Mainly an author of Danish-Norwegian spiritual history, Holberg was a writer and historian. His writing presented new ideas about politics , religion and gender to a broad Danish-Norwegian audience within the framework of the Protestant culture in absolutist Denmark-Norway . (source Nordic archive )
Ludvig Holberg’s Peder Paars is a Danish parody of the classical heroic Roman epic the Aeneid by Virgil. Peder Paars was published for the first time in 1719-1720
The poem Peder Paars was published in four parts in the period 1719 – 1720. It is a satirical-comic poem reflecting on the tradition of old ancient heroic epics. In the poem, Holberg makes fun of many powerful people in his day. The result was possible threats to Holberg, but it is known that the then ruling king approved the poem when he was informed that the plot was fictitious.
Image - The edition shown here, printed in 1772 in the Godiche printing house
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