdom is present to Faith and Hope through the Holy Spirit.The tension between the eschatological, visible Kingdom of God and the presence of the Kingdom now is a common theme in Grundtvig’s hymns. This study seeks to trace the development of Grundtvig’s theology towards his fully developed view of the Kingdom of God. The subject of the study is the great hymn, .The Land of the Living., from 1824, which contains beginnings of Grundtvig’s more elaborated view. The basic texts of the study are sermons by Grundtvig from 1821 to 1824, the period in which the eschatological tension emerges.Sections I to II.A. bring a chronological outline of the development of Grundtvig’s theology during the period until and including the year 1824. Section II.B. examines »The Land of the Living«  in the light of this outline. Throughout the study the emphasis is on the emergence of the eschatological tension.From his parents Grundtvig inherits a belief in a Kingdom of God hereafter, but as Grundtvig experiences the presence of the Lord through the Holy Spirit - in his own life and in the Church - the theology develops towards an understanding of the Kingdom of God as already present to Faith and Hope through the Holy Spirit. The future visible Kingdom illuminates the life of the Church already. Thus the eschatological tension emerges.The continuity between the future and the present Kingdom of God is found in the union with Christ through the Holy Spirit. This union is granted in Baptism and is nourished first and foremost through the Eucharist, and, next, through prayer and words of praise. Grundtvig’s experience of Pentecost underlies »The Land of the Living«: The Holy Spirit builds up the heart of man to become a temple for the Father and Son (stanza 12). Stanzas 7 to 11 elaborate the content of this unity with the Trinity. From here originates the life of the Church in the love of God and of one’s neighbour, a life which, through the Holy Spirit, takes man closer to the likeness to Christ; the goal is reached in Eternity. Wherever the love of God prevails, the Kingdom of God is present (stanza 13); that is where men are »co-operating witnesses to the divine struggle of the Spirit against the flesh«, against everything »which seeks to ... wipe out His image, destroy His temple within us« (Eighth Sunday after Trinity, 1824).
Viden er magt
Authors: Toftdahl Hellmut
Published: September 2020

Power is wisdomBu Hellmut Toftdahl
Dansk demokrati
Authors: Pedersen Kim Arne
Published: September 2020

Danish democracyBy Kim Arne Pedersen
Skrifter udgivet af Grundtvig-Selskabet
Authors: Albeck Gustav , Michelsen William , Schjørring Jens Holger , Toftdahl Hellmut
Published: September 2020

Works published by the Grundtvig Society
Grundtvigs prædiken 2. s.e. trin. 1840
Authors: Holm Jette
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig’s Sermon on the Second Sunday after Trinity, 1840.By Jette HolmIn 1983 the comprehensive edition of Grundtvig’s sermons during the 1820s and 1830s was completed. A group of editors, headed by Christian Thodberg and with Jette Holm, Leif Kallesen, Elisabeth Albinus Glenthøj and Johannes Glenthøj and others as participants, have undertaken the task of transcribing the sermons from the 1840s. An example of these sermons, held in connection with the coronation of Christian the Eighth, is reprinted here. The sermon deals with Grundtvig’s reflections on the relation between the national spirit and the Holy Spirit.
Om Grundtvig, J.A. Möhler og romantikken
Authors: Michelsen William
Published: September 2020

About Grundtvig, J.A. Möhler and RomanticismBy William MichelsenWilliam Michelsen criticizes William Franklin’s comparison of Grundtvig and Möhler, published in this volume of Grundtvig Studies. In William Michelsen’s opinion, it is misleading to assume that Grundtvig’s theology came about under the influence of the German philosopher Schelling, and subsequently to infer a common point of departure for Grundtvig and Möhler. Grundtvig’s attitude to German Idealism in general and Schelling’s philosophy in particular is one of unmitigated repudiation.
Konference-program
Authors: Balslev-Clausen Peter , Christiansen Erling
Published: September 2020

Program for conference
Skrifter udgivet af Grundtvig-Selskabet
Authors: Lundgreen-Nielsen Flemming , Michelsen William , Schjørring Jens Holger , Pedersen Kim Arne
Published: September 2020

Works published by the Grundtvig Society
Grundtvig as a Danish Contribution to World Culture
Authors: Lundgreen-Nielsen Flemming
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig som et dansk bidrag til verdens kulturAf Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen
Forord
Authors: Michelsen William , Pedersen Kim Arne , Schjørring Jens Holger
Published: September 2020

PrefaceBy the editors
Grundtvig og den lutherske tradition
Authors: Jørgensen Theodor
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig and the Lutheran TraditionBy Theodor JørgensenThe essay analyses the relation of Grundtvig to the Lutheran tradition in the form it took in Orthodoxy and early Protestantism, primarily on the basis of Grundtvig’s essay from 1830: »Should the Lutheran Reformation Really Be Continued?«. Grundtvig gives an affirmative answer to this question. In elaboration the present writer points out that in his dispute with Lutheran orthodoxy as well as modem Protestantism Gmndtvig upholds the main concern of the Reformation, but in the context of Modernity.This finds its most significant expression in Gmndtvig’s rejection of the ’sola scriptura’ of the Reformation, the Scriptures as the foundation of Christian Faith. The foundation of Faith is the living Christ, present in the word of Faith, Baptism and Eucharist amidst the congregation celebrating the divine service. On the other hand the Holy Scripture retains its authority as the best book of enlightenment for Faith. Grundtvig is convinced that with this view of the Scriptures he legitimizes the freedom for Bible research and theology which they rightly demand.
Højskolen og Grundtvig
Authors: Jensen Søren
Published: September 2020

The folk high school and GrundtvigReviewed by Søren Jensen