Country: Replot/Raippaluoto, Finland
Type: couple dance
Formation: open circle of couples, waltz hold, facing in LOD.
Steps: galopp (slip-steps),
polka
markering (stamp/stomp)
Sheet music:
(1) Heikel, Yngvar/ Nr. 100 in: Folkdans: B. dansbeskrivningar sammanställda av Yngvar Heikel.
Helsingfors: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 1938. p.378.
(2) Finlands Svenska Folkdansring/ Årsprogram 2006-2007. [Helsingfors]: Finlands Svenska Folkdansring rf, [2006]. p.10.;
(3) Finlands svenska folkdansring/ Årsprogram 1999-2000. [Helsingfors]: Finlands Svenska Folkdansring rf, [1999]. p.35;
(4) Allenby-Jaffé, Nigel & Margaret/ nr 5 in: 10 dances from Finland. (European folk dance series) Skipton: Folk Dance Enterprises, 1988.
Recordings:
Finlands Svenska Folkdansring Årsprogram 1999-2000 track 25;
Finlands Svenska Folkdansring Årsprogram 2006-2007 track 13;
Spillemandslauget Østjyderne Nordiske legestuemelodier track 06.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| 1-4 | (a) | Circle: In waltz hold, all dance 6 galopp steps moving in LOD. [Ie. slip steps, without turning]
All stamp with outside (ML/WR) foot on (4). |
| 5-8 | All dance 6 galopp steps moving in RLOD. [Ie. slip steps, without turning]
All stamp with inside( MR/WL) foot on (8). |
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| 1-8 | Repeat (a).
Alternative 1: holding inside hands, walk forward in LOD (1-4), in 2-hand hold, dance slip-steps back in RLOD (5-8), Repeat. [Heikel, nr 719] Alternative 2: individually, both hands on hips, M walks diagonally to L [sic] past partner, 8 walking steps (1-2), W walks diagonally to L [sic] past partner, 8 walking steps (3-4), Repeat 3 times (5-8,1-8). [Heikel, nr 720] |
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| 9-16 | (b) | Polka: In waltz hold, all dance polka, turning CW and moving in LOD. |
| 17-24 | All dance polka, turning CCW and moving in LOD.
Repeat from (a) as desired. |
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| Lyrics
/:Kopparslagarn, här i Vasa, lider ingen nöd, för har han inte brännvin så knaprar han på bröd:/ /:Trala-la-la-la-la-lalalala-lej:/ trala-la-la-la-la-lalalala-lej trala-lala-la-lala-lalalala-lej |
See YouTube videos Pellinge folkdansare 2013, Folkdansare from Borgå and Lovisa 2014, Sibbo folkdansare & Spjutsunds folkdanslag 2015.
Provenance: original description by Yngvar Heikel in 1927 from informant Sven Abraham Vest (born 1859), a country musician, and his sister
Anna Snickars (born 1871), in Norra Vallgrund.
See also:
Den glade kobbersmed [Denmark],
Swede-Finn mixer
Source: Heikel, Yngvar/ Nr. 713-721 in: Folkdans: B. dansbeskrivningar sammanställda av Yngvar Heikel.
(Skrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 268; Finlands Svenska folkdiktning, VI) Faksimilutgåva 1982.
Helsingfors: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 1938. pp. XIII, 378-380, 454-455 .
See also:
-- Finlands Svenska Folkdansring/ Årsprogram 2006-2007. [Helsingfors]: Finlands Svenska Folkdansring rf, [2006]. pp.9-10.;
-- Finlands svenska folkdansring/ Årsprogram 1999-2000. [Helsingfors]: Finlands Svenska Folkdansring rf, [1999]. pp. 35, 86-87.
-- description prepared for Nordlek 1991 in Vejle.
-- Allenby-Jaffé, Nigel & Margaret/ nr 5 in: 10 dances from Finland. (European folk dance series) Skipton: Folk Dance Enterprises, 1988.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2020-09-25, rev. 2023-02-17.
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