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| Short Name: | Valdimar Briem |
| Full Name: | Valdimar Briem, 1848-1930 |
| Birth Year: | 1848 |
| Death Year: | 1930 |
Born: February 1, 1848, Grund, Iceland.
Died: May 3, 1930, Stóri-Núpur, Iceland.
Briem attended the Theological Seminary in Reykjavik, was ordained in 1873, and in 1880 became pastor of the Stóri-Núpur parish, where he served for three decades. In 1909, he became vice-bishop of Skálholt. The 1886 Icelandic hymnal has 102 original hymns by Briem, and 39 of his translations.
Lyrics:
Hve dryalegur er Drottinn
(How Marvelous God’s Greatness)
Lord, Let Thy Spirit
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Texts by Valdimar Briem (12) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full soon will fall the winter rain | Valdimar Briem (Translator) | English | 2 |
| Good Shepherd, Thou who gavest | Valdimar Briem (Author) | English | 2 |
| How glorious is God's greatness! | Valdimar Briem, 1848-1930 (Author) | English | 9 |
| I stand by the lonely breakers | Valdimar Briem (Author) | English | 2 |
| Lord, let Thy Spirit, from earthly passion weaning | Valdimar Briem (Author) | English | 5 |
| O Thou who madest water wine | Valdimar Briem (Author) | English | 2 |
| Oft in death's shadowy vale, like screen of night | Valdimar Briem (Author) | English | 2 |
| This wondrous world, my God, a book I deem | Valdimar Briem (Translator) | English | 2 |
| Unto God's House in olden day | Valdimar Briem (Author) | English | 2 |
| What though this weary earth-born flesh lie fettered | Valdimar Briem (Author) | English | 2 |
| What time life's early morning | Valdimar Briem (Author) | English | 2 |
| When winds far-blown from realms of pain | Valdimar Briem (Author) | English | 2 |
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