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For the opening lines compare the poem Toast for the Men of Eids-
vold, page 85, and notes thereto.
Page 162.
On a Wire’s Deatu. In memory of Queen Louisa (1828-1871), con-
sort of King Karl XV of Sweden and Norway. A princess of the
Netherlands, whose mother was the sister of Emperor William I, she
was married in 1850, and died March 30, 1871. She bore a son on
December 4, 1852, who died March 13, 1854. In November, 1870, she
was called to her dying mother in The Hague. Karl XV died in Sep-
tember, 1872, after several years of precarious health. Queen Louisa
was an unassuming, truly noble woman of deeply religious feeling and
large benevolence.
Page 163.
AT THE Brier OF PrecenTor A. ReITan. Anders Jorgensen Reitan,
a peasant, was born July 26, 1826, and died August 30, 1872. After
attending the Teachers’ Seminary, he took up this calling, and in 18 53
became precentor (and teacher) in Kvikne, Bjérnson’s birthplace. He
remained in this position the rest of his life, making himself, by his in-
fluence at meetings, through lectures, and in visits from farm to farm,
a pioneer in popular enlightenment, an important bearer of culture. He
was a member of the Storting for the term 1871-73, but was seriously
ill a large part of the session of 1871, and in April, 1872, received leave
of absence. He died in Christiania.
Page 166.
On THE DgaTH oF N.F.S. Grunptvic. Few men have so influenced
the spiritual development of Denmark, and indeed that of all Scandi-
navia, as Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, the noted Danish the-
ologian, historian, and poet (born September 8, 1783; died September
2,1872). He made a name for himself early by historical, mythological,
religious, and poetical writings. He successfully opposed the rational-
istic thought of the earlier nineteenth century with his simple exposi-
tion of Christianity according to the pure teachings of Jesus. His effort
was to present to Scandinavia Christianity in a popular form, closely
connected with the national thought of the time. There gathered about
him a host of able and enthusiastic followers, through whom his re-
ligious and political influence extended over all the North. His char-
_acteristic religious views were, as a system, called Grundtvigianism.
For the Church his ideal was a church of the people with wholly in-
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