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Vaer velkommen Herrens Aar og velkommen herhid! [Be welcomed Year of the Lord and be welcomed hither!] By Jette Holm Grundtvig’s two hymns entitled Vaer velkommen Herrens Aar og velkommen herhid! , for Advent and the New Year, respectively, were written for the First Sunday of Advent 1849 and New Year’s Day 1850 and sung at Vartov. Grundtvig’s son Svend Grundtvig, a scholar and a collector of folksongs, had published an old manuscript in Dansk Kirketidende on 2 December 1849: Wer welkommen, Herrens Aar, och wellkommen herre! An old text for the New Year, with the same beginning, was mentioned as well. N. F. S. Grundtvig was so delighted with the expression “Vaer velkommen Herrens Aar og velkommen herhid” that in his sermon on the First Sunday of Advent 1849 he called it “ret et aegte Dansk Hosianna, hvor Munden taler af Hjertets Overflodighed” (“indeed a true Danish Hosianna in which the mouth speaks from the heart’s plenty”). (Fasc. 41). The sermons on the First Sunday of Advent 1849 and on New Year’s Day 1850, in which Grundtvig preaches on his two new hymns, have never been published and therefore have been transcribed for Grundtvig-Studier from his manuscript in Fasc. 41. In his sermon on the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity 1849, Grundtvig had realized for the first time that the old texts, i.e. the old lectionary authorized for use in the Sunday services of the Danish Lutheran Church, form a unity , created by the Holy Spirit. It is this “Herrens Aar” (Year of the Lord) with “Herrens Dag” (the Day of the Lord), with texts and sacraments that Grundtvig welcomes in his hymns. At Advent just like the crowd in Jerusalem shouting Hosianna! In his sermon on the First Sunday of Advent, 1849, Grundtvig reminds the congregation that the Year of the Lord brings Mercy, Peace and Joy for Christians. His hymn for Advent has four stanzas, one for Christmas, one for Easter and one for Pentecost, while the fourth sums up the whole Year of the Lord with the Days of the Lord. In his sermon on New Year’s Day 1850, Grundtvig quotes the four new stanzas of his second hymn Vaer velkommen Herrens Aar and clarifies the differences between the New Year of the Church and the civil New Year. How can Christians pray for the civil community and their home country? Denmark was at war 1848-51. For Christians the Kingdom of God is Justice, Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit. But God is also the Father and Creator of all men, the Lord of Truth, Mercy and Peace. Consequently, He delights in truthfulness, mildness and love of peace; and the Danish people in spite of its worldly poverty and weakness, embodies these values.

Vær velkommen Herrens Aar og velkommen herhid!