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Thread #58426   Message #926901
Posted By: GUEST,celtaddict
05-Apr-03 - 06:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Viking Song / ballad of ship Skagramar
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad of ship Skagramar
I wish I could check the spelling. My memory is sometimes spotty, but I am quite sure of the title; I have a vivid mental picture of the page I saw it on, printed in teal and white, with a sketch of the ship with the sails in tatters and the threatening sea. I know the melody, though I couldn't begin to put it online. I was ten or eleven years old at the time so it is mentally filed with those indelible ones learned in childhood. It was in the "Folk Songs from Around the World" type section of a schoolroom songbook. It only had about four verses, though the location of the song suggests to me that it might have been a shorter form of a longer ballad. It certainly sounds like a relative of Gundremar, above, but the melody must be different because those words would not fit.