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Draumkvedet (The Dream Poem) is a Norwegian visionary poem probably dated from the late medieval age. It is one of the best known medieval ballads in Norway. The first written versions are from Lårdal and Kviteseid in Telemark in the 1840s.The protagonist Olav Åsteson falls asleep on Christmas Eve and sleeps until the twelfth day of Christmas. Then he wakes and rides to church to recount his dreams to the congregation about his journey through the afterlife.