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and ‘there is poetry in that man. Oh, how you have misunderstood
him!” It was this friend who, about the same time as these letters were
written, helped Bjornson open his spirit to the influence of Grundtvig
(see page 254). Borch for many years gave free instruction to convicts
in the Akershus prison in drawing and other subjects, and so helped
them to a future when they came out.
Page 113.
Cuoice, A Danish publisher issued a calendar with poems on the
months by different Scandinavian poets. When Bjornson was invited
to contribute, all the other months were already written up or assigned,
and only April was left.
Page 114.
NORWEGIAN SEAMEN’S SONG.
Saint Olaf’s Cross. Of the insignia of the Royal Norwegian Order of
St. Olaf, founded in 1847 by King Oskar I; the characteristic feature is
a white cross.
Hafursfjord’s great day (see page 228), near Stavanger.
Page 116.
HaLFDAN KJERULF was born September 15,1815, and died August 11,
1868. He early showed talent for music, and though he had to study law
from 1834 on, he yet studied and wrote music with a crushing sense of
lack of knowledge and opportunity. He was dangerously ill in 1839, and
always weak physically. His father died in 1840, and Kjerulf then began
to earn his living by music. A stipend received in 1850 enabled him to
go to Leipzig for a year. In 1851 hesettled in Christiania as a teacher
of music, where for the rest of his life his influence as a composer was
most important. His compositions are all of the lesser forms; his best
work was done from 1860 to 1865. He was in general a pioneer of
modern Norwegian music, and one of the first to draw from the inex-
haustible fountain of folk-music. He wrote exquisite music for many
songs of Welhaven, Wergeland, Moe, Bjornson, and others.
Page 117.
NoRWEGIAN STUDENTS’ GREETING TO PROFESSOR WELHAVEN. Johan
Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven was born December 22, 1807,
lived from 1828 in Christiania, was lector from 1840 to 1846, and from
1846 to 1868 professor of philosophy in the University ; he died Octo-
ber 21,1873. His poetical works were: Norway’s Dawn, 1834; Poems,
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