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

References

  1. ^ Berulfsen, Bjarne (1969). Ordet går videre: Nye kåserier om ordenes liv. Oslo: Gyldendal. p. 24.
  2. ^ Svensen, Åsfrid (1985). Tekstens mønstre: innføring i litterær analyse. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. p. 63.
  3. ^ Hagemann, Sonja (1970). Barnelitteratur i Norge 1850–1914. Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 269–270.
  4. ^ Nergaard, Sigurd (1923). Eventyr, barnevers, spurningar og ordspraak. Folkeminne frå Østerdalen III. Kristiania: Kristiania Norsk Folkeminnelag. p. 89.
  5. ^ Deinboll, Rikka (1936). Barnerim og barneregler. Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 46.
  6. ^ Myrvang, Finn (1964). Huh-tetta. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. p. 125.
  7. ^ Ro, ro til Regleland. Stabekk: Bokklubbens barn. 1979. p. 38.