Näkki | Syvä on väri hongissa ja kivissä

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by Ernst Josephson (1851 - 1906)

Translation © by Erkki Pullinen

Djup stod färgen på fura på sten

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: FIN FRE

Djup stod färgen på fura [på]¹ sten,
Furor och stenar, de kasta skuggor hän
I skummande silver och gull.

Sitter på stenen i skuggans breda famn,
Svartlockig gosse, så bleknad som en hamn,
Och trevar med stråke på sträng.

Neckens gullharpa spela opp en dans,
Gigan går efter och mistar all sin sans
För elvkung med silver i skägg.

Gossen var blott min egen fantasi -
Necken var forsen, som brusade förbi
Och stänkte sitt skum på min kind.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• Y. Kilpinen

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Confirmed with Ernst Josephson, Svarta Rosor och Gula, C. & E. Gernandts Förlags Aktiebolag, Stockholm, 1901, page 190.

Note: "Necken" is sometimes spelled "Näcken"
¹ Kilpinen: "och på"

Text Authorship:

by Ernst Josephson (1851 - 1906), "Necken", appears in Svarta Rosor och Gula [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Näcken", op. 29 no. 5 (1922), published 1924 [ voice and piano ], from Fantasi och verklighet III, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Näcken", op. 57 (8 sånger (Eight Songs)) no. 8 (1909) [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English [singable] (Herbert Harper) , "The elfking"
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Näkki", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Le nix", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Theobald Rehbaum) , "Der Neck"

Researcher for this page: Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 79

Näkki

Language: Finnish (Suomi) after the Swedish (Svenska)

Syvä on väri hongissa ja kivissä,
ne heittävät varjoja
hopeisiin ja kultaisiin kuohuihin.

Kivellä varjon laajassa sylissä istuu
mustakiharainen poika kalpeana kuin aave;
hän sivelee jousella soittimensa kieliä.

Näkin kultaharppu alkaa soittaa tanssia,
viulu lähtee mukaan ja villiintyy nähdessään
keijujen kuninkaan hopeisine partoineen.

Poika oli vain oman mielikuvitukseni luoma,
Näkki oli koski, joka kuohui ohitse
ja pärskytti kuohua poskilleni.

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a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Ernst Josephson (1851 - 1906), "Necken", appears in Svarta Rosor och Gula
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This text was added to the website: 2015-04-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 59