MusingsOfHulda

Quilted pillows. 🐝 🌸

“Kan Du Glemme Gamle Norge”/"Can You Forget Old Norway" is right next to "Farewell du mother Norway" in being the most famous Norwegian emigrant song. It originates from the United States where Norwegian-American emigrants used it as a common song on the prairie. It is a song colored with nostalgia and longing for the old country. The verses seem to change slightly depending on the source and time period, as do the translations. This is the closest version (although it would have been sung in their native tongue) many Norwegian pioneers would sing: How Can You Forget Old Norway, land of rock and narrow fjord? Where the mountains are like castles stand like sentinels on guard? How can you forget old Norway, land of everlasting fame? Can you ever find another, with so glorious a name? How can you forget old Norway, and its narrow fjords so grand? In and out between the mountains? ‘Tis my own, my native land.

My first Hardanger embroidery piece. 🇳🇴