Kristin Roijen (http://www.facebook.com/HiOA.LSB), head of the NFF (Norwegian Association of Special Libraries) shares with us:
The Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland worked in the Oslo University Library from the year 1836, according to Wikipedia, Norwegian version: "Liv og virke 1836-40", available from http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Wergeland
The English wikipedia-version has got his link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Wergeland. Here, they only point to the "National Archive"-position that Wergeland had. But in his work as librarian he has made notes on some of the library cards, and they are kept as a curiosity on the National library (?) of Norway. From my memories through times! -Where we read this entry:
- "Heaven shall no more be split
- after the quadrants of altars,
- the earth no more be sundered and plundered
- by tyrant's sceptres.
- Bloodstained crowns, executioner's steel
- torches of thralldom and pyres of sacrifice
- no more shall gleam over earth.
- Through the gloom of priests, through the thunder of kings,
- the dawn of freedom,
- bright day of truth
- shines over the sky, now the roof of a temple,
- and descends on earth,
- who now turns into an altar
- for brotherly love.
- The spirits of the earth now glow
- in freshened hearts.
- Freedom is the heart of the spirit, Truth the spirit's desire.
- earthly spirits all
- to the soil will fall
- to the eternal call:
- Each in own brow wears his heavenly throne.
- Each in own heart wears his altar and sacrificial vessel.
- Lords are all on earth, priests are all for God.
At the age of twenty-one he became a power in literature, and his enthusiastic preaching of the doctrines of the French July revolution of 1830 made him a force in politics also. Meanwhile he was tireless in his efforts to advance the national cause. He established popular libraries, and tried to alleviate the widespread poverty of the Norwegian peasantry. He preached the simple life, denounced foreign luxuries, and set an example by wearing Norwegian homespun clothes. He strived for enlightenment and greater understanding of the constitutional rights his people had been given. Thus, he became increasingly popular among common people."
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