Vilhelm Krag

Vilhelm Krag (24 December 1871 – 10 July 1933) was a

Norwegian poet, author, journalist and cultural personality. Known
for coining the term Sørlandet to describe a region of Norway, he
was the son of Peter Rasmus Krag and younger brother of the
novelist Thomas Krag.[1]

His first volume of poetry, which came out in 1891, included many
of his best-known poems: "Fandango",[2] "Der skreg en fugl" (A
bird cried), "Liden Kirsten" (Little Kirsten),[3] "Majnat" (May
night), "Mens jeg venter" (While I'm waiting), "Moderen synger"
(The mother sings) and "Og jeg vil ha mig en hjertenskjær" (And I
will have me a sweetheart).[4]

Edvard Grieg set Krag's lyrics to music in his Opus 60, published in
1894.[5] In the early 20th century works by Krag were recorded in
America by Florence Bodinoff, George Hamlin, Nathalie Hansen,[6]
Portrait of Vilhelm Krag
Eleonora Olson,[7] Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Aalrud Tillisch,[8]
and Carsten Woll.[9]

Cultural offices
Preceded by Director of the National Theatre Succeeded by
Bjørn Bjørnson 1908–1911 Halfdan Christensen

References
1. Norwegian writers 1500 to 1900 (Dictionary of literary biography v. 354) by Lanae H. Isaacson,
(Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2010) pp. 175-187.
2. Fandango: streaming audio (https://ndla.no/nb/node/126149?fag=27) ndla.no. Retrieved: 9
September 2014.
3. Liden Kirsten: streaming audio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7SOs8qGbJU)
youtube.com. Retrieved: 9 September 2014.
4. Digte, by Vilhelm Krag, (Bergen: John Griegs Forlag, 1891). (http://dikt.org/Vilhelm_Krag#Digt
e)
5. Digte af Vilhelm Krag: for en mellemstemme med piano: op. 60 by Edvard Grieg,
(Copenhagen: Hansen, 1894).
6. Liden Kirsten (http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700004296/B-19222-Liden_Ki
rsten) ucsb.edu. Retrieved: 11 September 2014.
7. O, Herre: streaming audio (https://archive.org/download/EleonoraAndEthelOlson/25OHerre.mp
3) archive.org. Retrieved: 9 September 2014.
8. Der skreg en fugl: streaming audio (https://archives.gac.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/S
canAm/id/1151/rec/1) gac.edu. Retrieved: 9 September 2014.
9. Vilhelm Krag (author) (http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/41470/Krag_Vilhelm_a
uthor) ucsb.edu. Retrieved: 9 September 2014.
External links
Works by or about Vilhelm Krag (https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%
22Krag%2C%20Vilhelm%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Vilhelm%20Krag%22%20OR%20cre
ator%3A%22Krag%2C%20Vilhelm%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Vilhelm%20Krag%22%20
OR%20creator%3A%22Krag%2C%20V%2E%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Vilhelm%20Krag%2
2%20OR%20description%3A%22Krag%2C%20Vilhelm%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Vi
lhelm%20Krag%22%29%20OR%20%28%221871-1933%22%20AND%20Krag%29%29%20A
ND%20%28-mediatype:software%29) at Internet Archive
Vilhelm Krag texts set to music (http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_author_texts.html?AuthorId=14
86) at the LiederNet Archive (http://www.lieder.net/)
Vilhelm Krag recordings and translations (https://archive.org/details/NorwegianLyricist)
Vilhelm Krag at the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/search.php?query=Vilhelm%20Krag)
English translation of Fandango (http://johnirons.blogspot.com/2012/06/poet-no-228-norwegia
n-writer-vilhelm.html)

Articles in Norwegian

Vilhelm Krag (http://snl.no/Vilhelm_Krag) at the Great Norwegian encyclopedia

Vilhelm Krag (http://nbl.snl.no/Vilhelm_Krag) at the Norwegian biographical encyclopedia

Poetry Collections

Digte (1891) (https://no.wikisource.org/wiki/Digte_(Krag))

Sange fra Syden (1893) (http://dikt.org/Kategori:Sange_fra_Syden)
Nye Digte (1897) (http://dikt.org/Kategori:Nye_Digte_(Vilhelm_Krag))
Vestlandsviser (1898) (https://no.wikisource.org/wiki/Vestlandsviser)

Vilhelm Krag at the National Jukebox

Im Kahne (Mens jeg venter) and The mother sings (Moderen synger) (https://www.loc.gov/juke
box/search/results?count=20&page=1&q=text%3AVilhelm+Krag&sort=relevance&view=list)
Og jeg vil ha mig en hjertenskjær (https://www.loc.gov/jukebox/recordings/detail/id/2568)

Vilhelm Krag at the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project

Majnat (http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016%20&query=
Majnat&num=1&start=1&sortBy=&sortOrder=id)

Art song

Der skreg en fugl: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa4N5P_ExQ4) video

Der skreg en fugl: (https://archive.org/download/VilhelmKrag/05ALonelyBirdCriedOut.jpg)
sheet music

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