Vestland Vestland [English translation]

Oh Vestland*, Vestland, when I see you like this

With beautiful mountains and fiords and narrow coves,

It rises up in all its beauty, great and wild

And meets me once again so tender and soft.

And happiness flows trough me quiet and grand

with glisten from mountainsides filled with birch and blue fiords

And in myself I feel the deeps of

the quiet forrest and the big ocean.

One sunlit night I row in my light boat

watching the mountains and the sky swimming on the calm fiord

and the deep and green valley

that gleams of leaves and flowers from the mountainsides and the meadows.

Look at the shadows that splitt the steep mountains

when the day moved towards night.

It sweaps around the peaks and in the narrow valleys

a weil of dreams in the cool summernight.

*Vestland (/Vestlandet) is the western part of Norway, and is divided into four countys.