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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2013 - 03:39pm PT
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From log driving history - Log driving director Johs Johannesen, river - Glomma, writes (around 1870):
"Yes, the log drivers are an elite corps, chosen through many hundred years of natural selection. Only the most quick-witted and resilient are attracted to be log drivers, while other men have gone in other directions. Only the most vigorous have wanted this work, because only they have the ability - and this has been the case also with their sons. This way it has been for many generations and because of that we now have log drivers that in fastness, resilience and quick-wittedness are the best ones you can ever hope to find." (Source: Ragnvald Bødtker. Norwegian log driving history. 1860 to 1943)
To repeat the great Canadian video posted by MH2 earlier:
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 29, 2013 - 03:51pm PT
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The river Rottnan (Swedish)/Rotna (Norwegian)
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Rotna is a 110 km long river that flows through Finnskogen from two small lakes at Hof Finnskog (in Aasnes kommune, Norway) to the lake Mellanfryken close to Rottneros (in Sweden). The video shows places down the river: one of the lakes at Hof Finnskog (Norway), Svullrya (Norway), Lekvattnet (Sweden), Gräsmark (Sweden) and Fryksdalen close to Rottneros where the river ends in Mellanfryken.
Most of the pictures are from Sweden.
Music: Mando Diao - Strövtåg i Hembygden (poem/lyrics by Gustaf Fröding)
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 4, 2013 - 01:56pm PT
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Thorstein Bergman - Omkring tiggaren från Luossa ('Round the begger from Luossa...) - Poem/lyrics: Dan Andersson
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'Round The Begger From Luossa
From Luossa came a beggar singing to the village folk.
Round the watch fire they lingered while he sang
Songs of pilgrims and of beggars, song of wondrous, wondrous things
And of his yearning did he sing the whole night long
"There is something beyond mountains, beyond stars and all the blossoms,
Something, too, behind my song, behind this burning heart of mine
Listen — something goes and whispers, goes and lures me and beseeches
Come to us, for earth below is not the kingdom that is thine!"
I have listened to the lapping of waves upon the shore,
I have dreamed that the wildest seas were calm and still.
And in spirit I have hurried to that contourless land,
Where the dearest we have known we´ll know no more.
To a wild, eternal longing were we born of ash-pale mothers,
And from travail, anxious, painful, rose our first, our wailing cry
Were we tossed on plain and hillside, just to tumble round and frolic,
Then we played at elk and lion, beggar, God and butterfly.
Did I sit beside her, silent, she whose heart was as my own,
Did she tend our home with soft and gentle hands,
Loudly was my own heart shouting, "What you own there is not yours!"
And my spirit drove me onward to find peace.
What I love is lying yonder, lies concealed in dusky distance,
And my rightful way leads high to wonders there.
In this clamor I am tempted to beseech Him, "Lord, O Master,
Take all earth away, for own I will what no one, no one has
Join me, brother, beyond mountains with their still and cooling rivers,
Where the sea is slow to slumber in its peak-encircled bed.
Somewhere far beyond the heavens lies my home, have I my mother
In a gold-besprinkled vapor, in rose-tinted mantle clad.
May the black and brackish waters cool our cheeks with fever reddened,
May we be from life far distant where the morning is awake
Never was I one with this world, and unending tribulation
Suffered, restless, unbelieving, suffered from my burning heart.
On a seashore sown with cockles stands a gate with roses laden,
There in slumber, vagrants perish and all weary souls find peace.
Song is never heard resounding, viols never echo, ringing
Under arches where forever cherubs of salvation dwell.
Translated by Caroline Schleef
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2013 - 03:36am PT
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Gräsmark - Varmland - in the Swedish part of Finnskogen
Map: Finnskogen with Grasmark in the lower right corner (Norway red, Sweden green)
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2013 - 03:50am PT
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Grasmark in our time
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2013 - 04:08am PT
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Once upon a time in Grasmark
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2013 - 04:18am PT
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Volvo PV 444/544 history
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In 1955 the first Volvo PV was exported to USA - on post order.
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2013 - 01:25pm PT
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Lekvattnet (in the Swedish part of Finnskogen - you find it just below the middle on the map):
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2013 - 01:46pm PT
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Old Forest Finns' farms in the Lekvattnet area
Karmenkynna
Ritamaki
Kvarntorp
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 13, 2013 - 04:43am PT
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Mid-summer in Varmland - Sweden...
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Song: Små grodorna (The little frogs)
Edited:
Thanks for the information Mouse. If you could see them, they're slightly intoxicated, but they've got rythm and style...
Here's another example of the little frog dance (Falun, Sweden):
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 13, 2013 - 07:02am PT
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That video is blocked in this US of A.
Content issues and so for the love of god, tell us what we are missing.
Is this another Monty Python Morris Men thing?*
*Well, that wasn't far, now, was it? The Flames got Morris. He's being held hostage.
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 20, 2013 - 12:43pm PT
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This weekend
On the road
Sønsterud
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 21, 2013 - 02:19pm PT
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Once upon a time when ironing really was iron-ing: 100 years old tool.
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 21, 2013 - 04:09pm PT
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Sofia Karlsson - Le Vin des Amants - Charles Baudelaire (translated by Dan Andersson)
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 3, 2013 - 12:37pm PT
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Finnskogen this weekend
Autumn
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 3, 2013 - 01:12pm PT
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Kaare Tveter
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 7, 2013 - 02:17pm PT
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Cranes at Finnskogen
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Ron
It's not my own video. There's so many excellent bird photographers at the bird thread posting their own photos...
I find cranes to be deeply fascinating birds... their cries as from another world, another time... as a kid I loved to see them fly, hearing them cry... it was an experience that left me completely lost for a while...
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