Valravn
Sign in to savethumb|Coat of arms of the [[Ulfeldt family, featuring a heraldic valravn]] A valravn is a supernatural raven in Danish renaissance folklore. It principally appears in the folk ballad "Valravnen" () where it is depicted as a knight, who was transformed into a raven, and whose curse can only be broken by consuming the blood of a boy.
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thumb|Coat of arms of the [[Ulfeldt family, featuring a heraldic valravn]] A valravn is a supernatural raven in Danish renaissance folklore. It principally appears in the folk ballad "Valravnen" () where it is depicted as a knight, who was transformed into a raven, and whose curse can only be broken by consuming the blood of a boy.
==Folk ballad== The ballad "Valravnen" has the type DgF 60/TSB A 17. The earliest version of the ballad is known from Jens Billes Håndskrift (), dated to 1555-1559, though the ballad is thought to have originated in the late Middle Ages. The following is the second-oldest version of the ballad, version B: