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2 6 SWEDISH SONG GAMES
FOLKVISE-DANSEN OR VIKING SONGS
The Viking Songs were known from very early times down to the
sixteenth century, when they practically disappeared from Europe.
They were danced without the accompaniment of musical instruments
(which in those days were rare), but with one person as leader in both
song and dance. They dealt, as a rule, with the traditions and
happenings of the time, inspiring courage and loyalty, but occasionally
they seem more akin to the old English nursery and nonsense rhymes.
The leader suggested the action of each song, and young and old
joined in the dancing. In 1904 Mrs. Hulda Garborg brought these
songs to Sweden from the Faroe Islands, where they are still danced.
Three of them are given in the following pages.
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