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14 Sunday Feb 2010

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http://www2.kb.dk/elib/mss/treasures/mss/thott_1510.htm

The Heart Book – 1550

The Heart Book is regarded as the oldest Danish ballad manuscript. It is a collection of 83 love ballads compiled in the beginning of the 1550s in the circle of the Court of King Christian III. Shown here is the beginning of ballad no. 43, Store laengsel, du gor mig naer (Great Yearning, thou touches me).