Blåveispiken
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"Blåveispiken" is a Norwegian
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...

 song with lyrics by Arne Paasche Aasen
Arne Paasche Aasen
Arne Paasche Aasen was a Norwegian politician, journalist and poet, who worked for the labour movement.He was born in Steinkjer as a son of teacher and politician Augusta Aasen, née Paasche and typographer Edolf Aasen . The family soon moved to Kristiania. In 1927 he married Valborg "Vaps" Moe...

, and melody by Kurt Foss
Kurt Foss
Kurt Foss was a Norwegian composer, singer and vaudeville artist.He was born in Bergen, and together with Reidar Bøe Kurt Foss created the hugely popular duo "Radiofantomene" that was active throughout the 1940s, 50s and 60s...

 and Reidar Bøe. Foss and Bøe recorded the song in 1950. The record was a great success, and sold 100,000 items. The song was a popular hit in Norwegian radio in the 1950s.

The lyrics centers around the narrator on one of his regular walks. He meets a little girl, five or six years old, and the girl offers him a bunch of liverwort flowers
Anemone hepatica
Anemone hepatica is a herbaceous perennial growing from a rhizome in the buttercup family , native to woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.- Taxonomy :The taxonomy of the genus Anemone and its species is not fully resolved...

which she just has gathered.
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