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V​ä​llistevisan

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The Välliste Song

On the 15th of July 1878 Agnes Danielsdotter went with her sixyear-
old daughter Brita Olsson to the shieling at Nyvallen, just south
of Välliste mountain in the parish of Undersåker. The girl went off to
collect birch bark, wandering further and further from Nyvallen. The
mountain streams were in spate, so rather than wade across she went
on upstream along the bank and up the mountain. Eventually she got
so tired that she lay down for a rest. Although it was the middle of
July, that night was to be the summer’s coldest. There was even light
snowfall on the mountain. Brita fell asleep, and before morning she
had died of exposure.

There were many people willing to join the search for the girl, but no
one expected her to have left the woodlands for the mountainside,
so in the end they had to give up. Only her father, Olof Jakobsson,
carried on searching. In his sorrow he went on, shouting for his
daughter as he went, “until his feet were like bloody stumps”. It wasn’t
until the following winter, on the 12th of December, that the girl’s
remains were found by two young grouse hunters from Edsåsdalen
who happened to be up on Välliste.

lyrics

Vällistevisan
Text: Katarina Holmgren; och Karin Olsdotter
Melodi: Trad

Med sorgsen röst och stämma
jag nu framföra må,
vad som här haver timat
och här måst försiggå.
I Undersåkers socken
på Vällista fjäll,
där dog en liten flicka
dock lyckelig och säll.

Ledsagad av sin fader
bort till en fäbodvall,
och uti många dagar
hon skötte där sitt kall.
Hon från sin moder reste
och inåt skogen for,
men folket henne sökte
fast allt förgäves var.

Sex år var denna flickan
som nu omtalad är,
av flera hundra männskor
hon efterletad var.
I stora vida skogar
som genomsökta blev,
men stod ej till att finna
förrn vintern inne var.

Där var då tvenne gossar
som voro ut på jakt,
de foro uppåt fjället
att skjuta riporna.
De genast fingo skåda
där lite kläder låg,
som djuren sönderrivit
samt några ben kvarlåg.

Där var en liten telning
så lydig och så glad,
och den som henne kände
till henne kärlek bar.
Hon hade börjat läsa
och uti skolan gå,
men mången blomma vissnar
förrän hon mogna får.

Och käraste föräldrar
ett bud jag sänder er,
Sen eder noga före
ty världen farlig är.
Men jag i himlen väntar
en gång få möta er,
när sista aftonsolen
för eder har gått ner.

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from H​ä​ndelser I Nord, released April 5, 2019

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