Tochter sprach zu ihrer alten Mutter

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by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Dottren sade till sin gamla moder

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: FRE GER

[Dottren]¹ sade till sin gamla moder:
"Får ej nu i höst mitt bröllop firas?"
[Modren]² sade: "låt det bli till våren;
Våren, Dotter, passar bäst för bröllop;
Även fågeln bygger bo om våren."
Dottren sade: "Hvarför bli till våren,
[Hvarför]³ passar våren bäst för bröllop;
[Hvad, om fågeln]⁴ bygger bo om våren?
[Hvarje]⁵ årstid, goda moder, passar
Ju för den, som hvarje⁵ årstid, älskar."

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• W. Stenhammar

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¹ Stenhammar: "Dottern"
² Stenhammar: "Modern"
³ modernized to "Varför"
⁴ Stenhammar: "Även fågeln"
⁵ modernized to "varje"

Text Authorship:

by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), no title, appears in Lyriska dikter II, in Idyll och epigram, no. 19, first published 1830 [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 Erkki Gustaf Melartin (1875 - 1937), "Hvarje årstid", op. 171 no. 2 (1931) [ voice and piano ], from Runeberg-sånger = Runeberg songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Wilhelm (Vilhelm) Eugen Stenhammar (1871 - 1927), "Dottern sade", op. 8 no. 2 (1895) [ voice and piano ], from Fem visor ur "Idyll och epigramm" (J. L. Runeberg), no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "La fille dit à sa vieille mère", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Tochter sprach zu ihrer alten Mutter

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Swedish (Svenska)

Tochter sprach zu ihrer alten Mutter:
„Könnt’ ich diesen Herbst noch Hochzeit feiern?“
Mutter sagte: „Warte bis zum Frühling;
Frühling, Tochter, passt zur Hochzeit besser.
Selbst die Vögel baun ihr Nest im Frühling.“
Tochter sagte: „Warum warten bis zum Frühling?
Warum passt der Lenz zur Hochzeit besser,
selbst wenn Vögel baun ihr Nest im Frühling?
Jede Zeit im Jahre, liebe Mutter,
passt all denen, die sich allzeit lieben.“

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Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2017 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 Swedish (Svenska) by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), no title, appears in Lyriska dikter II, in Idyll och epigram, no. 19, first published 1830
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This text was added to the website: 2017-05-02
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