Carl Nielsen

Æ Lastræ

(Mi Håsbond wa en piinwon Rad)

The Haypole

(This farmer was a callous bloke)

CNW 275
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 195
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 276
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 115

Author: Anton Berntsen

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: [1913].

In 1924–25, Nielsen composed melodies to Anton Berntsen's poems in the Jutland dialect. However, Nielsen must have been engaged with Berntsen's authorship even earlier, since Æ Lastræ was performed in 1913. Though Nielsen did not conceive the four songs as an entity they were, nevertheless, published as a collection in 1941.

Mi Håsbond wa en piinwon Rad

this farmer was a callous bloke