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Goffe Jensma, Irony, nationalism, and the Oera Linda book. 

The Oera Linda book is a curious enigma which came to light in the
Dutch town of Den Helder in 1867. It is an ambiguous literary text
which can be read in two different ways: On the one hand as a
nonsensical parody on the tradition of Friesian fantastic
historiography, and on the other as a much more serious allegory of
the nineteenth-century conflict between liberal theological modernism
and orthodoxy. The attribution of this anonymous text to the Minister/
Poet Franois HaverSchmidt (1835-1894) subsequently shows how an ironic
style of thinking and writing can be a by-product of modernisation. In
the case of HaverSchmidt and his Oera Linda book, this irony is
working in two spheres, viz. that of regional identity and that of
religion. In both cases, HaverSchmidtÕs irony is the result of a
strongly felt tension between tradition and modernity, between the
desire to believe in a fantastic, non-critical nationalist
historiography or in the existence of a wonder-working God on the one
hand, and on the other a commitment to the knowledge that such things
can no longer exist in a modern world.
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