Hi!
It seems to me to be either danish or norwegian the way they wrote before
1900. Do you know the writer? Anyway, 19th century norwegian was practicly
danish, so it is danish.

Christine

>From: "Mircea P." <mircea@...>
>Reply-To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
>To: <norse_course@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [norse_course] An unknown language ....
>Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 23:09:58 +0200
>
>Hello!
>I'm an Italian student and I'm learning Old Norse since the beginning of
>may...
>I started while I was trying to understand some lyrics from a song,
>thinking
>that they were in Old Norse... but now that I've learnt a little, it seems
>to me that that language was not really Old Norse... so now I'm really
>curious about theese mysterious songs and I wonder if there is anybody able
>to recognise what language I was dealing with.
>Here are the lyrics (there may be some errors, but not too many):
>
>I Troldskog Faren Vild
>
>De ventede T�sens Hiemkomst
>Hun vaer i m�rck Skog faren vild
>Sneens Tepper hafde bredet sig hen
>Paa Stien hiem - hendes eeneste Ven
>
>Om hun bare kunde
>Folge Stiernernes Baner
>Ey hun skulde vildfare
>Blandt disse m�rcke Graner
>
>Skogens m�rcke Arme forbarmede sig ofver dend fremmede Gi�st
>Giorde hende vaer i siine inderste Tankers Veemod
>At i Bergekongens Kammer t�rstes efter Christenblod
>
>[De Underjordiske:]
>"Det n�rmer sig stille: Een s�rgekl�st Pige
>Sidder derinde med foldede H�nder
>Hun sender een B�n til det himmeldske Rige"
>
>Ofver hendes Hode
>Det drybber fra Qviist
>Draabe for Draabe som Blodet
>Fra Kroppen til Jesu Christ
>
>[Pigen:]
>"Aa, eismal i ein uggin Skog
>Eg kjenn at i Kveld
>I Kveld tenkjer ingen paa meg"
>
>I apologize if I'm a little bit off-topic, and I thank really a lot to
>anynone that can help me!!
>Bye!
>Mircea.
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