This is the sixth in a series of blogs about the songs on our new CD “The Wandering Ballad”. King Vallemo is a ballad telling the same story as Earl Brand. Whereas in Earl Brand the daughter of the king of England runs away with an earl, in the Scandinavian variant a girl runs away with a generalized “king”, King Vallemo. The Scandinavian version has a lot in common with the Punjabi variant which is thought to have been composed by the poet/balladeer Peelu in the first half o