by Vilhelm Krag (1871 - 1933)
Det er Nat paa vide Vande
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål)
Our translations: FRE
Det er Nat paa vide Vande, langt fra Lande, langt fra Lande. 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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View text with all available footnotesText 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]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2007-10-04
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