Tune Req: Gimli Waltz

Subject: Gimli Waltz
From: GUEST,donann
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 01:33 PM

This waltz by Oli Thorsteinson is named for the community of Gimli, Manitoba and I'd like to find the tune. Anyone familiar with it?? Thanks.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: Callie
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 05:47 PM

Oh, I'm disappointed. I thought it was Gimli the Dwarf's dance from Tolkein. I thought I might have been able to help!! Callie

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: Mbo
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 06:22 PM

My thought's exactly, Callie! Gimli was also a giant in Norse Mythology...

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: Callie
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 06:33 PM

Really? Do tell! What did he do? And how did little Gimli be named after big Gimli?! Callie

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: Mbo
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 06:41 PM

He got ripped apart and the world was made out of him--so next time you see rocks, you'll know that's the Giant Gimli's mashed bones!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: Callie
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 07:46 PM

Thanks Mbo! I will remember the Norse giant respectfully on sighting rocks!

That doesn't explain Tolkein. Maybe he never heard of the giant and just got the name out of his brain - sort of a parallel-universe-but-centuries-later thing. Then again, maybe he was having a wee joke and laughing at we Norse-ignorant folks.

Callie

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: sophocleese
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 08:04 PM

Tolkien, being the guy who was interested in the languages and lore of other folks, would probably have known exactly what he was doing when he named Gimli the Dwarf, a character who lives in and works closely with rocks, after a Norse Giant whose bones are the rocks that made the earth. However this still isn't getting us any closer to the original request. It sounds like it could be interesting. Is Gimli Manitoba a rocky sort of place?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: sophocleese
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 08:52 PM

But I found this neat site on the town of Gimli. Thay have music playing but I somehow suspect that it is not the Gimli Waltz.

http://www.interlakeonline.com/gimli/

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: MMario
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 09:14 PM

I found another site that called gimli manitoba "little iceland"

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: Mbo
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 10:38 PM

Oh yes, Tolkien was VERY aware of Norse sagas, in fact he loved them! I.e. all the dwarves names in "The Hobbit" come from Snorri Sturluson's Elder Edda, except Balin! Tolkien was also up on Finnish mythology, but I won't go into that. BTW can you tell that I'm a diehard Tolkien scholar?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: Callie
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 10:41 PM

No - I never suspected. you've been very subtle about it. (Sarcasm stops here. Resume normal programming...)

Thanks for the info on Elder Edda. I'll look into it! How interesting! Callie

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: Crowhugger
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:19 AM

OK, but the tune?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: Mbo
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:20 AM

Who cares? Talking about the Professor is lots more fun!:{>

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: Callie
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 05:21 PM

Perhaps someone had better write the Gimli Waltz. (It would have very small steps!) -Callie

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 06:24 PM

I don't know if this will help, but there is a cassette available here, title and order number are--Johnny and His Musical Mates, The Gimli Waltz, CAT. #SSBCT-435 (cs)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: Crowhugger
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 06:31 PM

I care, Meebee! :-)

Thanks, Sorcha, I'll check it out. I know someone who knows someone...who lives in Gimli. Remarkably far from nowhere, he said after visiting. But they have some sort of music festival, which I recommend attending only by cassette or CD - the skeeters in Manitoba are so bad it's like holding a bush party in the Everglades!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: Crowhugger
Date: 11 Mar 00 - 04:34 AM

Sorcha, Did you find any prices or ordering info on that website you found? Maybe I didn't look far enough, but usually record folks are willing to put prices and "order here" all over the place. Meanwhile, I e-mailed them to ask about Gimli Waltz in particular, so with any luck we'll have some solid info from one source (you) or another (them).

CH.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: skarpi
Date: 11 Mar 00 - 09:06 AM

Hallo all , Óli Thorsteinsson is an Icelandic name not from Norway. And Snorri Sturlusson Is also from Iceland so do not involve norway into this I am hurt? Just a joke . I would like get little Iceland wed site does enyone know the way?????? All the best skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gimli Waltz
From: skarpi
Date: 11 Mar 00 - 09:07 AM

woobs! Web side is the word. sorry. skarpi Iceland