@lwxcmla - sorry, I think I didn't answer you question just before. Yes, the tradtition with hitting a wooden barrel is a pre-lent tradtition. In Denmark they called it "Slå katten af tønden" (hit the cat from the barrel), which was a very cruel tradtition in the middle ages, when they put a living cat inside the barrel. We don't do that of course. As you can see in the film there is an iron buoy inside the barrel. The one who manages to release it from the rope is "kattakongur" king of the cats
Are you referring to the dance or the "hitting a barrel" tradition? The dance is a very old tradition, so old that no one knows when it started, ages ago anyway. The other tradition is not as old as the Faroese dance. It dated back to the second world war at least, in the way that is is today, I mean, with the white shirts with the red and blue ribbon across the breast and the way they make the barrel very strong. I only know about this treatment of the barrel in this village Sumba.
Could you write down the lyricvs for the "refrain"? I´ve found the rest of the lyrics, but the refrain I´ve found does not fit at all with what you guys/gals are singing...
the kvaði ballad is abouth tings ther have happends around europe fore hundreds of years and the dance was dansed around europe hundreds of years ago buth now only in faroe islands
@lwxcmla - sorry, I think I didn't answer you question just before. Yes, the tradtition with hitting a wooden barrel is a pre-lent tradtition. In Denmark they called it "Slå katten af tønden" (hit the cat from the barrel), which was a very cruel tradtition in the middle ages, when they put a living cat inside the barrel. We don't do that of course. As you can see in the film there is an iron buoy inside the barrel. The one who manages to release it from the rope is "kattakongur" king of the cats
Are you referring to the dance or the "hitting a barrel" tradition? The dance is a very old tradition, so old that no one knows when it started, ages ago anyway. The other tradition is not as old as the Faroese dance. It dated back to the second world war at least, in the way that is is today, I mean, with the white shirts with the red and blue ribbon across the breast and the way they make the barrel very strong. I only know about this treatment of the barrel in this village Sumba.
Could you write down the lyricvs for the "refrain"? I´ve found the rest of the lyrics, but the refrain I´ve found does not fit at all with what you guys/gals are singing...
Fuglin í fjøruni
hann eitur má
silkibleikt er høvur hans
og kembt hevur hann hár
Fuglin í fjøruni.
What is the Niðurlag for this song, if you wouldn't mind?
fuglurin í fjøruni han eitur má silkið pryður høvur hans
This is a pre-lenten tradition, isn't it? What's its origin?
the kvaði ballad is abouth tings ther have happends around europe fore hundreds of years and the dance was dansed around europe hundreds of years ago buth now only in faroe islands