Akka bakka bonka rakka

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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

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  4. Nergaard, Sigurd (1923). Eventyr, barnevers, spurningar og ordspraak. Folkeminne frå Østerdalen III. Kristiania: Kristiania Norsk Folkeminnelag. p. 89.
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  6. Myrvang, Finn (1964). Huh-tetta. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. p. 125.
  7. Ro, ro til Regleland. Stabekk: Bokklubbens barn. 1979. p. 38.