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The oldest preserved Swedish broadside ballad, printed in 1583. A broadside (also known as a broadsheet) is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations. They were one of the most common forms of printed material between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries ...
[1] The original copy of the ballad has, over the years, sustained surface damage and uneven inking, but is nevertheless available for view at the Pepys Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Online facsimiles of the ballad, as well as audio recordings sung to the original tune, are available online.
Lifvens Vänner Swedish band recorded this song for their album "Lifvs Levenes" 1997 Oysterband for their 'Alive and Acoustic' recording 1998 Patrick Clifford, on Chance of a Start: 2012 Ronnie Drew, on his self-titled solo album: 1975 Ryan Boldt on his album Broadside Ballads [9] 2014 The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem on Ain't It Grand Boys
An 18th-century broadside ballad: The tragical ballad: or, the lady who fell in love with her serving-man. Street literature is any of several different types of publication sold on the streets, at fairs and other public gatherings, by travelling hawkers, pedlars or chapmen, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
The Types of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballad: A Descriptive Catalogue (TSB) is the designation for a cataloguing system for Scandinavian ballads.. It is also the title of the underlying reference book: The Types of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballad: A Descriptive Catalogue, edited by Bengt R. Jonsson, Svale Solheim and Eva Danielson, in collaboration with Mortan Nolsøe and W. Edson Richmond ...
Sings For Broadside, alternatively known as Broadside Ballads, Vol. 10, was a 1976 compilation of songs that Phil Ochs had recorded for Broadside Magazine as demonstration recordings or at benefit shows for them. Initially, Ochs had hoped for the magazine to release one single concert, but when the material he presented to them came up far too ...
The ballad was one of the inspirations for the 1828 play Elves' Hill by Johan Ludvig Heiberg. Other works inspired by "Elveskud" include Henrik Ibsen 's 1856 play Olaf Liljekrans ; Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir 's 1995 novel Mávahlátur ; [ 13 ] : 288–289 Böðvar Guðmundsson's 2012 novel Töfrahöllin ; [ 13 ] : 212, 251, 289 and Steeleye ...
The Swedish fiddle and nyckelharpa are among the most common Swedish folk instruments. The instrumental genre is the biggest one in Sweden. In the 1960s, Swedish youth sparked a roots revival in Swedish folk culture. Many joined Spelmanslag (folk musicians' clubs) and performed on mainstream radio and TV.