Märk hur vår skugga

"Märk hur vår skugga"
Art song
First page of sheet music for the 1810 edition
EnglishMark how our shadow
WrittenLate 1780s–1790
Textpoem by Carl Michael Bellman
LanguageSwedish
MelodyPerhaps by Bellman himself
Published1790 in Fredman's Epistles
Scoringvoice and cittern

Märk hur vår skugga (Mark how our shadow) is one of the best-known of the 1790 Fredman's Epistles, where it is No. 81. These were written and performed by Carl Michael Bellman, the dominant figure in the Swedish song tradition. Its subject is the funeral of one of Bellman's female acquaintances, Grälmakar Löfberg's wife.

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