Country: Vendsyssel, Denmark
Type: couple dance
Formation: couples in open circle, waltz hold, facing in LOD.
Steps: chassé (two-step),
polka [or
hamborger]
Music: 358:557 or any hamborg tune not used for a set dance.
Recordings (hamborger):
Blandede Bolcher Icke tillsat kunstig farbe tracks 01 & 09;
Bundsbæk Spillemænd 17 melodier af Ole Kjær tracks 02 & 04;
Fauk Ungtrad live cd 1 track 04;
Fladstrand Spillemændene Spillemandsmusik track 08;
Floating Sofa Quartet Neighbourhood track 09;
Folkstow track A3;
Friis, Gunner Kalejdoskop tracks 03 & 10;
Hedebo Spillemændene track B9;
Impuls Trio track 01 [YouTube];
Jelling Spillemandslaug Mads Nielsen tracks 1, 2, 7, 8, 13 & 18;
Jelling Spillemandslaug Oxekow tracks 2, 5 & 10;
Jensen, Bugge & Høirup Slid din tid track 10 [YouTube];
Jydsk på Næsen Går'n så går'n track 04;
Lamb, Dwight, Jensen & Bugge Live in Denmark 2013 track 12 ]YouTube];
Larsen, Henning & Ann-Cathrin En pris ægte Bornholmsk track B6;
Løager & Ilsø På vores måde track 11;
Profil Two Accent track 09;
Ramsø Spillemandslaug Krammelarve tracks 08 & 14;
Rannok Dejodejo track 06;
Rannok Gammelt, nyt, lånt og blåt track 09;
Rebild Spillemændene Himmerlandsbal II track 08;
Ringkøbing Amts Spillemænd RAS i live - 25 år track 18;
Sjøgren, Kim Gamle danske folkedanse track 02;
Skånes Spelmansförbund Skånelåtar för småspelmän track 01
[YouTube];
Spillemandslauget Fandango Bal med Spillemandslauget Fandango track 07;
Svensson, Erik & Åge Skjelborg Havsprøjt og fattigmandstrøst track B8;
Svir Kredsen rundt cd 1 track 04;
Zar Strengeleg track 03.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-2 | (a) | Beginning with outside foot (ML/WR) all dance 2 chassé steps forward in LOD. |
| 3-4 | (b) | All dance 2 polka [or hamborger] steps turning CCW, while moving in LOD. |
| 5-8 | Repeat bars 1-4. | |
| 9-16 | Repeat twice. | |
| Repeat from (a) as desired. |
See videos from KØST2017 and YouTube from Folkedanserbal i Roskilde 2016
Note: based on the name, I am assuming that this was originally done to hamborger music, but changed to the more popular polka music
by the time it was documented in the early 1900s.
Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Vendsyssel og Læsø. 2 opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1982, pp. 31-32
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2020-05-06, rev. 2021-11-15.
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