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<\/a>A dad smiling in early spring, while enjoying an utepils<\/strong> in v\u00e5rsola<\/strong> [the spring sun]. (Thanks to Johan Simon Seland at Flickr: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/16875306@N03\/4407698861\/in\/photolist-7HuBiX-e5Cpta \u2013 licence at: https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/)<\/em><\/p><\/div>I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s \u00e5rstida<\/b> (the season) or just me getting nostalgisk<\/b>\u2026 Anyway, i dag fikk jeg ei l\u00e5t p\u00e5 hjernen <\/b>(today a song got on my mind): \u201dJenter\u201d<\/b> (\u201dGirls\u201d) by Di Derre (\u201dThose \u00a0There\u201d). It\u2019s some years old, but already a modern classic in Norway. Anyone who\u2019s spent a winter in Norway knows that v\u00e5ren<\/b> (Spring) works miracles and makes hjerter<\/b> (hearts) beat \u2013 no matter if you\u2019re a gutt<\/b> (boy) or jente<\/b>.\u00a0The first verses run like this:<\/span><\/p>\n Jeg traff henne p\u00e5 St. Hanshaugen sommer’n 89<\/b><\/p>\n I met her at St. Hanshaugen in Oslo during summer 1989<\/p>\n Hun gr\u00e5t n\u00e5r hun var full og sang n\u00e5r hun var blid<\/b><\/p>\n She cried when she was drunk and sang when she was kind<\/p>\n Jeg elsket henne h\u00f8yt, hun elsket meg villt<\/b><\/p>\n I loved her highly, she loved me wildly<\/p>\n H\u00f8sten kom, d\u00f8ra smalt og etterp\u00e5 ble det stillt<\/b><\/p>\n Autumn came, the door slammed and afterwards it got silent<\/p>\n <\/p>\n S\u00e5 jeg traff ei lita jente en regnfull v\u00e5r<\/b><\/p>\n Then I met a little girl in a rainy spring<\/p>\n Med bl\u00f8te konsonanter og regnv\u00e5tt h\u00e5r<\/b><\/p>\n With soft consonants and hair wet with rain<\/p>\n Hun lovet meg troskap, jeg lovet henne alt<\/b><\/p>\n She promised to be faihtful, I promised her everything<\/p>\n Vinter’n kom, troskap gikk og etterp\u00e5 ble det kaldt<\/b><\/p>\n Winter came, faithfulness went and afterwards it got cold<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jenter som kommer og jenter som g\u00e5r<\/b><\/p>\n Girls coming and girls leaving<\/p>\n Jenter som glipper, jenter du aldri f\u00e5r<\/b><\/p>\n Girls vanishing\/letting go, girls you never get<\/p>\n Jenter som smiler en tidlig v\u00e5r<\/b><\/p>\n Girls smiling in early spring<\/p>\n Jenter og en litt sliten matador<\/b><\/p>\n Girls and a somewhat tired matador<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hey, hey!<\/b><\/p>\n Hey, hey!<\/b><\/p>\n Hey, hey, hey<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The \u201dbl\u00f8te konsonanter<\/b>\u201d thing indicates that the girl says things like \u201dbag<\/b>\u201d instead of bak<\/b> (back, behind),\u00a0 and \u201db\u00e5d<\/b>\u201d instead of b\u00e5t<\/b> (boat). So, if you know your Norwegian dialects, you can figure out she must be from Kristiansand or Stavanger or anywhere along the coast between those two cities! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n