De dienende Datheen: het auteurschap van het Wilhelmus opnieuw tekstvergelijkend onderzocht

In 2016 Mike Kestemont stated the hypothesis that the Dutch national anthem, the Wilhelmus, had been written by psalmist Petrus Datheen. This hypothesis came as a surprise: Datheen’s psalms were only added to Kestemont’s research corpus as control content to test the attribution to known author candidates. In this article, I put Kestemont’s hypothesis to the test, conducting a comparative textual analysis of Wilhelmus, Datheen’s psalm versification and the French psalm versification by Marot and De Bèze that Datheen translated. I focus on the representation of leadership in the Wilhelmus and t... Mehr ...