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Thread #50562   Message #838273
Posted By: Tweed
01-Dec-02 - 11:54 AM
Thread Name: Oldest European Folk Song
Subject: RE: Oldest European Folk Song
Here's a page with a little more info on the Saami people and their music. Seems like if there was any music that the Churchy people didn't understand it got labeled "Devil's Music", worldwide. Glad some of it made it through the blight.
More on Saami (Lapps) Music here.

I hesitate now to use the word "Lapplanders" to describe these folks as I learned today that it is a derogatory term meaning "People with Patches on their Clothes", given by the early missionaries and soldiers.

Tweed