One Last Culture Post
For this blog I chose to go with traditional Norse music simply because I think that this culture is fascinating. I’m also trying to read some of the mythology that goes with this culture as lately I’ve just been pulled to it. In this blog I’m going to be going over some of the history, and the instruments used. In my research into this topic, I have found it would also mention another culture that I wrote about earlier in the semester. Both are well tied together. I am no longer able to find the article which stated this, which makes me sad, because I don’t even remember what I typed into Google to find it in the first place. Some of the instruments used in traditional Norse music are the Hardingfele, the Seljefløyte and the Kantele. The Hardingfele is the national instrument of Norway. It’s one of the few instruments that I found in my research that originated in Norway and not in another Scandinavian country. I never would have thought that a nation would have a national instrument...