Full score. Songs of Solitude and Night is in two movements. The first movement has text from Völuspį from the Old Edda, and is called Prelude. The text is about creation of the earth, the stars, the sun, the moon and thefirst people on earth, Ask and Embla. The second movement is a poem by the faroese author William Heinesen translated into english by the faroese author Gunnar Hoydal and is called Hogboy. The poem begins like this: Hogboy, thespectre with the cheery name, lives in the mound Mae s Hove in the Orkney island of Pomona. Here you can hear him singing bewildered songs in the dark. Playful Pomona girls are dancing in the moonlight around the old grave
