by Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
Translation by William Archer (1856 - 1924)

Nu løftes Laft og Lofte
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål) 
Our translations:  ENG ITA



        

        
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
  • ENG English [singable]  (Frederick Corder)  , "Margaret's Cradle Song" 
  • ENG English [singable]  (Michael P Rosewall)  , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Anna Maria Norberg-Schulz)  , "La ninna-nanna di Margrete", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 


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Language: English  after the Norwegian (Bokmål) 

        

        
        
        
        
Now roof and rafters blend
with the starry vault on high,
Now flieth little Hākon
on dreamwings through the sky.

There mounts a mighty stairway
from earth to God's own land
There Hakon with the angels goes
climbing hand in hand.

God's angel-babes are watching
thy cot, the still night through,
God bless thee, little Hakon,
thy mother watcheth too.



        

        
Composition:
    Set to music  by Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), "Margrete's cradle song", op. 4 (Four songs) no. 1 (1896), published 1897 [ voice and piano ]
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