Valkyrien Allstars – “Kom Hjem” (Come home).

Hey people! 🙂 

 

For today, I’d like to share with you a song by a Norwegian folk group called Valkyrien Allstars. I’ve known about them for a long time and have often heard their music playing on the Norwegian radio or when listening to Norwegian folk in general, but while I did like their sound, somehow I’d never really given them more attention until recently. So since I finally have, and their music has grown on me a bit further, I’d like to share a song by them today. Valkyrien Allstars, also known as Valkyrien, started out as a hardanger fiddle trio (hardanger fiddle is Norway’s national instrument, just in case you haven’t heard about it, although even if you’re not into Scandinavian folk yourself but have been on here before, chances are you have heard it and about it already as it’s not the first time I’m sharing something by someone who plays the hardanger fiddle). Currently it consists of Tuva Livsdatter Syvertsen (who is also the vocalist), and Erik Sollid. Originally Ola Hilmen was also part of the group. This is one of their more pop-y songs. I made a translation, although honestly it’s hard for me to say right now how good or bad it is as I happen to be quite brain-drained currently. 😀 There was one line that made very little sense to me (I have a feeling it would possibly make more sense if I had more brain CPU available at the moment), but I didn’t feel like spending ages on a logophile’s hunt to decrypt it so just copy-pasted it from another existing translation which seemed okay overall, though the accuracy of translations on that particular website can vary greatly, so it may be wrong, as may other bits of my own translation. 

 

Please come back, my friend

Come home

Now you’re in trouble 

You gotta come home

 

Now you’re so far away again

Now it’s time to find a bed

If you’ll be for long down there

Then you may go blind

 

Your eyes, looking at the ceiling

I would rather see you smile

The light is there, hidden by the fog

Rise up, then you’ll see

 

It hurts so much to leave you tonight

Just us two again

Now you must take good care of yourself

You’ll be left behind again one night [?] 

 

Now the day is somewhere else

Wait a few hours and it will come

But you must sleep alone

 

We walk here as if the earth were flat

But things are coming back

And everything just feels completely strange

And no one knows why and no one knows what

 

There is still work to be done 

Still possible to do well

First straight out of the fog

Even if everyone remembers everything you said

 

Now the day is somewhere else

Wait a few hours and it will come

But you must sleep alone