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by Anders Hovden (1860 - 1943)
Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Fedralandssong aat Ungdomen
Language: Norwegian (Nynorsk) 
Our translations:  FRE
Heilag, heilag er fedres jord!
Me traar med vort blod i brand.
Heimatt til far og heimatt til mor
og heimatt til fedreland.
Her av den gamle, heimlige grunnen
federnes heilhuga manndom er runnen.
Her vert han funnen 
dugen, som evlar det federne vann! 

Nok og lenge vaar heimhug seig 
og vingla og veikna av,
lell vaart Norig med velde steig
so bjart er det vreide hav,
tindarne blenkte, bredarne braga,
fossarne dura og skogarne svaga;
nordröna saga 
kvad os i öyro dei daadstore krav.

Vænt er Norig um fjell og fjord
og fangar vaar heite traa.
Odlar, adlar me denne jord
fraa Kölen til baara blaa.
Leidi er klaar, og hugmaali vaara,
stemmer som solfyllte segl yver baara,
smilet og taara 
glitrer som dogg yver bryddande straa.

Heimatt til far og heimatt til mor,
og heimatt til fedreland.
Heimatt til maalets malm og ord,
som hyser vaar fedra-and'.
Her hev me gror aat evna og dugen
solrennings song gjennom modet og hugen,
Ungdommen trugen vaknar og sprjenger 
dei framande band.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anders Hovden (1860 - 1943) [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 Christian Sinding (1856 - 1941), "Fedralandssong aat Ungdomen", op. 55 no. 12, published 1902 [ voice and piano ], from Sylvelin og andre viser, no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Paul Okkenhaug.

  • Go to the text. [ view differences ]

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

  • DAN Danish (Dansk) [singable] (Gustav Hetsch) , "Fædrelandssang til Ungdommen"
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Chant patriotique à la jeunesse", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Wilhelm Henzen) , "Vaterländisches Lied für die Jugend"


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-07-25
Line count: 32
Word count: 171

Chant patriotique à la jeunesse
Language: French (Français)  after the Norwegian (Nynorsk) 
Sainte, sainte est la terre de nos pères !
Nous la foulons, avec notre sang enflammé.
Retour au père, retour à la mère,
retour à la patrie.
C'est ici, de cette vieille terre familière
qu'est née la noble vaillance de nos ancêtres.
C'est ici que l’on retrouve encore
la force de poursuivre l’œuvre qu’ils ont accomplie !

Il y a longtemps, bien longtemps, notre amour du pays
s'affaiblit, vacilla et fléchit ;
pourtant notre Norvège se dressait dans sa puissance,
éclatante comme une mer en colère.
Les sommets resplendissaient, les glaciers tonnaient,
les cascades mugissaient, les forêts murmuraient ;
la saga nordique
chantait à nos oreilles les nobles devoirs des héros.

Belle est la Norvège avec ses monts et ses fjords,
et elle captive notre ardent désir.
Cultivons, ennoblissons cette terre,
des monts du Kölen jusqu'aux vagues bleues.
La voie est ouverte, et nos aspirations
résonnent comme des voiles gonflées de soleil sur les vagues ;
le sourire et les larmes
étincellent comme la rosée sur les brins d'herbe qui pointent.

Retour au père, retour à la mère,
retour à la patrie.
Retour à la force vive de notre langue, à ses paroles,
où demeure l'esprit de nos ancêtres.
Ici ont grandi notre force et notre valeur ;
le chant de l'aurore traverse le courage et le cœur.
La jeunesse fidèle
s'éveille et brise les chaînes étrangères.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from Norwegian (Nynorsk) to French (Français) copyright © 2026 by Pierre Mathé, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

  • a text in Norwegian (Nynorsk) by Anders Hovden (1860 - 1943)
    • Go to the text page.

 

This text was added to the website: 2026-07-20
Line count: 32
Word count: 221

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