It is a beautiful song, and it is a nice translation. Ofcourse it is not as strong as when on norwegian, but it is hard to find translated poems which manage to keep all the force and vigor as on the original language.
I agree with njordy 10 years ago. But I think lyric has to be different from poetry. They are not the same. Each has it's own power. A lot of the power of the lyric comes from the necessary brevity--I hate to use the word simplification as some will read it as "simplistic". It's clearly not simplistic. I first read the poem in Norwegian and that led me to this video. My Norwegian isn't very strong, but I hope I got some feel for the original. I enjoy the work both ways.
It's Elfgirl93 (real name unknown to me), but she has removed all videos from her channel. You hear her sing the Norwegian version here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6qDCx1iM4aA.html
Well a song sung in norwegian wouldnt display much spirit or intent to people who cannot speak the language, hence why its translated so others may also understand, even if you believe it is lesser for it.
While a very beautiful song, this is a rather poor translation of the original, nor does it properly display the spirit and intent behind the original.
