søndag 27. november 2016

November Sun - a poem by Derek Walcott

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November draws to its close, and this has been a very busy November for me. I've done a lot of travelling, with some travelling still to...
tirsdag 22. november 2016

A lost legend about the finding of Saint Stephen's relics

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The story of Stephen Protomartyr is well known in history of Christianity, and he is widely hailed as the first Christian to have died for h...
tirsdag 15. november 2016

The church containing Olaf Haraldsson's first shrine has probably been found

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This is pretty exciting. For quite some time there has been an ongoing archaeological excavation in Trondheim, north of the public library...
tirsdag 8. november 2016

Quietly marking the beginning of winter with a poem by Geoffrey Hill

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The first snow arrived in Odense yesterday afternoon, and today I woke up to a ground dotted with fragile patches of snow that helped refrac...
mandag 31. oktober 2016

Death and the fiddle - Böcklin, Tartini and a Norwegian traditional

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I entertain a deep fascination with the many different ways in which humans meditate on their own relationship to death and mortality, and ...
torsdag 27. oktober 2016

Musical Mirror Images - the office of Saint Louis of France and Roman de Fauvel

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In 1297, Pope Boniface VIII canonized King Louis IX of France (1214-70). This canonization was the result of an investigation into testim...
søndag 23. oktober 2016

Modern echoes of Ovid - from the works of Derek Walcott and Geoffrey Hill

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I'm currently reading a collection of essays by Thea Selliaas Thorsen, classical scholar at the Norwegian University of Science and Tec...