This song is sung in the play “Eyvindur og Halla” by Jóhann Sigurjónsson. A young widow can not marry the man she loves because he is an outlaw. She has a child with her land steward and sings this lullabye for her baby when thoughts about her distant lover make her sad. “Sleep, my darling. You will find out soon enough that the ones you love are not always near.”
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