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"Móðir mín í kví kví (My Mother In The Sheep Pen) is an old Icelandic folk song. The lyrics are based on Icelandic folklore about a woman who had a baby which she couldn't afford to have and left it outside to die, wrapped in a rag. The infant then becomes what we Icelandic call "Útburður" - the ghost of a child who has been left out to die. Some time later the woman wants to go to a dance but has no pretty clothes to wear. She is in the sheep pen attending to the sheep when she hears this whispering outside:

My mother in the sheep pen
don't you worry because
I'll lend you my rag
my rag to dance in

In Icelandic:

móðir mín í kví kví
kviddu ekki því því
ég skal ljá þér duluna mína
duluna mína að dansa í

(This English translation is a verbatim translation of the Icelandic lyrics).

It's a rather ominous lyric and this song is sometimes sung for Icelandic babies as a lullaby... a little odd custom perhaps. I remember my mother singing this to me. This is one of my favourite Icelandic folk songs, and when I created the music for "I Remember You", which is about a lost child that haunts people, I suggested to director Óskar Thór Axelsson that I should make an Icelandic choir version of it and use it as a theme / credit song. He loved the idea" (Frank Hall).

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from I Remember You (Dir. Óskar Th​ó​r Axelsson) O​.​S​.​T. (CSR287CD), released December 4, 2020

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