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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] [2] [3] Another feature of SMB is that the accompanying melodies have been comprehensively printed alongside the text, [1] unlike ballad collections in some of the other languages. In 2005, a ballad collection was discovered in the library of Växjö that contained ballad types not enumerated in the SMB. [4]
The supernatural element in 15–16 lies in the breaking of the name taboo being the cause of Redebold/Hillebrand's death. This "dead-naming" is omitted in the English ballads. Redebold elopes with his beloved Gullborg. Her father and his men go after them. Redebold prepares to fight them, and asks Gullborg not to mention his name.
"An Invitation to Lubberland" was a broadside ballad first printed in 1685. Many believe [who?] that it inspired the hobo ballad which formed the basis of the song "The Big Rock Candy Mountains" recorded in 1928 by Harry McClintock. Lubberland is the Swedish name for Cockaigne, land of plenty in medieval myth.
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
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 ...
The broadside opens with the account of Sir James the Rose's love for a lady named Matilda, how her family tried to marry her off, and how he killed her brother for spying on them. Child's version merely opens with the news that Sir James the Rose killed a squire and asked his lover to hide him.
Coridon and Parthenia or "Coridon and Parthenia, The Languishing Shepherd made Happy. Or, Faithful Love rewarded" is a broadside ballad, which dates from, by estimation of the English Short Title Catalogue, the last three decades of the seventeenth century.