Tonttu [English translation]

It's a frosty night and the North is throwing flaming lights

Folks of the quiet mansion are sleeping a sleep of midnights

Without a sound, the moon is wandering and trees are white of snow

There's snow on the roofs but the Tomte* can't fall asleep

He comes from the barn, stays on a snowdrift on front of the door

Peers as an old habit towards the sky, to moon

Looks to the forrest that woods are a shelder of the wind for the mansion

Thinking hundred of ways to solve his eternal problem

Brushing his beard he wonders, shakes his head and says out loud:

"No, I can't undestand this. This is a real problem."

As a rational little man, he puts away those thoughts

And goes for deed and work, to do his chores in nigt

He walks to the sheeps in the stall, meets them laying down

the hens are already on the perch, rooster taking the highest seat

In the doghouse, the guard wakes up and shakes its tail

The Tomte in gray is indeed familiar to it

Little man sneaks into the house, there is the host family

They really appriciate the Tomte, you could tell

He tiptoes to the children to see those little darlings

Someone else wouldn't care, but to him they are a great wonder

The forrest is quiet under the ice, all living is sleeping

The rapid is foaming alone, humming behind the woods

The Tomte, half sleeping, thinks he's hearing the stream of time

Wonders where it will carry him, where is its source

It's frosty night and the North is throwing flaming lights

Folks of the quiet mansion are sleeping until the morning

Without a sound, the moon is settling and the trees are whitened by snow

There's snow on the roofs but the Tomte can't still fall asleep