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I am using an old and favorite blog for All Sains Sunday, with my All Saints pumpkin recipe! I am in Iceland for the events surrounding the 350th anniversary of Hallgrímur Pétursson Iceland's greatest hymnwriter and won't be able to post anything then. Enjoy!
Hallgrímur Pétursson
October 27, will be the 350th anniversary of Hallgrímur Pétursson death (1607-1674), Iceland’s greatest hymn writer, especially his Fifty Hymns of the Passion. It will be marked by many events, one of them a performance of an oratorio by Sigurdur Sævarsson, using Hallgrimur’s hymns in Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavik which I attended. In 2019, the church published my translation of the fifty hymns which I did with the help of the now late retired bishop Karl Sigurbjörnsson. For more on Hallgrímur, click here. (They would make a fine study during Lent.)
Here is a part of what I heard on Sunday night in Reykjavik, but not the same performance. It was very powerful and moving. More Americans should know the works of Sigidur Sævarsson! This would be a wonderful work to hear during Lent, especially Holy Week.
Here is his website where you can hear more of his work
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