Norwegian burdens Harpans kraft
the interior refrain , burden repeated in second , last lines of each quatrain stanza, common formula found in other ballads. precisely match refrains performed høye strand (1891-1972), recorded rolf myklebust (no). strand had learned ballad-singing tradition of singers once performed jørgen moe , sophus bugge. here de rone or rune construed spell , or wiles . earlier transcribers heard these words dragonerne (meaning dragoon or firearm-bearing type of soldier ), , contention has been made may have been transmitted form, nonsensical appears be. still, exact refrains including use of rune attested elsewhere in earlier documents, e.g. bugge s ms. of 1867 , others.
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