When I was in Iceland in August of 1997, I found a little blurb about Rosa Guthmundsdottir on a folk music tape that had Visur Vatnsenda-Rosu on it. I wrote it down in my little book.
Enjoy,
-Stephen
Visur Vatnsenda-Rosu - Rosa Guthmundsdottir
Rosa Guthmundsdottir (1795-1855) was a very intelligent and beautiful girl "who made poetry as fast as other people talked". She was a maid at a magistrate's estate and fell madly in love with his clerk, a handsome and very promising young man. He loved her too but his fate was to make the magistrate's daughter pregnant. His life became one of wealth and happiness; her world was from then on one of poverty and despair. Yet she always loved him and these beautiful verses are a token of her bleeding heart.
When I was in Iceland in August of 1997, I found a little blurb about Rosa Guthmundsdottir on a folk music tape that had Visur Vatnsenda-Rosu on it. I wrote it down in my little book. Enjoy, -Stephen
Visur Vatnsenda-Rosu - Rosa Guthmundsdottir
Rosa Guthmundsdottir (1795-1855) was a very intelligent and beautiful girl "who made poetry as fast as other people talked". She was a maid at a magistrate's estate and fell madly in love with his clerk, a handsome and very promising young man. He loved her too but his fate was to make the magistrate's daughter pregnant. His life became one of wealth and happiness; her world was from then on one of poverty and despair. Yet she always loved him and these beautiful verses are a token of her bleeding heart.