- Ålänningens sång
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Ålänningens sång English: Song of the Ålander
Regional anthem of
Åland IslandsLyrics John Grandell Music Johan Fridolf Hagfors Adopted 1922 Ålänningens sång (English: "Song of the Ålander"; Finnish: "Ahvenanmaalaisten laulu), is the official anthem of the Åland Islands, an autonomous Swedish-speaking province of Finland. Adopted in 1922, the anthem's words are by John Grandell and the music was composed by Johan Fridolf Hagfors.
Lyrics
- Original lyrics
- Verse 1
- Landet med tusende öar och skär,
- danat ur havsvågors sköte.
- Åland, vårt Åland, vår hembygd det är.
- Dig går vår längtan till möte!
- Forngravars kummel i hängbjörkars skygd
- tälja din tusenårs saga.
- Aldrig förgäta vi fädernas bygd,
- vart vi i fjärrled än draga
- vart vi i fjärrled än draga
- Verse 2
- Skönt är vårt Åland när fjärdar och sund
- blåna i vårljusa dagar,
- ljuvt är att vandra i skog och i lund,
- i strändernas blommande hagar.
- Midsommarstången mot aftonröd sky
- reses av villiga händer,
- ytterst i utskärens fiskareby
- ungdomen vårdkasar tänder
- ungdomen vårdkasar tänder
- Verse 3
- Skönt är vårt Åland när vågsvallet yr
- högt mot de mäktiga stupen
- när under stjärnhimlen kyrkfolket styr
- över de islagda djupen.
- Ryter än stormen, i stugornas ro
- spinnrocken sjunger sin visa
- minnet av barndomens hägnande bo
- sönerna lyckligast prisa
- sönerna lyckligast prisa.
- Verse 4
- Aldrig har åländska kvinnor och män
- svikit sin stam och dess ära;
- ofärd oss hotat, men segervisst än
- frihetens arvsrätt vi bära.
- Högt skall det klinga, vårt svenska språk,
- tala med manande stämma,
- lysa vår väg som en flammande båk,
- visa var vi äro hemma
- visa var vi äro hemma
- English translation
- Verse 1
- The land of thousand islands and skerries,
- Born from deep beneath the waves
- Åland, our Åland, our home it is
- Thee we long to meet
- Ancient graves beneath the birches
- Tells of our thousand year history
- We will never forget the land of our Fathers
- No matter where we will go
- No matter where we will go
- Verse 2
- Lovely is our Åland when bays and straits
- Become blue in the bright days of spring
- It's delightful to wander in forest and grove
- In the flowered fields of our shores.
- Midsummer pole to evening red sky
- Is raised by willing hands
- Farthest out in the skerry fisher village
- Beacons are lit by the young
- Beacons are lit by the young
- Verse 3
- Lovely is our Åland when the froth of waves
- is whirling against the mighty precipice
- When the church folks steer beneath the stars
- Over the icy depths of the sea
- Even when storm roars, in the cottages' peace
- The song of the spinning wheel is sung
- The memory of loving childhood is
- Happily praised by the sons
- Happily praised by the sons
- Verse 4
- Never have Alandian women and men
- Let the honour of their tribe down
- Warfare threatened us, but victoriously yet
- We carry the heritage of freedom
- Loudly shall it sound, our Swedish language
- Spoken with an urging voice
- Enlighten our path like a sea mark of flames
- Show us where we belong
- Show us where we belong
See also
External links
- (Swedish) Mariehamns Town Library, Government of the Åland Islands. "Ålänningens sång". http://www.mhbibl.aland.fi/alandica/alsang. Retrieved 2006-04-15.
- (English) Aland Islands, Nationalanthems.info. "Aland Islands". Archived from the original on 2006-12-05. http://web.archive.org/web/20061205225741/http://www.nationalanthems.info/ax.txt. Retrieved 2006-04-15.
- Ålänningens sång MP3
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