Ris og ros

Resumé

Commendation and Correction

Jens Lyster: On Grundtvig’s "Sleep Soundly; Little One" and other matters ... In: Hymnological Bulletin, edited by Hymnological Society and Nordic Institute of Hymnology, 18th year, 1989, no. 3.

Reviewed by Gustav Albeck

The writer has found an unnoticed version of Grundtvig’s hymn "Sleep Soundly, Little One" in a prayer-book, edited in 1847 by "an Association of Clergymen and Teachers In Copenhagen". He presents weighty arguments for the assumption that the editors have used an unknown manuscript by Grundtvig himself, an as sumption which evidently makes the text material of the prayer-book worthy of attention. Jens Lyster, therefore, blames the editors of Grundtvig’s Hymnary for the Danish Church, latest edition, that they have failed to draw attention to the existence of the prayer-book and its special text material which is not comprehensive, but with an interpretative perspective. Unfortunately, he allows himself to be induced by this fact to launch