''Trilo'' is a traditional Swedish

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. The song is about longing for someone at sea, traditionally sung by Swedish and Norwegian wives as their husbands returned from sea. ''Trilo'' has been arranged for choir several times. An arrangement by Ale Möller has been included in his album ''Nordan'' (1994) with Lena Willemark, and has been released later for choir

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. An arrangement by

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written in 2017 has been recorded by

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. The piece was included on the album ''Song of the North'' released in March 2018 and has been described as "highly atmospheric music". Ollén's arrangement of Trilo was performed by the ''Oxford Intermezzo'' chamber choir as the opening number with the choir distributed around the audience in a "Songs of the North" concert at

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on 7 September 2019. In 2021, the folk song Trilo was used as the basis of a choral setting by Simon Jackson of Thomas Campion's poem ''Never weather-beaten sail''.

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S:t Jacobs Vokalensemble performance
in Storkyrkan,

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, Sweden, 2017
Prairie Voices performance
in Westminster United Church, Winnipeg, Canada, 2017
The Choir of Peterhouse, Cambridge performance
of Simon Jackson's setting of ''Never weather-beaten sail (Trilo'') in St George's Church, Chesterton, Cambridge, 2022 Swedish folk songs {{song-stub