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by Carl Wilhelm Böttiger (1807 - 1878)

Svanen
Language: Swedish (Svenska) 
Our translations:  FIN
Där simmar på floden en döende svan
och skjuter i silfver sin glänsande ban.
Vid stranden stå skogar af björk och af al,
i kronorna sjunger en fågel så van.
Men svanen är stum in i döden.

Han simmar på flod, han simmar på sjö,
han stänker upp perlor mot vingar af snö
och qvällen begynner att skuggorna strö.
Tyst, svanen får toner! Han börjar att dö,
han börjar att sjunga in i döden.

Förr njöt han och teg, så var ödets beslut,
nu dör han i välljud, nu sjunger han ut.
All njutning allt qval i sin sista minut.
Den tonerna söker, han får dem till slut,
men slocknar i dem liksom svanen.

Text Authorship:

  • by Carl Wilhelm Böttiger (1807 - 1878) [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 Elfrida Andrée (1841 - 1926), "Svanen", 1886 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Joutsen", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Erkki Pullinen

This text was added to the website: 2016-08-16
Line count: 15
Word count: 114

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