Min Tanke er et mægtigt Fjeld

Min Tanke er et mægtigt Fjeld,
Der over Himlene gaar;
Mit Hjerte er et Hav saa dybt,
Hvor Bølge mod Bølge slaar.

Og Fjeldet løfter dit Billed
Højt mod Himlens Blaa.
Men selv Du lever i Hjertet,
Hvor dybe Brændinger gaa.

Translation(s): FRE GER

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Authorship

• by Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875), no title, written 1831, appears in Phantasier og Skizzer, in Hjertets Melodier, no. 2 [ author's text not yet checked 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 Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907), "Min Tanke er et mægtigt Fjeld", op. 5 no. 4 (1864-5), published 1865, from Hjertets melodier, no. 4. [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Mes pensées sont une haute montagne", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Mein Denken ist ein mächt’ger Berg

Mein Denken ist ein mächt’ger Berg,
der himmelhoch sich reckt; 
mein Herz ist wie ein Meer so tief,
wo Well’ an Welle schlägt.

Und dieser Berg erhebt dein Bild 
hoch in des Himmels Schein.
Doch du lebst tief im Herzen mir,
meiner Gefühle Schrein.

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• Translation from Danish (Dansk) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2018 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
  
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• a text in Danish (Dansk) by Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875), no title, written 1831, appears in Phantasier og Skizzer, in Hjertets Melodier, no. 2 FRE
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Edvard Grieg. Go to the text.

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