Write On: A LITTLE BIRD IN THE AIR - Artwork by Kelley Omdahl

Artwork by: Kailey Omdahl

Roseau Community School

Art Teacher and Supervisor:

Mary Vatnsdal

A little bird in the air

Is singing of Thyri the fair,

The sister of Svend the Dane;

And the song of the garrulous bird

In the streets of the town is heard,

And repeated again and again.

Hoist up your sails of silk,

And flee away from each other.

To King Burislaf, it is said,

Was the beautiful Thyri wed,

And a sorrowful bride went she;

And after a week and a day,

She has fled away and away,

From his town by the stormy sea.

Hoist up your sails of silk,

And flee away from each other.

They say, that throug...