by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Hans Georg Møller
Dengang var Gudron beredt til Døden
Language: Danish (Dansk) after the Old Norse (Fornnorræna)
Chosen for Diff
Dengang var Gudrun beredt til Døden, da sorgful hun sad over Sigurds Lig. Ej sad hun og græd og med Hænder slog; ej hun klynked som andre Kvinder. Kloge Jarler til hende kom, varligt de bøjed den haarde Vilje. Dog kunde Gudrun ikke græde; saa hun sørged, som om briste hun skulde.
Text Authorship:
Based on:
- a text in Old Norse (Fornnorræna) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Peter Arnold Heise (1830 - 1879), "Dengang var Gudron beredt til Døden", published 1871 [ soprano and piano ], from Gudruns Sorg: Sange til text af Den ældre Edda, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Philip Schäfer) , "Once Gudrun was ready for death", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Ce jour là Gudrun était prête à mourir", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Philip Schäfer
This text was added to the website: 2004-05-03
Line count: 10
Word count: 52