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Lyrics for Per Tyrssons Dttar I Vnge by Falconer:
| | | Artist: | Falconer |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Per Tyrssons Dttar I Vnge | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 218 | | | | Lyrics: | [The Ballad of Per Tysson's daughters in Vnge]
[Lyrics: Tradititional, Translation: Mathias
Blad]
Per Tyrsson's daughters in Vnge
Oh how chilly their woods
They were fast
asleep a long time ago
Whilst the woods burst into leaf
The youngest was the first one
to awake
She soon awoke the others
They sat themselves down upon their beds
and
plaited the hair on each other's heads
Then they dressed in clothes of silk
and made
their way to church
When they came to Vnga hill
they met three robbers who held them
still
"Pray, would you care to become robbers' wives?
Or would you rather lose your
lives?"
"We would not care to become robbers' wives.
We would much rather lose our
lives."
They chopped their heads off on birch-wood stem
and soon three wells sprung
forth by them
The bodies were dug down in muddy ground,
the clothes they carried to
Vnga town.
As they arrived in Vnga farm
Fru Karin came to greet them.
"Say,
would you care to buy clothes of silk
that nine maidens have knitted and
crotcheted?"
"Open your bundles and let me see
maybe I know them, all
three."
Fru Karin quivers as never before
and runs to Per Tyrsson who stands by the
door
"There are three robbers outside our farm
they've gotten rid of our
daughters"
Per Tyrsson grabs his sword and then
he runs to slay the two older
men.
He asked the third one before he stroke
"Who is your father and
mother?"
"Our father Per Tyrsson in Vnge,
our mother Fru Karin in Skrnge."
Per
Tyrsson went to the smithy
and forged himself iron round his waist.
"What shall our
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