Come, children.”

During the summer months you might hear a Norwegian girl, high up on a mountain, calling her cows with such a rhyme. She would, no doubt, call each cow by name, just as the girl does in the old rhyme.

“Come, children all,

That hear my call,

Brynhilda fair,

With nut-brown hair!

Come, little Rose,

Ere day shall close;

And Birchen Bough,

My own dear cow;