The third shawl in the Folk Song KAL is based on a Norwegian folk song called Jeg Lagde Meg Så Silde.
As I lay down late one evening
I did not know to fear anything
Then there came a message from my beloved:
I must go to her.
No one has been loved more than she.
So I went up into the high loft
as I often did
There stood all the young maidens in sorrow
and told me my beloved was dead.
No one has been loved more than she.
So I went out into the green meadow
where I heard the church bells ring.
I knew nothing else, I felt nothing else,
but my heard was breaking into pieces.
No one has been loved more than she.
There is a lovely performance on Youtube by Sissel Kyrkjebo,
The shawl is knit in Krissy from Land O Lace in the colourway Waconia. It comes in 600 yd skeins (600 yds / 50 g), and I used about 420 yds for the shawl. The pattern will be available in the Folk Song KAL on May 15.
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