Il fait nuit sur les vastes flots

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by Vilhelm Krag (1871 - 1933)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Det er Nat paa vide Vande

Language: Norwegian (Bokmål)

Our translations: FRE

Det er Nat paa vide Vande,
langt fra Lande, [langt fra Lande]¹.
Valborgsnat så lys og skjær.
Lavt mod Nattehimlens Rande
ryger Dagens røde Brande
og om Verden, fjernt og nær,
tindrer tusind Stjernes Hær.

Nat henover vide Vande.

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¹ omitted by Backer-Grøndahl

Text Authorship:

by Vilhelm Krag (1871 - 1933), no title, appears in Sange fra Syden: Reiseindtryk og stemninger, in Nordsjøen, in Valborgsnat paa havet, no. 1, first published 1893 [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), "Valborgsnat paa Havet", op. 31 (Ti Sange til Digte af Vilhelm Krag) no. 2, published 1894 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Det er Nat paa vide Vande", op. 41 (Fem sange for mezzosopran) no. 4 (1897), published 1897 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

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Il fait nuit sur les vastes flots

Language: French (Français) after the Norwegian (Bokmål)

Il fait nuit sur les vastes flots,
loin de la terre, [loin de la terre]¹.
nuit de Valborg si lumineuse et si pure.
Au bord du ciel nocturne
les rouges feux du jour brûlent
et autour du monde, au loin et au près,
l'armée de mille étoiles s'allume.

Nuit, au-dessus des vastes flots.

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Note: La nuit du 30 avril au 1 mai était appelée nuit de Valborg dans les pays scandinave, c'était une fête de printemps au cours de laquelle on faisait brûler des feux de joie.

¹ omis par Backer-Grøndahl

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a text in Norwegian (Bokmål) by Vilhelm Krag (1871 - 1933), no title, appears in Sange fra Syden: Reiseindtryk og stemninger, in Nordsjøen, in Valborgsnat paa havet, no. 1, first published 1893
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This text was added to the website: 2012-02-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 55