Elveskud
Sign in to save"Elveskud" or "Elverskud" (; Danish for "Elf-shot") is the Danish, and most widely used, name for one of the most popular ballads in Scandinavia.
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Vinony's link graph records 21 inbound references to Elveskud, and connects out to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Henrik Ibsen and International Standard Book Number.
It sits within the topics Danish folk music, Folk ballads and Norwegian folk music.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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"Elveskud" or "Elverskud" (; Danish for "Elf-shot") is the Danish, and most widely used, name for one of the most popular ballads in Scandinavia.
==Origins and distribution== thumb|A sheet from the Swedish songbook (1816) The origins of the ballad are agreed to be considerably earlier than the earliest manuscripts, in the Middle Ages, but there is little consensus beyond this. Many scholars suggest a Breton or French origin but the routes by which it came to and was disseminated within Northern Europe are unknown.
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