by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 - 1910)
Jeg giver mit Digt til Vaaren
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål)
Our translations: FRE
Jeg giver mit Digt til Vaaren, skjøndt endnu den ej er baaren, jeg giver mit Digt til Vaaren som Længsler til Længsler lagt. Saa slutter de to en Pagt --: at lokke paa Sol med Liste, saa Vinteren Nød maa friste, at slippe et Kor af Bække, saa Sangen ham maa forskrække, at jage ham ud af Luften med idelig Blomsterduften, -- jeg giver mit Digt til Vaaren!
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Text Authorship:
- by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 - 1910), "Jeg giver mit Digt til Vaaren", appears in Fiskerjenten [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), "Jeg giver mit Digt til Vaaren", op. 21 (Fire Dikt fra Fiskerjenten) no. 3 (1870-1872), published 1873 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Johan Gustaf) Emil Sjögren (1853 - 1918), "Jeg giver mit Digt til Våren", op. 1 (Fyra dikter af Ibsen och Björnson) no. 2 (1876) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Franz von Holstein (1826 - 1878) ; composed by Alban Förster, Albert Hahn.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English [singable] (Frederick Corder) , "To Springtime my song I utter"
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "J'offre mon poème au printemps", copyright © 2012, (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.
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