Dansk litteraturvidenskab. Le mardi gras acadien.

Holberg, Brorson, Baggesen, Oehlenschläger. There are many other authors and more attractive ones, but if you study seriously you must also know famous people like this. I was always impressed with Steen Steensen Blicher because he wrote in jysk as well as Danish, making Jutland dialect a literary language, and you could just feel the heather and the wind and the rough-hewn life waft off the page.

On the radio they are playing a very old version of this country Carnaval song from near here, and it is surely related. I can scarcely believe so many marvels exist. This is what I like about being an academic, and why I wanted to be one, just to know all these things are there to meet.

 Axé.


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