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Mireille Kreines

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Aug 5, 2024, 6:37:38 AM8/5/24

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Iremember very well as a young child in Seattle attending the Sons of Norway Sumnerslaget Christmas celebration. Hundreds of salty Norwegians would sing this song in chorus. What a beautiful sound that I quite took for granted.

This was always sang at the funerals of my Norwegian relatives but I never knew the words. The last of that generation died last week and I am so glad to have the translation and music. I will pass it on to my children as I have done with other Norwegian customs.

Wonderful! My choir director knows it is one of my favorites from childhood. The Norwegian Day Parade in Brooklyn, The jule celebration at the Sons of Norway Lodge, and now the complete set of words. How excited am I? All of my Norwegian relatives have passed and I am looking forward to teaching my 5 children this song. Will be singing this as a solo and hopefully have the congregation sing the English lyrics.

I am so happy to have found this! My Norwegian Grandmother taught me this song and I sang it in my church Christmas program as a solo when I was 4 years old. Will never forget it! Now I will be singing it to my 4 grandchildren this Christmas. Thanks for all the wonderful posts here. Talk and God Jul.

Thank you for sharing this history and these remembrances of this beloved Norwegian hymn. Like many of you, I am an American but my grandparents immigrated from Norway. I grew up singing this hymn in church Christmas eve in Colfax Lutheran Church in Colfax, WI. We would like to sing this as a quartet in Norwegian next Christmas eve.