Английская Википедия:I går såg jag ditt barn, min Fröja

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I går såg jag ditt barn, min Fröja (Yesterday saw I your child, my Freya), is a ballad from the Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman's 1790 collection, Fredman's Epistles, where it is No. 28. The epistle is subtitled "Om et anstäldt försåt emot Ulla Winblad." (About an ambush of Ulla Winblad). It describes an attempt to arrest the "nymph" Ulla Winblad, based on a real event. The lyrics create a rococo picture of life, blending classical allusion and pastoral description with harsh reality.

Context

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Song

Music and verse form

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The song has five verses, each of 8 lines. The verses have the alternating rhyming pattern ABAB-CDCD. The music is in [[3/4 time|Шаблон:Music time]], and is marked Andante.[1] The melody was reworked by Joseph Martin Kraus from a Languedoc folk tune; it is accompanied throughout by rapid, nervous quavers (eighth notes), giving the Epistle in Edward Matz's view a cinematic slow motion effect.Шаблон:Sfn The melody was used by "several parodists" in the 18th century; it had timbres (named melodies) including "Quoi–" and "Ah! ma voisine, es-tu fâchée?" which the musicologist James Massengale suggests Bellman may have had in mind.Шаблон:Sfn

Lyrics

etching of harbour scene
Detail from etching "The steps on Skeppsbro" depicting a scene in Stockholm's harbour by Elias Martin, 1800. The central figure is popularly supposed to represent Ulla Winblad, the bawdy non-mythological heroine of Epistle 28.

The song is dated 17 August 1771.[2] The epistle is subtitled "Om et anstäldt försåt emot Ulla Winblad" ("About an attempted ambush of Ulla Winblad"), which Bellman's biographer Lars Lönnroth describes as relatively vague, compared for instance to that of epistle 31, which gives exact co-ordinates in time and space.Шаблон:Sfn The story is at least loosely based on a real event, although the real Ulla Winblad, Maria Kristina Kiellström, was neither a prostitute nor a barmaid, and never prosecuted for wearing unauthorised finery in the form of silk dresses.Шаблон:Sfn

The first stanza in verse and prose
Carl Michael Bellman, 1790Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Prose translation Paul Britten Austin's verse, 1977Шаблон:Sfn
<poem>I går såg jag ditt barn, min Fröja, 
  I Yxsmedsgränd,

Klädd i en svart garnerad tröja, 

  Så snörd och spänd;

En kullrig vidd af många stubbar, 

  Bjäfs och granlåt och flärd.

Men i dess fjät såg jag två gubbar 

  Med långa svärd.</poem>
<poem>Yesterday I saw thy child, my Freya, 
  On Yxsmeds Alley,

Dressed in a black trimmed top, 

  So laced and tight;

A hilly place with many stumps, 

  Finery and show and frivolity.

But behind her I saw two men 

  With long swords.</poem>
<poem>Yestre'en thy child I saw, my goddess 
  In Yxsmed Street,

Clad in a black embroider'd bodice, 

  So trim and neat.

Petticoats flounced their frills and laces, 

  All in spite of the laws;

Aye, and two wights went in her traces 

  With long drawn swords.</poem>

Reception

Bellman's biographer, Paul Britten Austin, describes the Epistle as rococo, along with No. 25: Blåsen nu alla (All blow now). In it, Ulla Winblad, "a luxuriant Venus, incarnation of love and beauty" is almost caught by the bailiffs in Yxsmedsgränd, a narrow street in Stockholm's Gamla stan, where Bellman himself lived from 1770 to 1774.Шаблон:Sfn Carina Burman, in her biography of Bellman, wonders whether Bellman found it slightly amusing to move into the street where the bailiffs had pursued Ulla sixteen years earlier.Шаблон:Sfn The epistle describes how she just manages to escape. Bellman simultaneously uses classical and contemporary imagery. He calls Ulla a nymph; she has been given a "myrtle" (crown of leaves) by Freya, the Nordic goddess of love; the Bonde Palace (visible from the corner of Yxsmedsgränd) is called the temple of Themis, classical goddess of justice; and Freya is to be worshipped in Paphos' land, equating her with Venus/Aphrodite. Paphos in Cyprus was where, in the myth, Aphrodite rose naked from the foaming sea, and her temple is nearby. But, non-mythologically, Ulla wears "a black embroider'd bodice" and petticoats with "frills and laces", and she loses her watch in the struggle. Britten Austin translates the entire Epistle.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Burman notes that the cheerful last stanza of the Epistle was one of the Bellman songs used in 19th century student celebrations.Шаблон:Sfn Epistle 28 has been recorded by Cornelis Vreeswijk, a noted Bellman interpreter, on his 1971 studio album Spring mot Ulla, spring! Cornelis sjunger Bellman, among others.Шаблон:Sfn

References

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