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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 19, 2013 - 12:48pm PT
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An old man from Finnskogen was saved by a snuff box (Swedish Ettan)after falling into a bog hole where he was left alone for two days. It all started when he wanted to shoot a jay and was tempted to go deeper and deeper into the forest by the mocking birds. "Solung" is spoken here:
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 8, 2013 - 03:48pm PT
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BMW GS meeting Finnskogen, Norway, September 2013 - Black tour
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Fröding Det var dans bort i vägen, performed by Sven-Ingvars
There was dance on the road on a Saturday night,
over the vicin'ty the sound
of the game and the laughter was heard,
it was tjoh! there was jump! it was hey!
Nils Utterman, the fool and fiddlerman,
he played by the roadside,
for dudeli ! dudeli ! dey!
There was Bolla, the proud Takenegirlie,
she's beautiful, nice, but has nothing in her pocket,
she is eluding and fun and grand.
There was Kersti, the defiant, wand'ring & wild,
there was Finnbacka Britta and Kajsa and Tilda
and the stuck-up Marja in Brooks.
There was Petter from Toppsta
and Gusten from Hill,
they are boys with strength in their arms
who can lift a maiden high in the sky.
There was Flaxman at Croft
and Niklas in Svängen
and recruitee Pistol and Högvalta farmhand
and Cold-Johan from Skräddarebyn.
And they had like burning tow in their bodies,
as grasshoppers they jumped the Rejlandssteps,
and against stones they clicked their heels.
And coattails flapped, and aprons flew,
braids they jumped and the skirts swung around ,
and the music squealed and mewed.
In the thickets of birch trees
and alders and hazels
was whispering talk, it was tittle-tattle
among the darkening shadows there,
it was play, it was game among logs and rocks ,
it was cooing and cuddling under the shady branches
 If you want me, well, you have me here!
Over the countryside laid the twinkling starbeuty night,
gleaming light shone over the rippling water
in the deciduostree-garlanded lake
there was a smell from clover in the flowering fields
and from resinous cones on spruce and pine,
which shaded the crests of the hills.
And a fox there joined in their frolicing song,
and a owl shouted uhu! from Brynbärsbråten,
and they didn't notice, they heard it not.
But uhu! the echo in Getberget brayed,
and in response to Nils Utterman's dudelidia !
came the dudeli! dudeli dey!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 3, 2014 - 04:37pm PT
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Cool Lollie. At Finnskogen Sven-Ingvars was even more famous than Abba later became...
To stay in Värmland: Sven Ingvars - Fröken Fräken (1964)
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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I grew up with them. The local band. :-)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2014 - 04:57pm PT
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A couple of other tunes based on lyrics by the Finnskogen poet Dan Andersson
Hootenanny Singers (Abba-Björn singing)- Omkring tiggarn' från Luossa
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Jailbird Singers - Där björkarna susa
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2014 - 05:41pm PT
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On a wet day, on the road, in and out of focus, at the border of Finnskogen, last weekend...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 19, 2014 - 12:49pm PT
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Mouse: Thanks for posting! Grieg, Munthe and fjords - Norway at it's best...
Sønsterud this weekend:
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 19, 2014 - 12:58pm PT
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Where the water from Bråtebekken flows into the Flisa river:
The land of fallen trees where the wind blows and beavers rule...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 19, 2014 - 02:01pm PT
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Morn morn, Marlow! I've been waiting to say that. ;-)
Finnskogen del Sur...
The Beaver was introduced to Tierra del Fuego in the 1950's in the misguided
belief that the fecund beasts would provide a new source of livelihood for
the natives. Sadly, Peronism and the dole were more attractive. Thanks
to the lack of predators the furry devils' population exploded much to the
detriment of the environment.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Apr 19, 2014 - 02:16pm PT
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 19, 2014 - 02:19pm PT
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Reilly: "Öppna landskap" of great beauty. TFPU!
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Introducing animals to ecosystems where they don't belong is an experiment to be avoided.
In Norway the situation is horrible concerning wild salmon. Wild salmon is dying and disappearing... Fishing is now an industry... and fish a product ("oppdrettslaks")...
TGT
Is Norwegian Wood the name of the crack/route? Do you know what's behind the choice of name. The Beatles?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 19, 2014 - 02:38pm PT
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TGT
Dag is still climbing strong and barefooted. Trond died last year.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 19, 2014 - 07:46pm PT
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Finnskogen del Sur hytte. I bet you'd feel right at home here, Marlow.
Even the decorations could be norsk, ikke sant? This is only about 15 km
from the sea, hence the nautical bent.
The name says "Akeaata". Hell, for all I know that is Sami!
We got up out of the bog...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2014 - 03:55am PT
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Reilly
The "hytte" (cabin) is as taken from a Norwegian fairytale. Don't ask me which... a generic fairytale...
Curious as I am, I googled "akeaata". The closest I came was "akata", which is surely not the same word, but had a cool meaning:
"a cat that is not at home"
Do you know the origin of the word "akeaata"?
As you see from the following picture there's also something African about the two teeth by the left cabin at Akeaata, unless they're from a mammut...
Quite a place Akeaata...
Here's something Norwegian - an "akematte"
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Apr 20, 2014 - 06:01am PT
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Jag älskar Öppna Landskap, Marlow. Omkring tiggaren vid Loussa kommer inte långt efter.
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