{"id":660,"date":"2021-09-24T16:41:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T16:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=660"},"modified":"2021-09-24T17:41:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T17:41:03","slug":"langbacka-jans-polska","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/langbacka-jans-polska\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u00e5ngbacka Jans Polska"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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L\u00e5ngbacka Jans Polska<\/strong> is one of the best-known tunes connected to this special 19th-century musician.<\/p>

\u00a0 Jan Persson was born in 1800, and lived to just short of the age of 80.\u00a0 \u00a0He was born and raised in Rasbo, in the province of Uppland.\u00a0 A long steep ridge was in the area, and that gave him the nickname L\u00e5ngbacka Jan.<\/p>

\u00a0 He played both clarinet and fiddle, but was much best known for his fiddling.\u00a0 \u00a0Although a shoemaker by trade, he was constantly in demand to play music for dances, weddings, etc.\u00a0 A folklore belief developed around him, having to do with his having learned to play from otherworldly forces.\u00a0 The fact that he moved away and stopped playing for religious reasons only amplified the stories in his old home area.<\/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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\u00a0 Stories about L\u00e5ngbacka Jan include playing so the furniture danced, his fiddle playing without him touching it, and the devil appearing in the flesh to him, so he had to run and hide behind the altar in the church to protect himself.\u00a0 \u00a0 One of the most famous legends about him is in the description in this website about\u00a0L\u00e5ngbacka Jans G\u00e5ngl\u00e5t<\/strong>.<\/p>

\u00a0 To the left is a picture of Rasbo church, which provided L\u00e5ngbacka Jan with a defense from Satan.<\/p>

\u00a0 Here<\/a> is a link to a YouTube video of L\u00e5ngbacka Jans Polska being played by two of the most famous fiddlers in 20th-century Sweden.\u00a0 Eric \u00d6st, from H\u00e4lsingland, was a prolific fiddler from a prominent fiddling family.\u00a0 On nyckelharpa is Eric Sahlstr\u00f6m, unquestionably the top player of all time.<\/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":"

L\u00e5ngbacka Jans Polska is one of the best-known tunes connected to this special 19th-century musician. \u00a0 Jan Persson was born in 1800, and lived to just short of the age of 80.\u00a0 \u00a0He was born and raised in Rasbo, in the province of Uppland.\u00a0 A long steep ridge was in the area, and that gave […]<\/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-660","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/660","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=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}