A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Another Norwegian folk music link

Another artist on Radio Norway this morning, a band called Over Stok og Steen (over hill and dale), a band from Hedemarken, a rural area north of Oslo and east of Lake Mjøsa. The song was "Nu vil jeg reise langt herfra" (Now will I travel far from here). Lyrics of the first verse in translation:
I now will travel far
Across to America
I hope God'll help me there
Though from you I must depart.
It's a ballad, a sad song.

Definitely worth another look ... or listen.

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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.