Norwegian to English please

I really love this band they are great!
I would be very glad if someone could translete...


Å høyre du Åsmund Fregdegævar
Hot eg seje deg:
Du hitar detta jønni heitt
Og send ded så hit at meg!

Eg hev vori i dei kristne lando
Der folki kallar på gud
Eg e sterkar hell du

Å ded var Åsmund Fregdegævar
Hoggi han til med avle
Hoggi han til den skomegyvri
Så odden stod i hennas navle

Eg hev vori i dei kristne lando
Der folki kallar på gud
Eg e sterkar hell du

Å Høyre du Åsmund Fregdegævar
Du løyser meg af vånde
Du høgge meg i lyttinne två
Og sja`v imillom dei gange

Eg hev vori i dei kristne lando
Der folki kallar på gud
Eg e sterkar hell du

Å Um så talad den skomegyvri
Då hon datt så daud til jord:
Du skal `ki livands or bergi koma,
Og inki livands ivir den fjord

Eg hev vori i dei kristne lando
Der folki kallar på gud
Eg e sterkar hell du
Eg hev vori i dei kristne lando
Der folki kallar på gud
Eg e sterkar hell du

This isn't easy to translate, (because it isn't written in standard norwegian, but you probably know that) so it's probably therefor I'm the firts to reply.

At least this is th refrain:

Eg hev vori i dei kristne lando (I have been in the christian lands)
Der folki kallar på gud (Where the people are calling on God)
Eg e sterkar hell du (I am stronger than you)

Hopefully someone with more knowlegde about old norwegian can help you some more, or someone with a Telemark-dialect.

Ole

As Ole G mentioned above this is written in an old norwegian language. I’ll try my best to translate it, allthough there migth be lots of errors..


Å høyre du Åsmund Fregdegævar
Listen to me Åsmund Fregdegævar
Hot eg seje deg:
This I will tell you:
Du hitar detta jønni heitt
You find this iron* hot
Og send ded så hit at meg!
And throw it towards me!

Ref.
Eg hev vori i dei kristne lando
I have been to the christian countries
Der folki kallar på gud
Where people are calling for God
Eg e sterkar hell du
I’m stronger than you


Å ded var Åsmund Fregdegævar
It was Åsmund Fregdegævar
Hoggi han til med avle
He hew (his weapon) with power**
Hoggi han til den skomegyvri
He hew the skomegyvri***
Så odden stod i hennas navle
and the tip (of the weapon) was in her umbilicus

Ref.

Å Høyre du Åsmund Fregdegævar
Listen to me Åsmund Fregdegævar
Du løyser meg af vånde
You are releasing me from my sorrows
Du høgge meg i lyttinne två
Cut me in two parts
Og sja`v imillom dei gange
And you will walk between them

Ref.

Å Um så talad den skomegyvri
This is what the skomegyvri said
Då hon datt så daud til jord:
When she fell dead to the ground:
Du skal `ki livands or bergi koma,
You will not come out from the mountain alive
Og inki livands ivir den fjord
And not come out of the fjord**** alive

Ref. x2

*probably refers to a sword
**I’m not sure this is the right translation of the word ”avle”
***Seems like skomegyvri is some kind of a creature(??), maybe from the old norse mythology (??) In this case it’s at least refering to something of a female gender.
****A fjord is a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs, usually formed by glacial erosion (in Norway we have a lot of fjords )

I found this on wikipedia... It migth help to understand the lyrics..

"Åsmund Frægdegjevar is a medieval Norwegian legend and ballad (classification: TSB E 145) with several variations all detailing the adventures of a hero by the same name who is hired by the king to rescue a princess.

The story starts as many fairytales do: the fair princess has been captured and imprisoned in a faraway castle, and the King commissions a hero, in this case Åsmund, to rescue her. He and his brothers take the King's flagship Ormin Lange to the castle of the ogre Skomegyvri, where the princess is imprisoned. However, his brothers will not enter with him, so he goes alone.

He finds the princess with relative ease walking through the castle, and immediately falls in love with her. But she is under a spell of the ogre, and believing that Skomegyvri is her mother, will not leave with him. He then takes her by force.

On his way out, the ogre appears. They fight a long battle both physically and with curses and spells, but Åsmund eventually kills Skomegyvri. The princess being free from the spell, they plunder the castle and return home with all the ogre's treasure."

OMG! thank you so much for that translation i know its been hard for u
and thank you for that information too !
i wish i can speak norwegian ...and go to lumsk concert!

My pleasure

By the way I can see I made an error in the last sentence in the last verse... The proper translation is

"Og inki livands ivir den fjord"
"And not cross the fjord alive"

I really think you should learn norwegian!! I've actually got a friend from Turkey who moved to Norway, and learned Norwegian really well in about 6 months!!!

If you like Lumsk I think you also might like the band 'Gåte', another norwegian folk rock band.

Here is some links to Gåte at youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GekKPIcoBlQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mes1p...eature=related

well if i can move to Norwat it wouldnt also take so long for me to learn the language ..But im living in Turkey and theres no norwegian course here!

I ve heard about Gate but i couldnt find their mp3 or smthn ...Thank you for that too!

Thank you for translating another Lumsk song =)

You should put the name somewhere.. I lytinne tvaa (I first thought it was Skomegyvri, but there's another song for him!)

My pleassure

I absolutely agree the name of the song should be the headline of this thread...
By the way, in this song Skomegyvri is a female

ah yes sorry ..my bad