{"id":1007,"date":"2021-11-23T17:34:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=1007"},"modified":"2021-11-23T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:35:07","slug":"vendelpolskan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/vendelpolskan\/","title":{"rendered":"Vendelpolskan"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0\u00a0Vendelpolskan\u00a0<\/strong>is one of the most revered tunes in the Uppland repertoire.\u00a0 It was composed by the beloved fiddler, Viksta-Lasse (Johan Leonard Larsson).<\/p>

Lasse was born in the village of Viksta in 1897, and lived to the ripe old age of 90.\u00a0 \u00a0He began playing fiddle when he was 10, with a cigar-box fiddle.\u00a0 By the time he was 15, he was winning prizes for his fiddling.<\/p>

As a young teen he was taken under the wing of the great Bingsj\u00f6 fiddler, Hjort Anders Olsson, and became his protog\u00e9.\u00a0 \u00a0He went on to become once of the most celebrated fiddlers of his time and place.<\/p>

By the church in Viksta, there is a monument to him.\u00a0 The fiddler seated in the picture to the right is Viksta-Lasse in 1974.\u00a0 The fiddler with the hat and moustache is noted fiddler and nyckelharpa player Leif Alpsj\u00f6.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Construction of the church at Vendel<\/a> was started in the 13th century.\u00a0 \u00a0It was expanded over the years, and in the 15th century was decorated with religious paintings all over the walls and ceiling.\u00a0 Eventually the conservative Lutheran authorities had them all whitewashed, as being “too Catholic”, but an ongoing restoration of the church has uncovered most of them.<\/p>

Iron age graves near the church revealed artifacts which helped define a Viking-like culture in Sweden’s history, now known as the Vendel Age.<\/p>

The tune, Vendelpolskan, is one of the most famous compositions of Viksta-Lasse.\u00a0 \u00a0It is equally good on both fiddle and nyckelharpa.\u00a0 He composed it for the fiddle festival held in Vendel in 1975.<\/p>

Here<\/a> is a YouTube video of it being played in Vendel in 2010.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0Vendelpolskan\u00a0is one of the most revered tunes in the Uppland repertoire.\u00a0 It was composed by the beloved fiddler, Viksta-Lasse (Johan Leonard Larsson). Lasse was born in the village of Viksta in 1897, and lived to the ripe old age of 90.\u00a0 \u00a0He began playing fiddle when he was 10, with a cigar-box fiddle.\u00a0 By the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1007","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}