Sissel Kyrkjebø - Mitt hjerte alltid vanker

Sissel Kyrkjebø performing “Mitt hjerte alltid vanker“ (“My Heart Always Wanders“) at a TV-concert from Røros Church, Norway in 2007. Click on CC for English subtitles. “Mitt hjerte alltid vanker“ (“My Heart Always Wanders“) is an old Scandinavian Christmas song, released as a single with Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø in 1995. It is one of several versions of the originally Danish hymn, which has since been translated and set to different melodies in the different Scandinavian countries. Kyrkjebø sings a Norwegian translation set to a Norwegian variant of a Swedish folk melody, which was first written down in 1816 in Västergötland in Sweden. This is the version is the most popular in Norway and Sweden. It was written by Danish bishop and hymn writer Hans Adolph Brorson and first came out in print in 1732. In Denmark, the most popular version of this song is set to the melody composed by Carl Nielsen, with Thomas Laub’s corresp