LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,111)
  • Text Authors (19,486)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (1813 - 1882)

Ungbirken
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål) 
En Ungbirken standen ved Fjorden
Og Vandspeilet ganske nær.
Hvor stor og smuk den er vorden
De Aar, jeg har boet her!

Nu löfter den hvide Stamme
Kronen fra Bredden lav.
Men tro dog ej den vil bramme,
Den ved ikke selv deraf.

Du dejlige Birk, du kjære!
Paa dig vil jeg ofte se.
Gud give jeg maatte lære,
Hvad du mig saa smukt kan te:

At vokse i eget Øje
Nedad med hver en Dag.
At krone og at ophöje,
Det vorder da Herrens Sag.

Text Authorship:

  • by Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (1813 - 1882), "Ungbirken" [author's text not yet checked 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 Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907), "Ungbirken", op. 18 (Romanser og sanger) no. 6 (1865-1869), published 1869 [ voice and piano ], Copenhagen [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 86

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris