This is a freely translated and adapted English version of the folk ballad Heiemo and nøkken. Translated, sang, performed and adapted by Lena Heide-Brennand. Guitar/drum/production: Johnny Williamsen. All rights reserved and copyrighted 2022.

Heiemo walked by the riverside

The day was falling still

When from the dark and silent stream

There rose a creature by his will

Stay, stay far Heiemo and listen to me

For I can teach you songs so deep

No living soul will ever see

That you learned those hymns from me

If you learn my hidden tunes

And play and sing as none before you

You must give me what I ask

And I am asked to be loved by you

He drew the bow across the strings

The water froze as stone

And all the world grew strange and still