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262 NOTES
Page 212.
Tue Lanp TuaT SHALL Be. See the poem Hamar-made Matches, page
181, and notes thereto.
Page 214.
Norway, Norway! First published in the edition of 1890. The poet
has himself stated that he wrote it at Aulestad, on being asked to fur-
nish a song for the flag-procession of boys and girls on the 17th of May
(see pages 227, 228).
Runes in the woodlands, as it were written records of the labors of
past generations,
Page 216.
WHEN CoMEs THE MorninG? From the novel, Iz God’s Way, pub-
lished in 1889.
Page 218.
May SEVENTEENTH. In memory of the unveiling of Henrik Werge-
land’s statue in Christiania on the 17th of May, 1881, when Bjérnson
also delivered a great oration. Henrik Arnold Wergeland was born June
17, 1808, in Christiansand, and died August 12, 1845, in Christiania.
Though he studied theology, he devoted his life to poetry and politics.
His earliest writings, farces and poems, showed powerful, but uncon-
trolled, genius. His great popularity began in 1829 with his active en-
trance into public life. He labored for the enlightenment of his people
through his writings and his personal influence in journeyings all over
the land, and especially through speeches at political meetings. His
chief poetic work, the rationalistic-republican didactic poem, Creation,
Man, and Messiah, appeared in 1830. It was severely criticised in a
special, polemical writing by Welhaven (see page 244), who continued
his attack on all Wergeland’s views and teachings in his Norzway’s
Dawn. Thus arose the Wergeland-Welhaven conflict, which was car-
ried on hotly for many years by their adherents, and contributed much
to the intellectual development of the nation. Wergeland was very pro-
ductive as editor, publicist, and poet. In 1840 he was appointed Keeper
of the Archives, and held this government office until his death.
In his own time Wergeland was in spirit the head of the radical-
national ‘ Peasant party,’’ which was indeed patriotic and democratic,
but too narrowly Norwegian, in opposition to all that was Danish,
European, foreign. During the years preceding 1881 he had come to
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