ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN POEM BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

ANDERSEN, H.C.

I Oehlenschlægers Album - original handwritten poem, signed by Andersen - "in Oehlenschläger's Album".

(1842)

1 leaf 8vo. With a later note in tiny neat handwriting to lower blank margin stating that Andersen's original handwritten poem was printed in "Hertha" 1842, p. 5.


This excellent originally handwritten poem by the great fairy tale-author has the underlined headline "I Øehlenschlægers Album", but is also known under the title "Paa Nordens Himmel i Stjernernes Flok" (i.e. On the Sky of the North in the flock of the stars), which is also the first line of the poem. It was later printed, in the Swedish-Danish publication "Hertha", in January 1842, appeared again in "Digte, gamle og nye" in 1846, yet again in Andersen's collected works, vol XII, 252, 1879, as nr. 1 of the album leaves, and recently in a new modern Danish version by Johan de Mylius. 

This beautiful and treasured Andersen poem in full reads thus:

Paa Nordens Himmel i Stjernernes Flok,
Tycho Brahe har skrevet sit Minde,
Og Thorvaldsen hug udi Fjeldets Blok
Sit Navn, det vil aldrig forsvinde;
Du sang af dit Hjerte og Norden/ har hørt
Ved Dig sine største Bedrifter,
Dybt Hjertets Gange har Hjerterne/ rørt,
Din Storhed ei Tiden henvistner!
Staaer Een i Stjernerne, Een i/ Steen,
I Hjerterne veed jeg staaer ogsaa/ Een.

We know that Andersen himself also treasured the poem and later also sent it to Zeise, who he hoped would translate it into German and have it published. 

BFN 413.

Order-nr.: 60365

DKK 35.000,00