lørdag 31. desember 2016

In the Bleak Midwinter

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As the year draws to its long-awaited close, it is time for one final blogpost in 2016. This month has been one of very short posts, and th...
mandag 26. desember 2016

A rose from the root of Jesse - a Christmas song in Norwegian and German

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One of my favourite Christmas songs is the German song Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, a text of an unknown author. The music is a traditiona...
tirsdag 20. desember 2016

Folkefrelsar til oss kom, the Norwegian translation of Veni Redemptor Gentium

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Like my previous blogpost, this one will be short and focus on a piece of music for the Advent season. In this post, I present to you the ...
mandag 12. desember 2016

Veni Veni Emmanuel

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Advent is progressing rapidly and Christmas is just a few days away. For a last-year PhD candidate, this means to be shoulder-deep in wri...
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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...