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Instrument(s) Flute; Hardanger fiddle; Langeleik; Seljefloyte; Violin; Willow flute.

Year of Recording 1954.

Record Label Folkways Records.

Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Credits Produced by O. M. (Ole Mørk) Sandvik ; Produced by Harold Courlander.

101 Dance Song – Kjeringji mae stav’en – Old Woman with the Staff Talleiv Roysland 0:47.

102 Halling – Kivledal Girls / Lullaby (medley) Eivind Groven 4:12.

103 Springleik – Springdans – Springar – Pols – Dance Hans Brimi 1:28.

104 Polsdans Sven Nyhus 1:59.

105 Sand vass bylgjun – Sand-Water Waves / I Valle – In valle / Mae ljos-blå augo – With Light Blue Eyes / Dei sat so saele – So Happily They Sat (medley) Sigrid Faremo 2:18.

106 Eg kan ‘kje gløyme – I Can’t Forget / Dei Husmanns døttan – The Crofter’s Daughters (medley) Olav Harstad 2:08.

107 Halling – Acrobatic Solo Dance / Julekvelden – Christmas Eve (medley) Ola Brenno 2:30.

201 Sulla rulla gjertrue mi – Sulla Rulla My Gertrude / Vassro-Fela – Watercreek Fiddle Was Wooden / Bissam, bissam bån’e – Sleep, Sleep My Baby (medley) O. M. (Ole Mørk) Sandvik 1:44.

202 Springar – Dance Johannes Dale 2:21.

203 Skalgmoyane – Girls from Skalg, The – Gangar Olav Heggland 2:40.

204 The Myllargutens – Miller Boy’s Wedding March Eivind Groven 3:32.

205 Springar – Dance Eivind Groven 2:10.

206 Cattle Calls Helene Tronsmo and Ingeborg Jordet 1:23.

207 Verses from the Draumkvedet – The Vision of Heaven and Hell Gudrun Grave Nørlund 1:20.

208 Roland og Magnus Kongjen – Roland and Charlemagne Gudrun Grave Nørlund 1:30.