High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Heer Halewijn (also known as Van Here Halewijn and in English The Song of Lord Halewijn) is a Dutch-Flemish folk tale which survives in folk ballad. Although the first printed version of the song only appears in an anthology published in 1848, the ballad itself dates back to the 13th century and is one of the oldest Dutch folk songs with ancient subject matter to be recorded. The story of lord Halewijn itself is even older and contains elements going back to Carolingian culture. Many of its mythemes even range back to Germanic pre-Christian legends.