Akka bakka bonka rakka
Akka bakka bonka rakka is a Norwegian nursery rhyme of mostly nonsense words used to select or point out a participant in children's games, such as who will be "it" in a game like hide-and-seek (Norwegian: gjemsel) or tag (Norwegian: sisten).[1][2]
It is classified as a counting rhyme in Nora Kobberstad's Norsk Lekebok (Book of Norwegian Games) from 1901.[3]
There are different versions of the rhyme. The following version was recorded in Elverum in the early 1920s by Sigurd Nergaard:[4]
- Akka bakka,
- banka ranka,
- etla metla, sang dang,
- fil i fang, isa, bisa, topp!
In 1936, it was included in a collection of children's rhymes published by Rikka Deinboll:[5]
- Akka bakka bonka rakka
- etla metla sjong dong
- fili fong
- issa bissa topp
Finn Myrvang reproduced it in 1964 in a version from Andøya:[6]
- Akka bakka bonka rakka, issa bissa topp.
- Sjong dong filifong, stékk om stein - stå!
A later version, published by the Children's Book Club (Bokklubbens barn), has the following form:[7]
- Akka bakka
- bonka rakka,
- etla metla
- sjong dong,
- filifjong
- issa bissa topp
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Berulfsen, Bjarne (1969). Ordet går videre: Nye kåserier om ordenes liv. Oslo: Gyldendal. p. 24.
- ^ Svensen, Åsfrid (1985). Tekstens mønstre: innføring i litterær analyse. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. p. 63.
- ^ Hagemann, Sonja (1970). Barnelitteratur i Norge 1850–1914. Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 269–270.
- ^ Nergaard, Sigurd (1923). Eventyr, barnevers, spurningar og ordspraak. Folkeminne frå Østerdalen III. Kristiania: Kristiania Norsk Folkeminnelag. p. 89.
- ^ Deinboll, Rikka (1936). Barnerim og barneregler. Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 46.
- ^ Myrvang, Finn (1964). Huh-tetta. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. p. 125.
- ^ Ro, ro til Regleland. Stabekk: Bokklubbens barn. 1979. p. 38.
