Auf dem Waldweg | Sag, weißt du, wie im Sommer

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by John Olaf Paulsen (1851 - 1924)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

På Skogstien

Language: Norwegian (Bokmål)

Our translations: FRE GER

Sig, husker du i Sommer,
hvor her vi vandred tidt?
Hvert Blad var grønt som Håbet,
hvert Vinddrag solskinsblidt.

Nu Løvet suser falmet
henover blomstløs Jord,
Og i de nøgne Grene
højt sukker Stormens Kor.

Ak, var det blot Naturen,
som kold sig svøbte ind,
Men du, min Ven, du også
som den har skiftet Sind!

Text Authorship:

by John Olaf Paulsen (1851 - 1924), "På Skogstien", written 1876, appears in Mol og Dur [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), "På Skogstien", op. 26 (Fem digt) no. 5 (1876), published 1876 [ voice and piano ], Copenhagen [sung text checked 1 time]

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

FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Sur un sentier forestier", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , " Auf dem Waldweg", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Hans Schmidt) , "Herbststimmung"

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 56

Auf dem Waldweg

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Norwegian (Bokmål)

Sag, weißt du, wie im Sommer
wir gingen Seit an Seit?
Das Laub war grün wie Hoffnung,
die Luft im Sonnenkleid.

Nun rascheln welke Blätter
auf blumenloser Erd’,
und durch die kahlen Äste
der Sturmwind seufzend fährt.

Ach, wäre diese Kälte
nur hier, in der Natur
und nicht in deinem Herzen,
aus dem ich sie erfuhr!

Text Authorship:

Singable translation from Norwegian (Bokmål) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2019 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 Norwegian (Bokmål) by John Olaf Paulsen (1851 - 1924), "På Skogstien", written 1876, appears in Mol og Dur
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This text was added to the website: 2019-08-27
Line count: 12
Word count: 56