Demonstration of a reconstructed horse-hair fiddle (Taglharpa) by Einar Selvik in Somerville College

Title

Demonstration of a reconstructed horse-hair fiddle (Taglharpa) by Einar Selvik in Somerville College

Subject

Performance - music

Description

A demonstration of a reconstructed horse-hair fiddle by musician Einar Selvik (of Wardruna) during the Old Norse Poetry in Performance (ONPIP) Conference at Somerville College, Oxford on Friday 24 June 2016. A fiddle-like instrument was discovered at Hedeby, but it was probably not a type common in Scandinavia. The earliest depiction is from a statue from the 1200´s in the oldest part of the cathedral in Trondheim, Norway. This instrument was common in Scandinavia, especially Finland, up until the early 1900s.

More information about the band and project can be found at http://wardruna.com/about/

Creator

Einar Selvik

Source

ONPIP

Publisher

The World-Tree Project

Date

Friday 24 June 2016

Contributor

Tom Birkett

Rights

(c) Einar Selvik

Relation

http://wardruna.com/about/

Format

MP4

Type

Moving Image

Identifier

http://www.worldtreeproject.org/document/2233

Coverage

Norway
Modern

Files

Einar Selvik Fiddle.mp4

Geolocation

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