- Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig. Although Kierkegaard admired Grundtvig’s legendary
erudition, the weight of his personality, and his elemental, unsleeping energy, no one else was subjected
to such disrespectful treatment in Kierkegaard’s journals, where the Nordic giant was described in
epithets that included “world-historical rowdy,” “bellowing blacksmith,” “hearty, yodeling fellow,” and
“Ale-Norse warrior.” Grundtvig read the various issues of The Moment and called Kierkegaard one
of “the ice-cold scoffers that always hang under the church roof like icicles.”
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