Ask veit eg stande
Language: Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Ask veit eg stande, heiter Yggdrasil, høgt tre, vatna med kvitande vaag. Derfraa kjem dogg som i dalane fell. Stend alltid han grøn yvir Urdarbrunnen.
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Authorship:
- from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , from 'Den eldre Edda'; collected by Magnus Brostrup Landstad. [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 David Monrad Johansen (1888 - 1974), "Ask veit eg stande
", op. 15 no. 6, from Voluspå, no. 6. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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