Stolt Herr Alf

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title: Stolt Herr Alf
text: "Stolt Herr Alf" or "Álvur kongur" is a medieval Scandinavian ballad with Swedish and Faroese variants, based on the same legendary material as the Icelandic legendary saga Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka, from pre-Christian times. There are two different manuscripts of this ballad in the National Library of Sweden, and some dialectal words indicate that the ballad was current in south-western Sweden before its documentation. The Norse god Odin is appealed to with an epithet which has aroused scholarly
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description: Medieval Scandinavian ballad
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