mandag 30. januar 2017

Songs for the new semester

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The new semester is well underway, and for me it has already been a very busy semester with a lot of writing already past me and even more...
fredag 27. januar 2017

Borges and the Barometz - or, Excerpts from a personal history of reading

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As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition - Jorge Luis Borges, preface to the 1969 English ...
fredag 20. januar 2017

Geoffrey Hill's "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian"

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Today is the feast of Saint Sebastian, who, according to tradition, was a Christian soldier in the Roman army during the reign of Diocletian...
tirsdag 17. januar 2017

Excerpts from the cultural history of the toad

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In the middle of the thirteenth century, Thomas de Cantimpré (1201-72) composed an encyclopedic work titled Liber de Natura Rerum , in which...
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 ...