🌲 Troll Tales 🌲

Vi skal ikkje sova bort sumarnatta (”We shall not sleep away the summer night”), probably one of the most beautiful songs in the world. The text is from a poem by Aslaug Låstad Lygre, written while she was at a tuberculosis sanatorium, surrounded by the dead and dying.

We should not sleep away the summer night,                                                    it is too light for that.                                                                                          Then we shall wander together in the open                                                    under the trees that are heavy under their leaves

Then we shall wander together in the open where flowers in the grass are standing We shall not sleep away the summer night which with dew our hair does fuss

We shall not sleep away from the smell of hay and the singing of the grasshoppers in the fields but wander together under the pale blue sky till the birds lift their wings