Folk och rackare
. . Bendik is killed beside the church. Den femte han var apelgrå, Den rider Staffan själv uppå. Nowadays of course, these old stories are less well known. .
. . Bendik is killed beside the church. Den femte han var apelgrå, Den rider Staffan själv uppå. Nowadays of course, these old stories are less well known. .
Here you can find a Norwegian version by. So it seems that the poem is optimistic. De tjänte väl sin föda. The nations at the two old Swedish universities of Lund and Uppsala are modelled on the nations at the old University of Paris. Staffan red till källarknut, där han var van få ölet ut.
It is quite common that the maiden needs a little more convincing before she initially agrees to go off with the lindworm. And here is a with lyrics in English. The first two of these 1 and 2 use the same omkväde lines, though the melodies are very different. Staffan var en stalledräng, stalledräng, stalledräng. De va de andra lika. Ingen dager synes än, Stjärnorna på himmelen de blänka.
Stjärnorna de tindra sÃ¥ klara. . Staffan stalledräng har även kopplats till Cistenciensermunken vid Staffan, som skrinlades 1510. It can also be traditional for the singers to add comic verses at the end of the song proper. Note the drinking horse and the star. Note that although these last three performances are from the Faeroe Islands, the language is not Faeroese. Dels blir det för långt och dels är dessa inte lika trevliga.
Innan solen månd' uppgå, Vi tackom nu så gärna. No dawn can be seen yet, The stars in the sky twinkle. Ingen dager synes än, stjärnorna på himmelen de blänka. De tjänte väl sin föda. No dawn can be seen yet, The stars in the sky twinkle. Ahlström, 300 Nordiska Folkvisor, Stockholm, 1878, Nr 164 and 292, Lindormen A.
Ingen dager synes än, Stjärnorna på himmelen de blänka. . Gabriel ängeln vart utsänd 8. Afzelius, Svenska Folkvisor Från Forntiden, Stockholm, 1814--1816, Nr 88, Lindormen J. He watered his five horses, All for the bright star.
The verses where Sinclair is speaking to the mermaid are also more typical ballad verses, with a lot of direct speech. Stjärnorna de tindra sÃ¥ klara. He goes out hunting, and kills various creatures: a wolf, fox, hare, and so on. Even in the opening verse of the ballad we are told that things will not turn out well for Bendik. The title of the song comes from one of the omkväde lines. Here you can find some translations of specific variants : ,. Kuvaus Staffan var en stalledräng Stephen was a stable boy is a traditional Swedish Christmas carol based on an English and Nordic legend claiming that the first Christian martyr, St.
The ambush took place where the Scottish soldiers had to pass along a narrow way bordered by steep slopes on one side and a river on the other. The biblical St Stephen, the first Christian martyr, was stoned to death after the death of Jesus, and doesn't belong at Herod's court at all. The opening two verses are reminiscent of the opening two verses of, say, Bendik and Årolilja, where the entire plot is summarised very briefly in a single verse, and then immediately repeated with minor variation. This is a little unusual as the language of ballads is typically straightforward. It tells the story of a historical battle at Kringen in Norway, which took place in 1612. Here they are playing a must-listen interpretation of Lindormen, which is the opening track on the Källan i Slaka record from the Slaka ballad forum.