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by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912)

Gebt Raum, ihr Völker, unserm Schritt
Language: German (Deutsch) 
    Gebt Raum, ihr Völker, unserm Schritt,
  Wir sind die letzten Goten!
Wir tragen keine Krone mit,
  Wir tragen einen Toten.
Mit Schild an Schild und Speer an Speer,
  Wir ziehn nach Nordlands Winden,
Bis wir im fernsten grauen Meer,
  Die Insel Thule finden.

    Das soll der Treue Insel sein,
  Dort gilt noch Eid und Ehre,
Dort senken wir den König ein,
  Im Sarg der Eschenspeere.
Wir kommen her -- gebt Raum dem Schritt --
  Aus Romas falschen Toren:
Wir tragen nur den König mit --
  Die Krone ging verloren.

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Note: a four-stanza version exists in Dahn's collected works with the title "Gotenzug"

Text Authorship:

  • by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912), no title, appears in Ein Kampf um Rom, first published 1876 [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 Rudolf Bella (1890 - 1973), "Gotenzug", op. 53 no. 1, published [1951] [ men's chorus ], Zürich : Musikverlag zum Pelikan [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Camillo Horn (1860 - 1941), "Gothenzug", op. 12, published 1906-1913 [ men's chorus and piano or orchestra ], Leipzig, Kahnt Nachfolger [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Die letzten Gothen", op. 75 (45 Lieder für dreistimmigen Chor a capella) no. 9 (1924) [ three-part chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Emma Raddatz , "Gothenzug", op. 6, published 1892 [ bass and piano ], Berlin, Glas [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker (1844 - 1906), "Gotenzug", op. 137, published 1899 [ four-part men's chorus with woodwinds or piano ], Leipzig, Verlag Fr. Kistner [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Carl Julius Schmidt (1851 - 1917), "Gothenzug", op. 6 (Drei Lieder für Männerchor) no. 1, published 1886 [ men's chorus ], Leipzig, Licht & Meyer [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Frank Rauchenecker

This text was added to the website: 2009-06-10
Line count: 16
Word count: 94

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