Lyr Req: Howska yul du wa (phonetic

Subject: Lyr Add: Howska yul du wa (phonetic
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 05:33 PM

Just heard on scandinavian hour. Mostly Scandinavian words. About people coming from Olson's barn and the miner's hall I presume to have a Christmas shindig. Any one known it? mg

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Howska yul du wa (phonetic
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 06:39 PM

I think they said the name was the Old Finn Hall. Sure wish I was going in another direction to Christmas tomorrow...we always drove to Cathlamet...town on the Columbia...very Scandinavian of all persuasion...actually if weather is good I maybe could take the round about way to Tacoma...mg

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Howska yul du wa (phonetic
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 05:41 PM

I wish I could help. I don't know any Scandinavian language myself, but I live in Minnesota, where a lot of Swedish and Norwegian immigrants settled in the 19th century, and I do hear Scandinavian Christmas carols occasionally.

Here are links to (1) a list of Julsånger (Christmas songs) at the Swedish version of Wikipedia, and the corresponding pages in (2) Norwegian and (3) Danish.

While researching this, I ran across one song that I recognized, and I posted it in another thread, since it's probably not the one you're looking for: JEG ER SÅ GLAD HVER JULEKVELD.