THE PASSION-HYMNS
OF ICELAND

BEING TRANSLATIONS FROM THE PASSION-HYMNS OF HALLGRIM PETURSSON AND FROM THE HYMNS OF THE MODERN ICELANDIC HYMN BOOK

TOGETHER WITH
AN INTRODUCTION
BY
C. VENN PILCHER, B.D.

FOREWORD BY THE RIGHT REV.
H. C. G. MOULE, D.D.
BISHOP OF DURHAM

LONDON: ROBERT SCOTT
ROXBURGHE HOUSE
PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
MCMXIII

TO
MY MOTHER,
WHO FIRST TAUGHT ME
THE STORY OF THE CROSS,
AND INTERESTED ME
IN THE
PEOPLE OF ICELAND.

#	Text	Tune
01	Jesus in Gethsemane
02	Jesus, the Son of God, was bound
03	Lo! now is the accepted time!
04	The pathway of Thy Passion
05	Whene'er in act or word
06	E'er since beneath God's open sky
07	Jesus, Lord, remember me
08	My life I draw, Lord, from Thy Death
09	Forsaken of God on Calvary
10	Thou art, O Christ, the everlasting Son!
11	Beneath the Cross of Jesus kneeling
12	Behold God's Garden! Resting here
13	I know that my Redeemer
14	Come, Lord, Thyself with Thine abounding grace
15	How glorious is God's greatness!
16	Full soon will fall the winter rain
17	This wondrous world, my God, a book I deem
18	Oft in death's shadowy vale, like screen of night
19	I stand by the lonely breakers
20	O Thou who madest water wine
21	When winds far-blown from realms of pain
22	What though this weary earth-born flesh lie fettered
23	Good Shepherd, Thou who gavest
24	Unto God's House in olden day
25	What time life's early morning
26	Lord, let Thy Spirit, from earthly passion weaning
27	Let Thy summer gift, O Lord
28	On the wings of light declining
29	The sun sinks o'er the western sea
30	Death is dead, the true Life liveth!
31	O Lord, my soul's true Sun, to rest
32	God of our land, our father's God, receive