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by Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)

Agnes, min dejlige sommerfugl
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål) 
Our translations:  FRE
Ejnar:
 Agnes, min dejlige sommerfugl,
 dig vil jeg legende fange!
 Jeg fletter et garn [med]1 masker små,
 og maskerne ere mine sange!

Agnes
 [Er]2 jeg en sommerfugl, liden og skær,
 så lad mig af lyngtoppen drikke;
 og er du en gut, som lyster en leg,
 så jag mig, men fang mig ikke!

Ejnar
 Agnes, min dejlige sommerfugl,
 nu har jeg maskerne flettet;
 dig hjælper visst aldrig din flagrende flugt, --
 snart sidder du fangen i nettet!

Agnes
 [Er]2 jeg en sommerfugl, ung og blank,
 jeg lystig i legen mig svinger;
 men fanger du mig under nettets spind,
 så rør ikke ved mine vinger!

Ejnar
 Nej, jeg skal løfte dig varligt på hånd
 og lukke dig ind i mit hjerte;
 der [kan]3 du lege dit hele liv
 den gladeste leg, du lærte !

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   E. Sjögren 

E. Sjögren sets stanzas 1-4

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1 Backer-Grøndahl: "af"
2 Backer-Grøndahl: "Og er"
3 Backer-Grøndahl: "skal"

Text Authorship:

  • by Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), no title, appears in Brand, Act I [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 Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Agnes min deilige Sommerfugl", op. 2 (Fem Sange) no. 1 (1871), published 1873 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by (Johan Gustaf) Emil Sjögren (1853 - 1918), "Agnes", op. 1 (Fyra dikter af Ibsen och Björnson) no. 1 (1876), stanzas 1-4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914) , "Agnes" ; composed by Emil Bezecný, Robert Kahn.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Agnès", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-02-16
Line count: 25
Word count: 134

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