As an immediate appendix to the previous post, I couldn’t help but add some clips that show more of the Saint Stephen songs. I should have added that, firstly, the horse connection is seen even more clearly by the fact that the songs are almost always referred to as “Staffan (var en) stalledräng” (‘Stephen (was a) stable boy’), and, secondly, that they’re sung during the Saint Lucy celebrations (“Lucia”) on December 13.
Both of these clips are from the annual Lucia concert in the Stockholm Globe Arena, and give some sense of what a Lucia procession can be like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9cfE4TKgJI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svAEq90s1NE&feature=related
As you can hear, there are significant differences between the arrangements, even though the text is pretty much the same. However, this text is very different from the text in the folk song referred to in the last post.
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