#herr mannerlig

[folk-metal-bracket]

Folk Metal Folk Bracket - Round 1 A

Please listen to both before voting. More information under the cut.

Whose take on Herr Mannelig do you prefer?

Haggard (in Italian)

Litvintroll (in Belorussian)

Voting ended onMay 16

Herr Mannerlig/ Bergatrollets Friari - Traditional

Also fun facts time because I adore this song. It's a Swedish song originally, though evidently popular enough to get multiple translations. It was first published in 1877, and probably the only song in the bracket in which I'm actually most familiar with that first published version. As with most traditional songs, there's other variants, though this one from Södermanland is the most known (being the one in that 1877 document). I'll stop my rambling now and leave you with my favourite Swedish language version of it - (probably to little suprise) Garmarna's: