Per Tyrssons Dttar I Vnge Lyrics

Per Tyrssons Dttar I Vnge 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 retributi