Translated by Marc Linder from the first edition of Hans Kirk, Daglejerne (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1936), the seventh edition of Hans Kirk, Daglejerne (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1950), and the eighth (Tranebog) edition of Hans Kirk, Daglejerne (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1975); and the first edition of Hans Kirk, De ny tider, (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1939), the second edition of Hans Kirk, De ny tider, (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1943), Hans Kirk, De ny tider, (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1975)