Sometimes around Easter we travel to the province of Jämtland , half way up in Sweden Norway -5 C . But it can be a lot colder – or warmer.
Jämtland is in the geographic center of the Scandinavian peninsula and sports a colorful history, despite being only sparsely populated. Norwegian settlers established an independent peasant republic here in the early Middle Ages, concurrently with another Norwegian emigration project: Iceland. Jämtland then reverted to Norwegian rule for the next 400 years, came briefly under Danish control before being taken over by Sweden in the 17th century. After that Jämtlanders had to wait for more than a century before being accepted as Swedish citizens.
Jämtland’s mountain ranges are roughly the southern limit of the the Samer (Lapp) people. Some Samer cultural traits can remind of the North American plains Indians, something that even ethnographers find noteworthy. The traditional jojk-singing could be taken as being Indian by the uninitiated listener. Sofia Jannok is one of the young popularizers of traditional Samer music. Usually she writes and sings in her native North Samer dialect, but often switches to Swedish and English as well, as in the featured song "Whiter Than Snow".
So then: Music: Sofia Jannok - Photography: Wolfgang Roosch
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Jämtland is in the geographic center of the Scandinavian peninsula and sports a colorful history, despite being only sparsely populated. Norwegian settlers established an independent peasant republic here in the early Middle Ages, concurrently with another Norwegian emigration project: Iceland. Jämtland then reverted to Norwegian rule for the next 400 years, came briefly under Danish control before being taken over by Sweden in the 17th century. After that Jämtlanders had to wait for more than a century before being accepted as Swedish citizens.
Jämtland’s mountain ranges are roughly the southern limit of the the Samer (Lapp) people. Some Samer cultural traits can remind of the North American plains Indians, something that even ethnographers find noteworthy. The traditional jojk-singing could be taken as being Indian by the uninitiated listener. Sofia Jannok is one of the young popularizers of traditional Samer music. Usually she writes and sings in her native North Samer dialect, but often switches to Swedish and English as well, as in the featured song "Whiter Than Snow".
So then: Music: Sofia Jannok - Photography: Wolfgang Roosch
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schöner block: frostige bilder mit dynamischem Lied : sehr schön.
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