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Today is our Independence day (Iceland)

17 Jun 07 - 07:09 AM (#2079144)
Subject: Today is our Independenceday
From: skarpi

Good morning all , today is our Independenceday .
It was 1944 that we formaly said goodbye to the Danish nation
and on this day we have alot goin on in our country .

All the best Skarpi Iceland .


17 Jun 07 - 07:11 AM (#2079146)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independenceday
From: kendall

Good on you all.


17 Jun 07 - 07:16 AM (#2079152)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independenceday
From: John MacKenzie

A good move that Skarpi, saying goodbye to the Danes, I bet you wish they'd done it sooner.
Enjoy your day my friend.
Giok


17 Jun 07 - 07:27 AM (#2079160)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Scooby Doo

Skarpi,
Do you celebrate today in anyway?.


Scooby.


17 Jun 07 - 07:34 AM (#2079167)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: The Fooles Troupe

Good Feelings Skarpi...


17 Jun 07 - 07:34 AM (#2079169)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Sandra in Sydney

enjoy the day

sandra


17 Jun 07 - 07:43 AM (#2079170)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: skarpi

Scoopy Doo ,

we started celebrate last night hehehe and will keep on doing
that all day , yes every year on 17 of June we have fun .

All the best Skarpi Iceland


17 Jun 07 - 07:50 AM (#2079172)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Sandy Mc Lean

Best wishes Skarpi!
I suppose that this time of year it's a daylight celebration.


17 Jun 07 - 07:59 AM (#2079174)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Ernest

Now start a tradition:

Organize a concert, free drinks and food, a parade etc.

Oh, and don`t forget to call it "St. Skarpi`s day"...

;0)

Best
Ernest


17 Jun 07 - 08:03 AM (#2079175)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Severn

Happy Independance Day, Skarpi and Gunna!

Is that pronounced "Bann-ish the Dann-ish" or "Bain-ish the Dain-ish", Giok? he asked dis-Dane-fully.

I'll go back and re-read Dashiell Hammett's "The Dane Curse" and see if I can find any more historical data on all this.....


17 Jun 07 - 09:12 AM (#2079207)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Scooby Doo

Well Skarpi enjoy the night and day.I have a dram on your behave.


Scooby


17 Jun 07 - 09:30 AM (#2079213)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: John MacKenzie

I will treat your remark with the Diss-Dane that it so richly deserves Severn.
Giok ¦¬]


17 Jun 07 - 10:17 AM (#2079235)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: skarpi

well Scoopy Doo , my behave is as always good, I stay at home
today fixing my garden I love to be outside in good weathers
either hiking or doing some work in the garden .

My band is not playing now this weekend so I enjoy be at home .
All the best Skarpi Iceland


17 Jun 07 - 10:30 AM (#2079243)
Subject: Tune Add: LOFSÖNGUR / ICELANDIC NATIONAL ANTHEM
From: Jack Campin

The tune for the Icelandic national anthem was composed in Edinburgh. There's a blue plaque on the wall of the building where it was written. It dates from 1874 when Iceland first got its own constitution giving the Althing legislative powers within the Kingdom of Denmark.

Words by the Rev Matthias Jochumsson (1835-1920)
Music by Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson (1847-1926).
The words, referring to "Iceland's thousand years", mark the 1000th anniversary of the foundation of Iceland by Ingolf Arnason.

X:1
T:Lofsöngur
T:Song of Praise
S:W.L. Reed & M.J. Bristow, National Anthems of the World, Cassell, 1997
N:rhyme scheme ABCB DEDEDDE
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=96 "Andante"
K:Eb
B,2 | E2 F2    G3    F| E2 F2 D2\
z B |(cd)`eB    A2 G`E|(GF)`EF G2
z B | B2 AG    G2 F`E|(DE)`FG Az\
f`e | d2 cB    F2 B=A| B2 z2 z2
B,B,| C2 B,=A, B,2 E`G| B2 (cd) e3\
e | d2 Gc    B2 B=A| G2 z2 z2
z B | g2 gf    e2 G`G| A2 AG F3\
c | B2 EF    G2 G`F| E4      z2
B`A | G2 B2    F2 d`B| B2 e2 Hf2\
z B | g2 gf    e2 G`G| A2 AG F3\
c | B2 EF    G2 G`F| E4      z2|]


17 Jun 07 - 10:56 AM (#2079263)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Jim Lad

Don't be spending all day in the garden, Skarpi. Aren't the pups open on a Sunday?


17 Jun 07 - 11:27 AM (#2079282)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: skarpi

who wants to go into a Icelandic ( Pub) !!!

not me my friend not me .

Iceland 1000 year , is a very difficult song to sing and not many
can do that .

well back to the garden fairys , my little friends are waiting for me
:>))

All the best Skarpi Iceland.


17 Jun 07 - 12:14 PM (#2079304)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Sorcha

Do you do fireworks? We do, well, most people here do for our independence day. Start fires all over the place in the dry West. I guess it's fun tho.

Have a nice day, Skarpi!


17 Jun 07 - 12:15 PM (#2079305)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Ron Davies

Congratulations--any particular songs that do get sung on your Independence Day?


17 Jun 07 - 12:27 PM (#2079313)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Severn

Our National Anthem is no Fourth Of July picnic either, Skarpi. The number of celebrities who have butchered it at the beginning of major sporting events often for a National TV audience, is far too long to mention. I've seen Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and John Hiatt (someone whose recordings I actually buy) massacre it in person at Baltimore Orioles baseball games.

But the tune WAS borrowed from a drinking song sung in pubs. I guess nobody cared if you hit that damned high note toward the end or not in the tavern.


17 Jun 07 - 12:29 PM (#2079316)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: GUEST,Tam

Do you think Scotland will ever have the guts to follow Iceland in independence?


17 Jun 07 - 12:31 PM (#2079319)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Ron Davies

Remember the rendering (in all its parts) of the US national anthem by Leslie Nielsen in "Naked Gun"? Classic.


17 Jun 07 - 12:34 PM (#2079321)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: JennyO

Actually, I can't think of a better way to spend a special day than out in the garden. That's what I would choose too. Have a magical time with your garden fairies, Skarpi!


17 Jun 07 - 12:49 PM (#2079331)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: skarpi

thanks Jenny :>)

Guest Tam , its totally under the Scottish people
if they want an Independence from UK then they should start
digging the road , its not gonna go by in one day .
And I think Iceland would support that Independency.

All the best Skarpi Iceland


17 Jun 07 - 01:25 PM (#2079352)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: GUEST,Tam

Thanks Skarpi and congratulations. You have proved that a small country can go it alone. What are your main sources of income?


17 Jun 07 - 08:50 PM (#2079581)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: gnu

Have (oops... had) a good day, skarpi!

Canuckistan was weened from Colonialism in 1867, but it was about a hundred years later that we adopted out own flag, The Maple Leaf, and finally, really, let The Union Jack off.

I hope you fly your flag high upon your pole and salute with pride.


17 Jun 07 - 09:31 PM (#2079598)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: The Borchester Echo

I have just celebrated Iceland's Independence Day in the best possible way at a concert by Bára Grímsdóttir and Chris Foster performing as Funi, singing in parallel fifths and playing fidla, langspil and mildly amplified egg slicer.

Morgunbaen, a 17th century hymn, is one of the most sublime vocal renditions I have ever heard. And Chris did his epically famous Lord Bateman.

Tonight I'll fall asleep happily.


17 Jun 07 - 10:11 PM (#2079609)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: katlaughing

Sorry I am late to your thread, Skarpi. It sounds as though you had a very nice day. Congratulations to Iceland for her Independence!

Ast,


kat


18 Jun 07 - 12:20 AM (#2079654)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Lucius

Good for you. I remember when America used to hae an Independence Day, then again I remember when we had a democracy....sigh! Best returns.


18 Jun 07 - 02:12 AM (#2079673)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Jim Lad

Tam: "What are your main sources of income?"
Lava, Tam. They bottle the stuff and sell it to bus loads of blue haired tourists. I'm still trying to figure out where he got the dirt for the garden.
As for Skarpi's advice to you .... Spot on Skarpi. I've always thought that just by asking for independence you are in actual fact, admitting that you don't deserve it. If it belongs to you Tam, take it. Emigration was my solution though.
Regards.
Jim


18 Jun 07 - 02:36 AM (#2079679)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Ebbie

I'm late writing, Skarpi, but I did wish you a Happy Independence Day and think fond thoughts of you. {{{{hug}}}}

Ebbie


18 Jun 07 - 02:42 AM (#2079680)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: skarpi

Diane , I am glad you liked Bára Grímsdóttir she does old Songs
in here own way .

are you in Iceland now ?

all the best Skarpi Iceland

P.S Gnu our FLAG is raised to the top and we did salute with pride.


18 Jun 07 - 06:50 AM (#2079773)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Pete_Standing

I was with Diane last night at the Funi concert - marvellous stuff. The Oxford Folk Festival also had Steindór Andersen a couple of years back, performing in the fantastic Holywell Music Room. Iceland has some culture that is enriching us!

I hope you enjoyed your day Skarpi!


18 Jun 07 - 09:13 AM (#2079874)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: Scooby Doo

Skarpi,
I hope you enjoyed your day gardening.


Scooby.


18 Jun 07 - 03:30 PM (#2080201)
Subject: RE: Today is our Independence day (Iceland)
From: concertina ceol

wot no mention of cod war?