This is the second in a series of blogs about the songs on our new CD “The Wandering Ballad”. At the time my grandmother passed away when I was in my twenties, one of the treasures I inherited from her was a book of ballads from the Swedish speaking part of Finland. I was very excited when I began reading these odd sung stories of strange, supernatural beings and tragic romances. I remembered I had heard about these ballads before. As a child I had spent two summers on an isl