LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,216)
  • Text Authors (19,694)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,115)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Vilhelm Krag (1871 - 1933)

Valborgsnat
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål) 
Træd stilt, træd stilt, det er Valborgsnat !
Det hvisker så sært i det mørke krat,
og hæggen dufter i lunde.
Og nattågen breder sig blå som vang.
og bækken dæmper sin rislende sang,
og alle de blomster blunde.

Se der, de der under orekrat!
Der er dans i skoge ved Valborgsnat
og leg på lønlige veie.
Og guldhønen spiller på silkestreng,
og alverne danser på moseseng,
og blege violer neie.

Og se - der kommer en lygtemand,
han render omkring med en glorød brand
og gir sig til at lyse.
Og myggene vimser i florlet særk,
og græshoppen messer ret som en klerk,
og tussefar snur sin kyse.

Og hæggen dufter ved Valborgsnat,
det hvisker så sært i det mørke krat,
og alver danser i lunde.
Så stilt du sidder i søndagsskrud,
og taus jeg kysser min hvide brud,
mens alle de blomster blunde.

Text Authorship:

  • by Vilhelm Krag (1871 - 1933), "Valborgsnat", appears in Digte, in Sommersange, no. 2, first published 1891 [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 Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Valborgsnat", op. 31 (Ti Sange til Digte af Vilhelm Krag) no. 8, published 1894 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Conrad Baden (1908 - 1989), "Valborgsnat", op. 2 (Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) no. 5, published 1930-5 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sigurd Lie (1871 - 1904), "Valborgsnat" [ voice and piano ], from Seks sange til tekster af Vilhelm Krag, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-06-21
Line count: 24
Word count: 143

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris