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    Can Someone Help with 2 Danish or Swedish Nursery Rhymes? We Have a Recording of Them!

    Looking for the Norwegian Version of the “Rita Rita Runkin” Poem

    Question about the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Nursery Rhyme “Ride Ride Ranke”

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    Can Someone Help with 2 Danish or Swedish Nursery Rhymes? We Have a Recording of Them!

    Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

    Lori wrote:

    Dear Mama Lisa,

    I am so excited to find this website because I have been searching for many years to find out about two Danish or Swedish nursery rhymes (you can listen to them by clicking the link). My mother’s beloved grandfather, Lars Christensen, used to bounce her on his knee and recite these rhymes. She then passed them on to me…and neither one of us know what they mean. Lars’ parents were both from Denmark: His father from the Brenderup, Odense, area and his mother from Lynge, Juteland area. So we think the rhymes may be Danish and probably date from the early 1800’s. However, Lars’ wife’s parents were from Sweden: Her father from Vallby, Kirkedinge area and her mother from Sallerup, Malmohus area. So there is a possibility that they are Swedish.

    They might be so distorted coming from the mouth of an old Danish man through the memory of a small American girl and passed on to another generation, but I am hopeful that someone may recognize them.

    My dear mother’s 80th birthday is coming up and I would love to surprise her with a written version or reading of the original, an English interpretation, or any information about any one of these two nursery rhymes. No matter how silly, they are very important to us because they are a link to our sacred, and loved ancestral roots.

    Thank you so much,

    Lori

    If anyone can help out Lori, please let us know in the comments below.

    Thanks!

    Mama Lisa

    PS We know the first rhyme is a version of Ride ride ranke, and Lori checked the versions posted on the blog in the past, but couldn’t find it there.

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    Looking for the Norwegian Version of the “Rita Rita Runkin” Poem

    Sunday, May 7th, 2006

    I received this email today about Rita Rita Runkin

    I too am looking for the correct spelling and words for Rita Rita Runkin in Norwegian. I understand it to read this way in English…

    Ride Ride the Runkin horse
    To the millers house….

    I don’t know the next lines except that it is about a kittapus (cat) and it goes MEOW.

    Please let me know if anyone can help…

    I need it for Mothers’ Day! I’d be happy to find the words after that too, of course!

    R. BERG

    Please comment below if you can help.

    Thanks!

    Lisa

    P.S. Check out a previous post and comments about Rita Rita Runkin.

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    Question about the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Nursery Rhyme “Ride Ride Ranke”

    Saturday, December 31st, 2005

    Pamela wrote me about a rhyme that I’ve been asked about many times. Here’s what she wrote…

    Hello,

    I am interested in finding a nursery rhyme in the Danish language which I learned as a child and have passed on to my children as well. I hope you can help me locate this rhyme. It is about an alligator or crocodile sneaking up on someone sitting on a log at the edge of a lake. I am probably not remembering the Danish words correctly, and I don’t speak Danish at all, but it sounds something like this:

    A rita, rita, runkin
    Demile hans hoose,
    Devoon yemoon
    Kot on a moose
    On little wahoon
    Syin on a bankin
    Slick upon a slick a sow
    Woof! Woof! Woof!

    I have probably completely ruined the rhyme with my bad memory, but I am very interested in learning it correctly. The Woof! Woof! Woof! Part is where the alligator eats the person.

    Thank you!

    If anyone knows this rhyme, many people out there would be grateful for the corrrect words. Please comment below or email me with the correct version!

    Thanks!

    Lisa

    UPDATE: I posted one Swedish version of Rida rida ranka on my Swedish Song Pages, one Danish version of Rida rida ranke, and 2 Norwegian Versions of Rida rida ranke on Mama Lisa’s World’s Norway pages.

    More versions in the comments below…

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