Can anyone help with a Danish Nursery Rhyme?
Tim wrote:
Can anyone help with a Danish Nursery Rhyme called “Madiesen”? I am unsure about the spelling.
Apparently it is about a young boy riding a pig and falling through the ice.
Thanks,
Tim
If anyone can help with the Danish lyrics, and/or an English translation, please comment below.
Thanks!
Lisa










August 29th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Hi Lisa
This is the Danish rhyme inquired about (I think)
Peter Mathiesen red på grisen
over isen med avisen.
Først gik isen
så gik grisen
og så gik lille Peter Mathiesen
(roughly translated)
Petert Mathiesen rode the pig
across the ice with the newspaper
First went the ice
then went the pig and then went little Peter Mathiesen.
I’m not aware of a tune, think it’s only a rhyme
August 30th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Thanks for the speedy response! If you’d like to record it, I’d be happy to post you (or someone else) reciting it!
Mama Lisa
July 20th, 2009 at 8:11 am
There is a melody but I unfortunaetly dont know it. I remember as much as that its published in the Danish childrens song book “De Smaa Synger” but I dont have it with me where I live at the moment, so I cant post it :(
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:37 am
“Peter Mathiesen” isn’t in “De små synger” (nor in “Min første sangbog” either). So would the tune be to another song from the first one?