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by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 - 1910)

Det første mødes sødme
 (Sung text for setting by M. White)
 See original
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Det første mødes sødme,
det er som sang i skogen,
det er som sang på vågen
i solens sidste rødme, --
det er som horn i uren
de tonende sekunder,
hvori vi med naturen
forenes i et under.

Note: another form of the text can be found in Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne. Samlede Værker, Mindeutgave, Første bind, Kristiania og Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1910, p. 80:

Det første møtes sødme,
det er som sang i skogen,
det er som sang på vågen
i solens siste rødme, --
det er som horn i uren,
de tonende sekunder,
hvori vi med naturen
forenes i et under.

Note: White uses "forenes Inett under" as the last line (possibly a typo).

Composition:

    Set to music by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "Det første mødes sødme", published 1888? [ voice and piano ], from New Albums of Songs with German and English Words, Volume 1, no. 4, London: Pitt & Hatzfeld ; see the footnotes section above, also set in English

Text Authorship:

  • by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 - 1910), no title, appears in Fiskerjenten

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Nigel Parker) , "The sweetness of a first meeting", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "La première rencontre", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Franz von Holstein) , "Erstes Begegnen"


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 37

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