{"id":933,"date":"2013-05-25T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=933"},"modified":"2013-05-25T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T19:14:08","slug":"tears-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2013\/05\/25\/tears-of-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears of Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yes!<\/strong> For a week now, Danish fans of <strong>melodi grand prix <\/strong>[meloDEE gramPREE] have been in ecstasy. <strong>L\u00f8rdag den 18. maj <\/strong>in Malm\u00f6, Sweden, Emmelie de Forest won the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, as it is better known internationally. The girl from Randers in <strong>Jylland<\/strong> won the <strong>hjerter<\/strong> [YERter] (hearts) of <strong>fjernsynsseere<\/strong> (tv-watchers) all across <strong>Europa<\/strong> [eoowROHpaa], who voted Emmelie and Denmark ahead of the 25 other participating <strong>lande<\/strong> (countries). With <strong>bare t\u00e6er<\/strong> (bare feet, literally \u201dbare toes\u201d) and a <strong>kjole<\/strong> [KYOLeh] (woman\u2019s dress, gown) made from organic <strong>bomuld<\/strong> [BOMul] (cotton), Emmelie entered the <strong>scene<\/strong> [SEHneh] (stage) to conquer Europe with her song \u201dOnly Teardrops\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HPosbWNr5zM\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HPosbWNr5zM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a great <strong>sejr<\/strong> [SIE-or] (victory)\u00a0for <strong>dansk musik<\/strong> (Danish music). It is the third time in the history of the <strong>konkurrence <\/strong>[kongkooRANGseh] (contest) that Denmark wins. (The newspaper tells me that the first time was in London in 1963, when Grethe and J\u00f8rgen Ingemann sung \u201dDansevise\u201d [Dance Ballad]. The follow-up was \u201dFly On The Wings Of Love\u201d with the Olsen Brothers in Stockholm, 2000.)<\/p>\n<p>When Emmelie arrived in Copenhagen <strong>i s\u00f8ndags <\/strong>(this Sunday, the most recent Sunday), people went crazy. Thousands of people <strong>fejrede hende <\/strong>(celebrated her) in <strong>Tivoli<\/strong>, Copenhagen\u2019s famous amusement park. She had no choice but to give a second performance of her song!<\/p>\n<p>The sad things for Danish-aficionados is, of course \u2026 that the song\u2019s in English! To make sure you get your weekly fix of the odd-but-beautiful Danish language, here\u2019s the Danish version of \u201dFly On The Wings\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Olsen Brothers - Smuk som stjerneskud 2010 lyrics\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uAT9OxfFXMc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Both texts, of course, are happy little things about <strong>k\u00e6rlighed<\/strong> (love)! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>But funnily enough, the meaning of the verses varies a lot between the two versions. Let\u2019s look at the most famous part:<\/p>\n<p><strong>English:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fly on the wings of love<br \/>\nFly baby fly<br \/>\nReaching the stars above<br \/>\nTouching the sky<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danish:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smuk som et stjerneskud<br \/>\nsom tiden g\u00e5r<br \/>\nsmukkere ser hun ud<br \/>\n\u00e5r efter \u00e5r<\/p>\n<p>I think the Danish text har more <strong>humor <\/strong>[hooMORe]. \ud83d\ude42 It approximately means:<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful as a shooting star<br \/>\nas Time passes<br \/>\nshe looks more and more beautiful<br \/>\neach and every year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes! For a week now, Danish fans of melodi grand prix [meloDEE gramPREE] have been in ecstasy. L\u00f8rdag den 18. maj in Malm\u00f6, Sweden, Emmelie de Forest won the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, as it is better known internationally. 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