{"id":6271,"date":"2013-03-19T23:59:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T23:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2013-03-20T03:16:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T03:16:38","slug":"a-swedish-hymn-tryggare-kan-ingen-vara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/a-swedish-hymn-tryggare-kan-ingen-vara\/","title":{"rendered":"A Swedish Hymn \u2013 Tryggare kan ingen vara"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I wrote a while back about a Swedish nursery rhyme called Rida Rida Ranka<\/a><\/em> that I have encountered while doing field work in Swedish America. It\u2019s a great little nursery rhyme and one that I actually remember my dad reciting to me when I was younger.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just nursery rhymes though that I keep running into. Sometimes there are hymns also. One of the most common that I have come across is Tryggare kan ingen vara<\/em>, which was written by Lina Sandell back in the 1850s. It\u2019s been translated to Children of the Heavenly Father<\/em> in English.<\/p>\n

Of course, starting around 1850, over one million Swedes left their homeland for the United States. They left for plenty of reasons, one being the search for religious freedom due to the ongoing pietist movement in Sweden at the time. This led to Swedish-American churches and denominations being founded in the United States. Today, that legacy lives on in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America as denominations like the Augustana Synod became a part of the ELCA. Katja wrote a bit about the Swedish immigration to the US in her post: The big immigration<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s in many of these Lutheran churches (and even colleges) that you\u2019ll still hear Tryggare kan ingen vara<\/em> sung in Swedish. Below you will find a Swedish-American rendition of the song from YouTube as well as the text lyrics to both the English and Swedish versions.<\/p>\n