'Long Lankin' - Steeleye Span
- 7 years ago
This is the video I have made as a tribute to the folk song "Long Lankin" as sung by Steeleye Span (recorded in 1975).
I have wanted to make a video to this music for a few years.
I know that the origins of the titular 'Lankin' are supposed to be real and human, but I have always thought of him as a supernatural character and that this song was a warning that he is ever-present and will kill the offspring of whoever lives in the Manor House on his cursed land.
I have tried to get across his immortal nature by showing a passage of time from the Medieval to Victorian age and the transition from the old manor house to the modern Victorian country house that later replaces it on the same plot of land close to the moors where Lankin stalks his prey.
I have wanted to make a video to this music for a few years.
I know that the origins of the titular 'Lankin' are supposed to be real and human, but I have always thought of him as a supernatural character and that this song was a warning that he is ever-present and will kill the offspring of whoever lives in the Manor House on his cursed land.
I have tried to get across his immortal nature by showing a passage of time from the Medieval to Victorian age and the transition from the old manor house to the modern Victorian country house that later replaces it on the same plot of land close to the moors where Lankin stalks his prey.