tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117272814962130099.post8840822817747399404..comments2024-03-11T17:41:39.504+01:00Comments on Exploring the Victorian World: Blood, Tears and Betrayal: The Shilling Sheet GenreJBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17961985072401149284noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117272814962130099.post-6766658849613762092013-03-13T11:57:44.557+01:002013-03-13T11:57:44.557+01:00Lasarettvisan was a huge favourite with the kids w...Lasarettvisan was a huge favourite with the kids when I grew up. It's that whole thing about how she waits patiently without complaining and then dies and *never gets to see her parents again*. I think it was that last thing that really got to us.<br /><br />I loved sad things altogether - Astrid Lindgren's Sunnanäng is definitely written in the same vein as these songs (I think she had a soft spot for skillingtryck), and I loved that (the girl who gives her soul to the linden so it can play for the paupers and the brave Squire Nils who gives his life on the scaffold for his king)... I always played miserable thing too. My older sister caught me when I was about 4, playing with my dolls and she heard me whisper "He knew that the horse would die the next day, but there was nothing he could do" and then I sighed contentedly. Morbid little thing, I was! :)JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961985072401149284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117272814962130099.post-85976404363299986912013-03-13T11:01:35.417+01:002013-03-13T11:01:35.417+01:00I used to love it when my father sang Lejonbruden ...I used to love it when my father sang Lejonbruden and Elvira MAdigan for me. Then we had Maritza Horn's Jämmer och elände too. I used to babysit a cousing and sing those songs for her as well- her favourite was Efter balen where the young mother goes to a ball, leaving her husband to take care of their sick child. Sh egets properly punished, of course, the child dies.Isishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09380497568603304818noreply@blogger.com