Country: Salling, Randersegnen, & Fyn, Denmark
Type: couple dance
Formation: any number of couples in open circle, holding inside hands
Steps: tyrolerhopsa,
hopsa,
hoptrin (step-hop)
Music:
(1) 'Marken er mejet' 358:257
(2) Bidstrup, Georg/ 'The meadow is mowed' in:
Singing games and folk dances. Brasstown NC: John C. Campbell Folk School, 1941. p.25.
Recordings:
Haugaard, Dan Danish folk songs [YouTube];
Herning Kirkes Drengekor [YouTube];
Sjøgren, Kim Den danske sang [YouTube];
Spillemandslauget Djursland-Mols [YouTube];
Spillemandslauget Østjyderne Nordiske legestuemelodier track 11 [Google]; .
Square Dansk Les lanciers track 12 [YouTube].
[Note: most recordings from especially the 1940-1950s available in the
Internet Archive are in jazz and other rhythms, which are not appropriate here.]
| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| |:1-8:| | (a) | All dance tyrolerhopsa [ie 4 promenade steps + 4 couple turning steps, repeat], beginning with stepping onto outside (ML/WR) foot, and moving in LOD. |
| |:9-16:| | (b) | Couples dance 16 step-hops forward in LOD, as W turns CW under joined inside hands.
Repeat from (a) as desired. Lyrics: Adolph Recke, 1868
Loen vi pynter med blomster og blade,
|
See video from KØST2017
Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme/ Gamle Salling-danse. 4:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme, 1980, p. 10.
See also:
-- Bidstrup, Georg/ 'The meadow is mowed' in:
Singing games and folk dances. Brasstown NC: John C. Campbell Folk School, 1941. p.25.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2020-05-26, rev. 2023-08-26.
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