#298: The Bells of Christmas

This text is by Nikolai Grundtvig, who we've seen several times, but this is the only one of his songs that has Danish text included here. I don't think it's even one of the "random Christmas songs in other languages" from that old handout of singalongs I've mentioned before, or if it is, we still never sing it.

"Now let us go with quiet mind" is an interesting addition to the shepherds' line about "let us go to see the child the angels told us about." Maybe you have to be in an appropriately peaceful mindset to recognize Jesus? Or maybe they just needed a rhyme with "find."

Verse 5 has a lot of Jesus=Proper Nouns (Joy, Song, Dayspring) that summarize the ancient Antiphons from "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel."

The tenor part is extremely boring.