Acoustic strings and a lone voice singing in German about wanderers and winter skies. Enderal's 2018 Bard Songs collection pulls the in-game tavern performances out of a Skyrim total conversion mod and lets them stand on their own.
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Which they absolutely do. "Der Wegelose Wanderer" (The Pathless Wanderer) shows up in three versions, each one a slightly different arrangement that hits different. "Der Winterhimmel" carries this cold, aching folk quality, and "Die Nacht des Raben" (Night of the Raven) goes darker with its storytelling.
All tracks are in German, giving the whole collection this grounded Old World texture. Feels like actual folk music from a place that doesn't exist. If you sat in every Enderal tavern just to hear the bards finish their songs, now you don't have to pretend that's not what you were doing.