KRISTIJONAS DONELAITIS AND PETTER DASS – PARALLEL PIONEERS IN LITHUANIAN AND NORWEGIAN POETRY

• Published in: Knygotyra
• Main Author: VISTDAL, OSKAR
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla / Vilnius University Press 2015
• Subjects: Parallels of Arctic and Baltic culture and nature; translations of Donelaitis into Swedish and Icelandic; translations of Dass into English and German; topographical; itinerant and picaresque literature; Kingo; baroque hymns and epics; Klopstock; Stenerso; .; Arctic; Norway; Vistdal; Nordland; sami
• Online Access: https://www.journals.vu.lt/knygotyra/article/view/8219; https://doi.org/10.15388/kn.v64i0.8219

This paper aims to identify links between “The Seasons” and Scandinavian poetry. Contemporary connections are hardly demonstrable, but a striking older parallel is Petter Dass’ epic poem “Nordlands Trompet” (The Trumpet of Nordland, 1678–1696, published posthumously in 1739), the most important pre-...