Jonathan Petersen (7 May 1881 – 22 August 1961) was a

Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...

songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music ...

.Tidsskriftet Grønland, arkiv 1961
(danish) Walter Jens, Rudolf Radler (1992). ''Kindlers neues Literatur Lexikon.'' Kindler, He composed the music to the

national anthem A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation. The majority of national anthems are marches or hymns in style. American, Central Asian, and Europea ...

Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit "" (; da, "Vort ældgamle land under isblinkens bavn", ; en, "You, Our Ancient Land") is the national anthem of Greenland, an autonomous state of the Kingdom of Denmark. Written by Henning Jakob Henrik Lund in 1912, it was officially adopte ...

(''Our Country, Who's Become So Old'' in English). The lyrics were written by the Greenlandic pastor Henrik Lund, and the song was adopted as the national anthem in 1916.

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