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LULLABIES
They're the first songs we remember from childhood - a link between generations. Click below to hear lullabies from around the world - then add your own.
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11 Ruwa
12 Softhu unga astin min
13 Duermete mi nino
14 Shiri Yakanaka
15 Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean
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Contributor
HAFSA MUHAMMAD
SUE ARNOLD
MARIA ESPERANZA SANCHEZ
AUXILLIA KAMUCHIRA
MARK WARWICKER
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Lullaby: Softhu unga astin min
Language: Icelandic
Country of origin: Iceland
Chosen by: Sue Arnold
 ÌýÌýÌýListen to a clip from Softhu, Album: Songs from the Saga Island (NMCD, Iclenad)
.../continued. Go to part 1 | 2
Over the next few days I allowed the melody to seep into me, letting it play around and around inside my head, checking with the tape we’d made, struggling with the pronunciation, humming the tune, feeling the sense of the words, imagining the child in my arms. My teacher was delighted when I returned for my next lesson. I’d learned it more or less by heart. I’ve been singing and teaching that lullaby ever since. I like to think that lullabies can even offer a chance to find that quiet place in adulthood that we may, for one reason or another, have missed earlier in our lives.
By now my family know that if they travel abroad they’re expected to bring back CDs of traditional music for me. On a recent visit to Iceland my daughter found a CD which has some of the most haunting songs I think I’ve ever heard. One of the recordings is of a lullaby called ‘Softhu unga astin min’. This song is from a play by Johann Sigurjonsson. A young widow wants to marry the man she loves but he is an outlaw. She sings a sad lullaby to her baby:
‘Sleep my darling. You will find out soon enough that the ones you love are not always near’.
back to the first part of this tale
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