A the­o­lo­gian and pro­fess­or of He­brew, Blix wrote his doc­tor­al dis­ser­ta­tion on The Words for Lord and King in He­brew. He was for ma­ny years a pro­fess­or of Se­mi­tic lang­uag­es at Os­lo Un­i­ver­si­ty, served as the Nor­we­gian Min­is­ter of Ec­cles­i­as­tic­al Af­fairs, and was in­stru­ment­al in in­tro­duc­ing the nynorsk lang­uage in­to Nor­we­gian hymn­o­dy. His works in­clude:

• Nokre Salmar, 1891

Hymns

1. Gud signe vårt dyre fedre­land (known as the na­tion­al hymn of No­rway)
2. Med Jesus vil eg fara
3. No livnar det i lun­dar
4. Syng i stille mor­gon­stund­er

Translations

1. Den store kvite flokk
2. Himmelske Fader, herleg utan like
3. Kyrkja ho er er eit gamalt hus