Dass dictionary definition

dass

Verb

(third-person singular simple present dasses, present participle dassing, simple past and past participle dassed)

Origin

Compare dare, darest, dast.

See also: daß

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PETTER DASS (1647-1708), the "father" of modern Norwegian poetry, was the son of Peter Dundas, a Scottish merchant of Dundee, who, leaving his country about 1630 to escape the troubles of the Presbyterian chursh, settled in Bergen, and in 1646 married a Norse girl of good family.
Petter Dass was born in 1647 on the island of Nord Hero, on the north coast of Norway.
Dass lived here in quietude, with something of the honours and responsibilities of a bishop, brought up his family in a God-fearing way, and wrote endless reams of verses.
In 1700 he asked leave to resign his living in favour of his son Anders Dass, but this was not permitted; in 1704, however, Anders became his father's chaplain.
The other poems of Petter Dass are less universally read; they abound, however, in queer turns of thought, and fine homely fancies.

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