Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu

Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu






 Augað mitt og augað þitt,

ó, þá fögru steina,
mitt er þitt og þitt er mitt,
þú veizt, hvað eg meina.

Langt er síðan sá eg hann,
sannlega fríður var hann,
allt, sem prýða mátti einn mann,
mest af lýðum bar hann.

Þig eg trega manna mest
mædd af tára flóði,
ó, að við hefðum aldrei sést,
elsku vinurinn góði.

Engan leit eg eins og þann
álma hreyti bjarta.
Einn guð veit eg elskaði hann
af öllum reit míns hjarta.

Þó að kali heitur hver,
hylji dali og jökul ber,
steinar tali og allt, hvað er,
aldrei skal eg gleyma þér.

Augað snart er tárum tært,
tryggð í partast mola,
mitt er hjartað sárum sært,
svik er hart að þola.

Beztan veit eg blóma þinn,
blíðu innst í reitum.
Far vel Eyjafjörður minn,
fegri öllum sveitum.

Man eg okkar fyrri fund,
forn þó ástin réni.
Nú er eins og hundur hund
hitti á tófugreni.


English translation:

My eye and your eye,
oh, those beautiful stones,
mine is yours and yours is mine,
you know what I mean.

Long it's been since I saw him,
truly beautiful he was,
all that could adorn one man,
he excelled most among men.

For you I grieve most of all men,
worn by a flood of tears,
oh, that we had never met,
my dear good friend.

I never saw another like that
shining man.
God alone knows I loved him
with every inch of my heart.

Though hot geysers should freeze,
valleys should cover with glaciers bare,
stones should speak and all that is,
never will I forget you.

The eye is quickly clear of tears,
loyalty breaks to pieces,
my heart is wounded,
betrayal is hard to endure.

Best I know your blossom,
the beauty deep in your fields
Farewell, my Eyjafjörður,
the fairest of lands.

I recall our first meeting,
though ancient love recedes.
Now it's like two dogs should
meet at a fox's den. 



This is a flok  Icelandic poem that was written by Rósa Guðmundsdóttir 

The song depicts a story about a couple who loved each other but due to social discrimination between rich and poor and unacceptance from the society the male who was a clerk got married to a wealthy woman and forgot everything about his past whereas the female was left behind in the social discriminations. Therefore she wished that she would have never met him in his past.

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