Huldrelokkk live: De to søstre 

***** look at sorten mulds version it is much easier to hear what they are sing.. the melody isnt quite the same though.

***** Thanks for the translation, I love finding the different ways people have told this story.

Aydan Summerfield Take a look at "The Cruel Sister" by Old blind dogs, or "Twa Sisters" by The Clannad. The base is identical.

I'm a dane and I have a hard time following up what they are singing :P It's so unclear.

It is about a man who has two daughters. The youngest is very beautiful and the oldest very ugly. The elder pushes her sister off a rock (she dies). Two musicians find her body and return home with it. The eldest sister is condemned and burned at the stake. So now the man has no more daughters. There is an extended version of the song. Here, the older sister is jealous that the youngest sister has a suitor. Therefore she kicks her off a cliff into the sea. Two musicians find her body on the beach. She is dead and her long hair is tangled in bones, forming a harp. They take the harp to town to play it. But when it plays it tells who killed the youngest sister. So that night the eldest lies in the bridal bed with her husband (the younger sister's suitor). But the next day she burns at the stake.

***** Mange tak!

Danish

They sing this one in Danish, but mixed with a rather strong Norwegian/Swedish accent, as the trio consist of a Norwegian, a Swede and a Dane.

@@henryrasmussendk yeah the middle one is Nowegian, the right is Swedish and the one the left is Danish.