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Löfven de falla, Sjöarna frysa... Flyttande svanor, Seglen, o seglen Sorgsna till södern, Söken dess nödspis, Längtande åter; Plöjen dess sjöar, Saknande våra! Då skall ett öga Se er från palmens Skugga och tala: "Tynande Svanor, Hvilken förtrollning Hvilar på norden? Den som från södern Längtar, hans längtan Söker en himmel."
Note: modern spelling would change "Löfven" to "Löven" and remove the leading 'H' for "Hvilken" and "Hvilar".
Authorship:
- by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), "Norden", appears in Lyriska dikter II [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 Harald Fryklöf (1882 - 1919), "Norden" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Norden", op. 90 (6 sånger (Six Songs)) no. 1 (1917) [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David McCleery) , "The North", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Pohjola", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le Nord", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der Norden", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 51
Blätter, sie fallen, Seen überfrieren. - Schwäne, sie ziehen, segeln, ach segeln traurig gen Süden, suchen dort Nahrung, Heimat ersehnend, pflügen die Seen, uns’re vermissend! Dann wird ein Auge aus Palmens Schatten sehn euch und sagen: „Schmachtende Schwäne, was für ein Zauber liegt auf dem Norden? Sehnsucht aus Süden - Sehnen ist’s nach den Himmeln des Nordens."
Authorship:
- Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2018 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), "Norden", appears in Lyriska dikter II
This text was added to the website: 2018-04-20
Line count: 18
Word count: 57