Once Upon a Fic author reveals, and a music rec

[regshoe]

Once Upon a Fic author reveals have happened! It's been a good exchange. :D My Twa Corbies gift is by water_bby—thank you!

And here's what I wrote! This fandom was new to me—when I saw a Swedish ballad in the tagset I had to check it out, and I'm very glad I did. It's a great song and I had lots of fun writing for it—plenty of opportunity for nature descriptions and weird mundane world/fairyland contrasts.

Bittida en morgon (2492 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Herr Mannelig (Traditional Ballad)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Herr Mannelig/Bergatroll
Characters: Herr Mannelig, Bergatroll (Herr Mannelig)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, POV Outsider
Summary:

Herr Mannelig makes a different choice.

While I'm here, I'm also going to rec 'Herr Mannelig' itself, specifically this recording by Garmarna, which I listened to many times while writing my story. I love the ominous fairytale-magic mood, and the lead singer's voice is amazing. The lyrics are here on Wikipedia with an English translation.

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Comments

[edwardianspinsteraunt]

Really lovely fic-- thank you for introducing me to such a cool and interesting ballad! :D Is there any more folklore surrounding the bergatrolls that you encountered in your research?

[dr_zook]

Oooooooh, I'll be definitely so checking out your fic later (I'm about to go to the movies right now), but I just wanted to say that I knew that tale from In Extremo's version, which I absolutely loved as a youth. It's almost a different tale if sung by a raspy male singer, isn't it? :D

[regshoe]

Glad you like the fic and the ballad :D I did not do any further research about trolls in general, no—although I did find out that in some versions of this ballad the woman is a mermaid (havsfru) instead!

[regshoe]

Ha, that's a very fun version :D I hope you enjoy the fic, and have a nice time at the movies!

[luzula]

Yay, looking forward to a reread! Perhaps more comments about ballads later, but re: our previous conversation on shipping Swedish books to the UK, do you know about this site? You can search for books in all used book stores in Sweden (antikvariat) and many of them ship abroad.

[regshoe]

Ooh, no, I'd not come across that site—it looks great, thanks very much for the link!

[dr_zook]

What a brilliant fic, thank you so much for posting about it here as well! :3

And thank you! Our local Gay Movie Week screened Vietnamese Song Lang, which was otherworldly as well. :)