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by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 - 1910)

Det første Mødes Sødme
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Det første Mødes Sødme,
det er som Sang i Skoven,
det er som Sang paa Voven
i Solens sidste Rødme, --
det er som Horn i Uren
de tonende Sekunder,
hvori vi med Naturen
forenes i et Under.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   E. Grieg •   M. White 

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne. Fortællinger, Jubilæumsudgave, Fortællingerne og Digteren af Moltke Moe, Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag, Kristiania, København : 1907, p. 329.

Note: another form of the text can be found in Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne. Samlede Værker, Mindeutgave, Første bind, Kristiania og Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1910, p. 80:

Det første møtes sødme,
det er som sang i skogen,
det er som sang på vågen
i solens siste rødme, --
det er som horn i uren,
de tonende sekunder,
hvori vi med naturen
forenes i et under.

Note: White uses "forenes Inett under" as the last line (possibly a typo).

Text as set by Grieg, White:

Det første mødes sødme,
det er som sang i skogen,
det er som sang på vågen
i solens sidste rødme, --
det er som horn i uren
de tonende sekunder,
hvori vi med naturen
forenes i et under.


Text Authorship:

  • by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 - 1910), no title, appears in Fiskerjenten [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 Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907), "Det første Møde", op. 21 (Fire Dikt fra Fiskerjenten) no. 1 (1870), published 1873 [ voice and piano ], see the footnotes section above [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Helena Munktell (1852 - 1919), "Det förste möde", published 1883? [ voice and piano ], from Fyra sånger, no. 1, Stockholm, Huss & Beer [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Johan Gustaf) Emil Sjögren (1853 - 1918), "Det förste Möde Södme", op. 1 (Fyra dikter af Ibsen och Björnson) no. 3 (1873?6) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "Det første mødes sødme", published 1888? [ voice and piano ], from New Albums of Songs with German and English Words, Volume 1, no. 4, London: Pitt & Hatzfeld ; see the footnotes section above, also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, a translation by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937) , "Love's first awak'ning sweetness" ; composed by Maude Valérie White.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Nigel Parker) , "The sweetness of a first meeting", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "La première rencontre", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Franz von Holstein) , "Erstes Begegnen"


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 37

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