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NOTES 249
with their phraseology, and especially that prominent men were first
made recognizable, and that then false hearts and base characters were
fictitiously given them and spurious alliances pasted on them.”
The words of Einar. F or Einar Tambarskelve, see page 234, and for
Magnus the Good, page 231. Immediately after the death of Magnus
in Denmark, Harald proposed to make himself King over all Denmark,
but Einar arose and spoke, ending with the words: ‘It seems to me bet-
ter to follow King Magnus dead, than any other King living.” Nearly
all the Norwegians joined Einar, and Harald was left with too small
a force to carry out his plan.
My childhood’s faith unshaken stands, Bjornson was at the time with
full conviction an orthodox Christian; Sverdrup was for himself a free-
thinker in religion.
Brotherhood in all three lands. Sverdrup was always opposed to any
close federation of the three countries, and to Scandinavism, see pages
239, 240.
What ought just now to be. The whole political programme of the
Left, as it was gradually wrought out during the next two decades.
Sverre, see page 229.
One zation only and one will, Sverdrup’s ideal, as outlined above.
That impelled the viking, see note on Harald Fairhair, page 228.
At Hjorung, see page 235.
Wessel’s sword, see Tordenskjold, page 229.
Wessels pen. Johan Herman Wessel (1742-1785) was a grand-
nephew of Peder Wessel Tordenskjold. He was the leader and most
popular member of the “ Norwegian Society ” in Copenhagen, in spirit
and style the most Norwegian of the writers born in Norway in the
eighteenth century.
That in faith so high, etc., refers to the teaching of Grundtvig (see
page 254), who looked upon the Edda-gods as representing a religion
originally akin to Christianity.
Brun. Johan Nordal Brun (1745-1816) became bishop in 1804. A
popular poet, he was the creator of the older national hymn and other
patriotic songs; an ardent lover of his country, opposed to Danish in-
fluences in politics and culture ; strictly orthodox and a powerful orator.
Hauge. Hans Nilsen Hauge (1771-1824), a peasant lay-preacher, of
whom a biographer has said : “Since the Reformation no single man
has had so profound an influence on ecclesiastical and Christian life
in Norway.” The “Haugian revival” of the emotional religious life is
proverbial. Its value was great in every way ; directly and also by his
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