Musevisa

Når nettene blir lange og kulda setter innda sier vesle musemor til ungeflokken sin:«Hvis ingen går i fella, men passer seg for denskal allesammen snart få feire jul igjen!» "Musevisa" ("The Mouse Song") is a Norwegian Christmas song by singer-songwriter Alf Prøysen from 1946.

[1] In December 2008 the alleged rediscovery of a missing verse from the song attracted the attention of the Norwegian media.

In the late autumn of 1946, Prøysen (1914–1970), who had just left his job as a farm hand, received a commission from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) to write a Christmas song for children.

Prøysen said he was worried about the happy and sympathetic tone of the song, since the subject was mice, considered a pest.

In Lønn-Arnesen's version, it was children's program host "Onkel" Lauritz Johnson who had objected to the original verse, and asked Prøysen to write a new one.

Ove Røsbak, who had written a biography on Prøysen, had interviewed Høyland and others, and debunked Lønn-Arnesen's story as false.

[7] Røsbak appreciated Kalleberg's hoax, though he commented that the episode did raise some issues about source criticism in the Norwegian publishing business.

Alf Prøysen c. 1949. It was assumed that the poet, had he been alive, would have appreciated the hoax.
Ivar Kalleberg