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Venelite og Bergjekongen

from Flickor Alla by Huldrelokkk

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Kerstin: One of the wonderful Norwegian “bergtakningsviser”
(kidnapping into the mountain). A medieval ballad about the
young woman Venelite and the mountain king (Bergjekongen).
He lures her into his mountain home and gives her three magical
glasses of mead to drink. After that, she completely forgets her
Christian faith and succumbs to her fate of becoming the
mountain king’s bride.
I first heard the song on the sublime Agnes Buen Garnaas/
Jan Garbarek recording “Rosensfole”.
There are numerous versions of this story – maybe the most
well-known is the ballad of “Liti Kjersti” which I recorded on my
solo CD “Trollsang” in 2004.
Liv and I had a ball arranging the three different eerie fiddle,
nyckelharpa and guitar voicings in the instrumental bit.

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from Flickor Alla, released August 4, 2023
trad. arr. Kerstin Blodig, Liv Vester Larsen

Kerstin: vocals, guitar, electric bass
Liv: vocals, fiddle
Mia: vocals, nyckelharpa

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Label, Production- and Publishing Company, founded 1987, based in Cologne, Germany. Releases are CDs, Vinyls, DVDs, sheet music and biographies. Mainly concentrating on music from North of latitude 40. - means: roughly the area above the latitude that goes through Paris. ... more

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