GAFilk Is Coming and Mary Is Smiling
Nov. 7th, 2015 12:42 pmA week ago, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quadrivium wrote a post about her preparations for GAFilk. Now, Swedish is a highly melodic language, so I have a tendency to see or discover rhythms in words or phrases. In this case, the phrase matched the rhythm of the opening words of Smålandssången: "Röd lyser stugan bak hängbjörkens slöja" ("red shines the cabin behind the veil of the birch").
"Smålandssången" is one of the songs that were written in the late 19th and early 20th century as provincial hymns. Most of them are (mercifully) forgotten today, but they and other patriotic songs from that period have proven to be a good source for filking.
( GAFilk Is Coming and Mary Is Smiling )
(Regular readers might remember that I've used "Smålandssången" once before, but in Swedish: Marssången.)
quadrivium wrote a post about her preparations for GAFilk. Now, Swedish is a highly melodic language, so I have a tendency to see or discover rhythms in words or phrases. In this case, the phrase matched the rhythm of the opening words of Smålandssången: "Röd lyser stugan bak hängbjörkens slöja" ("red shines the cabin behind the veil of the birch")."Smålandssången" is one of the songs that were written in the late 19th and early 20th century as provincial hymns. Most of them are (mercifully) forgotten today, but they and other patriotic songs from that period have proven to be a good source for filking.
( GAFilk Is Coming and Mary Is Smiling )
(Regular readers might remember that I've used "Smålandssången" once before, but in Swedish: Marssången.)
