Vilhelm Krag

{{Short description|Norwegian poet, writer, journalist and cultural personality}} {{about||others with the same name or surname |Krag (surname)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} thumb|Portrait of Vilhelm Krag '''Vilhelm Krag''' (24 December 1871 – 10 July 1933) was a Norwegian poet, writer, journalist and cultural personality. Known for coining the term Sørlandet to describe a region of Norway, he was the son of Peter Rasmus Krag and younger brother of the novelist Thomas Krag.<ref>''Norwegian writers 1500 to 1900'' (Dictionary of literary biography v. 354) by Lanae H. Isaacson, (Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2010) pp. 175-187. </ref>

His first volume of poetry, which came out in 1891, included many of his best-known poems: "Fandango",<ref>[https://ndla.no/nb/node/126149?fag=27 ''Fandango:'' streaming audio] ''ndla.no''. Retrieved: 9 September 2014.</ref> "Der skreg en fugl" (A bird cried), "Liden Kirsten" (Little Kirsten),<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7SOs8qGbJU ''Liden Kirsten:'' streaming audio] ''youtube.com''. Retrieved: 9 September 2014.</ref> "Majnat" (May night), "Mens jeg venter" (While I'm waiting), "Moderen synger" (The mother sings) and "Og jeg vil ha mig en hjertenskjær" (And I will have me a sweetheart).<ref>[http://dikt.org/Vilhelm_Krag#Digte ''Digte'', by Vilhelm Krag, (Bergen: John Griegs Forlag, 1891).]</ref>

Edvard Grieg set Krag's lyrics to music in his Opus 60, published in 1894.<ref>''Digte af Vilhelm Krag: for en mellemstemme med piano: op. 60'' by Edvard Grieg, (Copenhagen: Hansen, 1894).</ref> In the early 20th century works by Krag were recorded in America by Florence Bodinoff, George Hamlin, Nathalie Hansen,<ref>[http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700004296/B-19222-Liden_Kirsten ''Liden Kirsten''] ''ucsb.edu''. Retrieved: 11 September 2014.</ref> Eleonora Olson,<ref>[https://archive.org/download/EleonoraAndEthelOlson/25OHerre.mp3 ''O, Herre:'' streaming audio] ''archive.org''. Retrieved: 9 September 2014.</ref> Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Aalrud Tillisch,<ref>[https://archives.gac.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/ScanAm/id/1151/rec/1 ''Der skreg en fugl:'' streaming audio] ''gac.edu''. Retrieved: 9 September 2014.</ref> and Carsten Woll.<ref>[http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/41470/Krag_Vilhelm_author Vilhelm Krag (author)] ''ucsb.edu''. Retrieved: 9 September 2014.</ref>

{{S-start}} {{S-culture}} {{Succession box |before=Bjørn Bjørnson |title=Director of the National Theatre |years=1908–1911 |after=Halfdan Christensen}} {{S-end}}

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==External links== {{Commons category|Vilhelm Krag}} {{Listen|filename=Grieg - Krag - Schumann-Heink - Im Kahne (In the Boat) (1913).ogg|title="Mens jeg venter" (''On the Water'')|description= Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1913)}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Vilhelm Krag}} *[http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_author_texts.html?AuthorId=1486 Vilhelm Krag texts set to music] at [http://www.lieder.net/ the LiederNet Archive] *[https://archive.org/details/NorwegianLyricist Vilhelm Krag recordings and translations] *[https://archive.org/search.php?query=Vilhelm%20Krag Vilhelm Krag at the Internet Archive] *[http://johnirons.blogspot.com/2012/06/poet-no-228-norwegian-writer-vilhelm.html English translation of ''Fandango''] '''Articles in Norwegian''' *[http://snl.no/Vilhelm_Krag Vilhelm Krag] at the Great Norwegian encyclopedia *[http://nbl.snl.no/Vilhelm_Krag Vilhelm Krag] at the Norwegian biographical encyclopedia '''Poetry Collections''' *[http://no.wikisource.org/wiki/Digte_(Krag) ''Digte'' (1891)] *[http://dikt.org/Kategori:Sange_fra_Syden ''Sange fra Syden'' (1893)] *[http://dikt.org/Kategori:Nye_Digte_(Vilhelm_Krag) ''Nye Digte'' (1897)] *[http://no.wikisource.org/wiki/Vestlandsviser ''Vestlandsviser'' (1898)] '''Vilhelm Krag at the National Jukebox''' *[https://www.loc.gov/jukebox/search/results?count=20&page=1&q=text%3AVilhelm+Krag&sort=relevance&view=list ''Im Kahne'' (Mens jeg venter) and ''The mother sings'' (Moderen synger)] *[https://www.loc.gov/jukebox/recordings/detail/id/2568 ''Og jeg vil ha mig en hjertenskjær''] '''Vilhelm Krag at the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project''' *[http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016%20&query=Majnat&num=1&start=1&sortBy=&sortOrder=id ''Majnat''] '''Art song''' *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa4N5P_ExQ4 ''Der skreg en fugl:''] video *[https://archive.org/download/VilhelmKrag/05ALonelyBirdCriedOut.jpg ''Der skreg en fugl:''] sheet music

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