Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie

sang in the temples should be translated into
Danish. Martin, with the help of John
Spandemager, who afterwards became Pastor of
Lund, in Schonen, and who "labored assiduously
for more than thirty years in the vineyard of the
Lord,"[6] translated several of the sacred hymns of
Germany into the tongue of the people, which,
being printed and published, at Malmoe, formed
the first hymn-book of the Reformed Church of
Denmark.
By-and-by there came a still nobler hymnbook.
Francis Wormord, of Amsterdam, the first
Protestant Bishop of Lund, was originally a
Carmelite monk. During his residence in the
monastery of Copenhagen or of Helsingborg, for it
is uncertain which, led by love of the truth, he
translated the Psalms of David into the Danish
tongue. The task was executed jointly by himself
and Paul Elia, for, being a native of Holland,
Wormord was but imperfectly master of the Danish
idiom, and gladly availed himself of the help of
another. The book was published in 1528, "with the
favor and privilege of the king."[7] The publication
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