Elle from Amame by Mari Boine & Bugge Wesseltoft

Sámi lyrics:

De rahpasii giđđaeatnu fas
de dulvvi miel luoittašeimme
jiekŋaidja fertii viimmat vuollánit

De girdilin biellocizážiin
de joradin guovssahasain
vuoibmás vuoiŋŋahagas šogadeimme ovttas
mu bieggabártnážan

De rahtase jienaheamit fas
de golggiihii sátnerávdnji
gálbmon gáttiin go mii viimmat gávnnadeimmet
mu bieggabártnážan

Go váccašat ealloravddas de
go guođohat suhkesoivviid
almmiravda ealáska ja sugada
mu bieggabártnážan


English lyrics:

So the spring river is open again
We let ourselves enter its flow
Long nights of ice finally over
My dearest son of the wind

Surely I fly with the bluethroat
Surely I dance the Aurora
A powerful breath we exhale as one
My dearest son of the wind

Like the ice our silence breaks open
Words flow over the frozen ground
When at last we gather by the shore
My dearest son of the wind

As you walk with the reindeer
Among their tall, branching antlers
The entire sky is moving, alive
My dearest son of the wind

• Devotional
• Norway
• World
• folk
• indigenous
• sami
• Norway