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(1915) Author: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Translator: Arthur Hubbell Palmer With: Arthur Hubbell Palmer
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NOTES 253

he talked about publishing it, and received a grant from the Storting
for this purpose. But it was always to be improved, and nothing was
published except a fragment after his death,

Page 155.

For THE WouNDED. This song was written in 1871, and sung at
bazaars which were held in all the cities of Norway in order to raise
funds for sending nurses, bandages, and money to the French wounded.

Page 156.
LANDFALL. Written in 1872 for a musical festival in Trondhjem, the
profits of which were given to aid in the restoration of the Cathedral
there.

Olaf Trygvason, see page 233.

Page 157.
To Hans CurisTIAN ANDERSEN. Although Hans Christian Andersen
(1805-1875) traveled frequently and far in the earlier years, he made
after 1863 only one journey out of Denmark. This was to Norway,
to receive the homage of the brother-nation. Bjérnson had been quite
intimate with him, both personally in Copenhagen and especially in
Rome, and by correspondence. Andersen’s genius was misjudged and
condemned by the Danish critic Heiberg (see page 232), but his very
lack of the then prevailing Danish qualities made Bjornson admire and
sympathize with him.

A fairy-tale. Andersen’s chief work, Tales told for Children, appeared
in 1835; his New Tales and Stories, in 1858-61.

Page 158.

To Sranc. Fredrik Stang (born March 4, 1808; died June 8, 1884.) was
an active and successful lawyer from 1834 to 1845. In the latter year he
became Secretary of the then established Department of the Interior, be-
ginning a most meritorious career and opening a new era in Norway’s
internal development. By him industry and trade were made freer, the
sea-fisheries and agriculture fostered, roads built, the postal service was
improved, the first telegraph line and the first railroad were instituted.
He retired because of illness in 1854. But after the great minister-crisis
of December, 1861, he presided over the Norwegian government until
the summer of 1873, when, after the abolition of the viceroyship, he
was made Prime Minister and continued as such until 1880. He was a
thorough conservative, a member of the Right, and so opposed to the
political ideals cherished by Sverdrup (see page 248) and Bjérnson.

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