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Can Someone Help with a Norwegian Lullaby?

Janice wrote:

My grandmother used to sing me a Norwegian song that sounded like this:

Kishey louie barnay
Glueten stewie yarnay

I remember that it meant “Rock-a-bye my baby, put her in the kettle”, but of course my mom says that’s not true!

Do you have any idea what the song was or what the translation would be?

Thanks,

Janice

If anyone can help out with the lyrics to this Norwegian lullaby and/or an English translation, please comment below.

Thanks in advance!

Mama Lisa

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This entry was posted on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 at 6:22 pm and is filed under Children's Songs, Countries & Cultures, Languages, Lullabies, Norway, Norwegian, Norwegian Children's Songs, Questions, Readers Questions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “Can Someone Help with a Norwegian Lullaby?”

1. Mari Says:
   July 28th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

   Can someone help with a Norwegian children’s song… the translation is something like
   “We two, me and you
   Went to sea in a shoe
   The shoe sank and we swam to England
   Where we met a fiddler
   The fiddler played and the fiddle sang.”

2. Live Kvernmo Says:
   August 1st, 2008 at 10:17 am

   Du og jeg og vi to
   seilte i en tresko
   Treskoen velva,
   du og jeg i elva

   Da vi kom til England,
   møtte vi en spellemann
   Spellemannen spelte til fela sprakk
   Og vi dansa,
   svinsa og svansa
   Låten den gjorde oss begge så glad

   Heim vi reiste,
   seilet vi heiste
   Turen i tresko’n var flott, hurra!

3. Morten Says:
   August 18th, 2008 at 10:06 am

   Hi,

   Guess you are looking for Kysje roe banegull….

   If you google it, you will find many sites to download from. It’s an old lullaby…. in really difficult dialect from Telemark (google it ..) … not to easy to translate… But I believe that the first line: “Kysje” = something you put on a baby’s head (http://www.mortil3.no/shop.asp?p=22132029&x=&imgActive=bilde4), roe = calm down, “barnegull” = sweet baby… (barne = child, and gull = gold)

   Couldn’t catch the last phrase thoug…..

4. Sølvi Skylstad Says:
   September 19th, 2008 at 8:42 am

   Kishey luie barney

   That must be:
   Byssan lulle barnet
   gryta henger i jarnet
   koka deilig rjomegraut åt det vesle barnet.

5. Sonia Says:
   April 14th, 2009 at 9:47 pm

   Hi,
   I’m also trying to find the correct pronunciation for some Norwegian lullabys. Can anyone phonetically spell out this song? Er du veldig glad og vet det (If You’re Happy And You Know It) Children’s Song
   I need to sing some songs in Norwegian for an Ibsen play I’m doing. Thank you!
   (Norwegian)

   Er du veldig glad og vet det,
   Ja så klapp
   Er du veldig glad og vet det
   Ja så klapp
   Er du veldig glad og vet det
   Så la alle menn’sker se det
   Er du veldig glad og vet det
   Ja, så klapp.

6. Lisa Says:
   April 15th, 2009 at 7:57 pm

   You can hear a version on YouTube at

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwO5j-TAuHQ

   Hope that helps! Can anyone else help Sonia out?

   -Mama Lisa

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