Open AccessGrundtvig and the Descent into Hell
Author(s) -
N. F. S. Grundtvig
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
grundtvig studier
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2246-6282
pISSN - 0107-4164
DOI - 10.7146/grs.v67i1.96650
Subject(s) - poetry , theme (computing) , literature , descent (aeronautics) , art , section (typography) , fortress (chess) , philosophy , history , theology , computer science , geography , world wide web , meteorology , operating system
The following special section on Grundtvig’s poem I Kveld blev der banketpaa Helvedes Port [This Night came a Knocking on Hell’s Fortress-Gate]includes a new unrhymed metrical English translation of the poem withselect commentary by S.A.J. Bradley, followed by two articles, the firstby K.E. Bugge about the genesis of the poem and the Descent theme inGrundtvig’s thinking; and the second by S.A.J. Bradley concerning theAnglo-Saxon poems which Grundtvig indicates were his inspiration to IKveld and a small cluster of other hymns which he wrote for the DanishChurch.