Dass meaning

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.

The collected writings of Dass were edited (3 vols., Christiania, 1873-1877) by Dr. A.

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Petter Dass was born in 1647 on the island of Nord Hero, on the north coast of Norway.

The rule of Alstahoug extended over all the neighbouring districts, including Dass's native island of Hero, and its privileges were accompanied by great perils, for it was necessary to be constantly crossing stormy firths of sea.