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by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877)
Translation © by Erkki Pullinen

Fågelfängaren
Language: Swedish (Svenska) 
Our translations:  ENG FIN FRE
Jag vandrar fram på skogens ban,
Och blickar opp i tall och gran,
Och ofta nog jag fåglar ser,
Men ingen flyger ner.

Och var och en tycks fly den stråt,
Där jag har utsatt mitt försåt,
Och lika tomhänt, som jag kom,
Jag måste vända om.

Jag borde se med sorg och ångst
På min bedragna fågelfångst,
Men huru felt det än må slå,
Är jag förnöjd ändå.

Jag har en snara kvar till slut,
Som aldrig lämnats tom förut,
Dit fågeln lika gärna går,
Som jag densamma får.

Och när jag kommer hem igen,
Jag gillrar än i afton den,
Och flicka lyder fågelns namn,
Och snaran är min famn.

Text Authorship:

  • by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877) [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 Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Fågelfängaren", op. 90 (6 sånger (Six Songs)) no. 4 (1917) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The birdcatcher", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Linnustaja", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le chasseur d'oiseaux", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website: 2004-07-05
Line count: 20
Word count: 112

Linnustaja
Language: Finnish (Suomi)  after the Swedish (Svenska) 
Minä kuljen metsän polkuja
ja tarkkailen mäntyjen ja kuusien latvoja,
ja useinkin näen kyllä lintuja,
mutta mikään niistä ei lennä alas.

Ja jokainen niistä tuntuu välttelevän paikkoja,
joihin olen ansani asettanut,
ja yhtä tyhjin käsin kuin tulinkin
joudun palaamaan takaisin.

Minun pitäisi kai olla surullinen ja pettynyt,
kun linnunpyyntini ei onnistunut,
mutta miten väärin se nyt sitten onkaan,
olen kuitenkin tyytyväinen.

Onhan minulla jäljellä vielä yksi ansa,
joka ei vielä koskaan ole jäänyt tyhjäksi,
jonne lintu menee yhtä mielellään
kuin minä saan sen saaliikseni.

Kunhan palaan taas kotiin,
viritän sen vielä illalla,
ja se saalislintu on tyttöni
ja se ansa on oma sylini.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to Finnish (Suomi) copyright © 2010 by Erkki Pullinen, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.

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Based on:

  • a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877)
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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-14
Line count: 20
Word count: 103

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