Bærinn minn
Bærinn minn og þinn
Sefur sæll í kyrrð
Fellur mjöll
Hljótt í húmi á jörð
Grasið mitt
Grasið mitt og þitt
Geymir mold til vors
Hjúfrar lind
Leynt við brekkurót
Vakir eins og við
Lífi trútt
Kyrrlátt kalda vermsl
Augum djúps
Utí himinfyrrð
Starir stillt um nótt
Langt í burt
Vakir veröld stór
Grimmum töfrum tryllt
Eirðarlaus
Ottast nótt og dag
Augu þín
Ottalaus og hrein
Brosa við mér björt
Vonin mín
Blessað brosið þitt
Vekur ljóð úr værð
Hvílist jörð
Hljóð í örmum snæs
Liljuhvít
Lokar augum blám
Litla stúlkan mín
My farm
My farm and yours
Sleeps happily at peace
Falls snow
Silent at dusk on earth
My grass
My grass and yours
Keeps the earth til spring
Nesting spring
Hid at the hill's root
Awake as are we
Faith in life
Quiet cold spring
Eye of the depths
Into the firmament
Staring still in the night
Far away
Wakes the great world
Mad with grim enchantment
Disquieted
Fearful of night and day
Your eyes
Fearless and serene
Smile bright at me
My hope
Your blest smile
Rouses verse from sleep
The earths rests
Silent in arms of snow
Lily white
Closes her blue eyes
My little girl
Bærinn minn og þinn
Sefur sæll í kyrrð
Fellur mjöll
Hljótt í húmi á jörð
Grasið mitt
Grasið mitt og þitt
Geymir mold til vors
Leynt við brekkurót
Vakir eins og við
Lífi trútt
Kyrrlátt kalda vermsl
Augum djúps
Utí himinfyrrð
Starir stillt um nótt
Vakir veröld stór
Grimmum töfrum tryllt
Eirðarlaus
Ottast nótt og dag
Augu þín
Ottalaus og hrein
Brosa við mér björt
Blessað brosið þitt
Vekur ljóð úr værð
Hvílist jörð
Hljóð í örmum snæs
Liljuhvít
Lokar augum blám
Litla stúlkan mín
My farm and yours
Sleeps happily at peace
Falls snow
Silent at dusk on earth
My grass
My grass and yours
Keeps the earth til spring
Hid at the hill's root
Awake as are we
Faith in life
Quiet cold spring
Eye of the depths
Into the firmament
Staring still in the night
Wakes the great world
Mad with grim enchantment
Disquieted
Fearful of night and day
Your eyes
Fearless and serene
Smile bright at me
Your blest smile
Rouses verse from sleep
The earths rests
Silent in arms of snow
Lily white
Closes her blue eyes
My little girl
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Well, it is, in fact, a lullaby. I had been singing it to myself since Medulla came out, and now I have my own blue-eyed one-year-old girl. And since she was born, falls asleep almost every night listening to me singing the song. It's perfect (and works very well as a lullaby :-)
I love it...made me want to sleep to it xD
anyway...i was going over the lyrics and i think icelandic is easy...so i want to take classes =D anyway...this is what i have for now...
the R makes the same sound when you have two R's in spanish. rr. minn & mín i think are ways of saying "my" or "mine" og = and þ = ph sound i = eh sound ö = the e in "jerk" xD
i think you really have to soun out every letter. or most at least.
i had more but i have to get ready for bed =)
hey it also makes me want to learn icelandic! anyway, if you bjork on over to http://www.bjork.com and go to the lyrics section in the Medulla album, you'll find out the english equivalent of this song.
(http://www.bjork.com/facts/lyrics/album.php?album=Med%FAlla&era=Bj%F6rk#Vökuró)
i heard that this song is an old icelandic song that bjork updated. i know that vokuro means vigil in icelandic. its a really cool song. makes me want to learn icelandic.
I was sitting here listening to the song and her singing it.. I'm with you guys.. I wonder if it's going to be hard... LOL :)
No, it's not really that difficult, I speak it fluently :P
This song is so beautiful.
And me, just like anyone else, wants to learn it.
Raving, wanna tell me how you learned it?
She just sings this so beautifully. Almost like a lullaby.
lols this is a great song ;) I hope you all learn Icelandic but I heard it was one of the 3 hardest language in the world ;) but if you know any northen language it's more easy for you all
þ is a TH sound, not ph. so is ð, only more like in "weather" whereas þ would be closer to the sound in "thick". Icelandic is NOT easy...it has some of the most wacky grammatical rules ever.