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Da sagde Herborg, Hunelands Dronning: "Jeg har en haardere Harm at fortælle. Fjernt i Sønden mine syv Sønner faldt paa Val med deres Fader. Med Fader og Moder og fire Brødre leged Vinden paa Havets Vove; Bølgen slog mod Skibets Planker. Selv skulde jeg dem smykke, selv dem begrave, og selv for deres Helfart sørge. Alt det jeg led i et eneste Aar, og Ingen talte et Ord til Trøst." Dog kunde Gudrun ikke græde; saa mod var hun i Hu over den døde Mand, saa fuld af Smerte ved Fyrstens Ligfærd.
Text Authorship:
Based on:
- a text in Old Norse (Fornnorræna) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Peter Arnold Heise (1830 - 1879), "Da sagde Herborg", 1871, published 1871 [ voice and piano ], from Gudruns Sorg: Sange til text af Den ældre Edda, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Philip Schäfer) , "Thus said Herborg, queen of Huneland", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Alors Herborg, la reine du Huneland parla ainsi", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Philip Schäfer
This text was added to the website: 2023-10-01
Line count: 17
Word count: 92
Thus said Herborg, queen of Huneland: "I have still much harder sorrow to tell. Far in the South my seven sons Died in the battlefield with their father. My father and my mother and my four brothers Fell victim to the wind on the waves of the water; The breakers stroke against the ship's planks. I had to adorn him myself, To bury him myself, And to mourn for my kin myself. This all I sustained in a summer, And no one spoke a word of comfort to me." But Gudrun did not know a tear; Her mind was so grieved over her husband's death, So full of grief About the prince's dead body.
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Based on:
- a text in Danish (Dansk) by Hans Georg Møller
Based on:
- a text in Old Norse (Fornnorræna) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2023-10-01
Line count: 17
Word count: 114