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256 NOTES
page 146, and notes thereto, and some of the notes to the poem To Fohan
Sverdrup, page 133. The years just before and after 1870 were a time
of intense conflicts, in all of which Bjornson had a large part. His
personality was fanatically admired by many adherents, but was also
bitterly attacked even with misrepresentation and slander, by those
who supported the party of the Right. He was almost persecuted by the
leading Conservative newspaper in Christiania, whose editor was in
large measure the model for the title-hero of Bjérnson’s drama, The
Editor, written soon after.
Hafur, see page 228.
Page 172.
At HansTeen’s Bizr. The astronomer and physicist, Christopher
Hansteen, was born September 26, 1784, and died April 15, 1873; he
was buried April 21. Made lecturer in 1814, he was professor of astron-
omy and applied mathematics in the University until his retirement in
1861. He was the leader of the world’s study of magnetism, and made
Christiania the clearing-house of the labors in this field of science. The
earliest Norwegian scientist of world-wide fame, he was a member of
many learned societies and the recipient of many Orders. __
Page 173.
RaLLyinG SONG FoR FREEDOM IN THE NorTu. “The United Left”
is here the liberal, democratic party of the Lower House (Folketing)
of the Danish Parliament. As earlier, 1868—69, in Norway, a consti-
tutional conflict had now begun in Denmark, which continued with
acute crises at intervals until the compromise of 1894 and the acces-
sion of the Left to control of the government in 1901. The theme of
the poem is the parallel between the political movements in the two
countries, the union of the peasant opposition with that of the town-
people in favor of a liberal policy. The power of truth to prevail is
also set forth by Bjornson in his later drama, The New System.
Page 174.
AT a Banquet. The coronation was that of Oskar II, as King of
Norway.
Olaf’s, Olaf Trygvason, see page 233.
Page 177.
Sonc oF FREEDOM. See the poem, Rallying Song, etc., page 173, and
notes thereto.
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