Hjeltemos (CE39)

Per Gudmundson and Bengan Janson plays the title tune from their album "Hjeltamôs" (CE39, release date June 8, 2018). Video by Viktor Gårdsäter. Hjeltamôs means ”Hjelte’s” in the old Rättvik dialect – this is Hjelte’s polska. Anders Hjelte (1881–1964), from Söderås in Rättvik was a hunter and fiddler and was generally known as ”Hjelt’n”. Per has the tune after* Funk Anders, one of Hjelte’s fellow-fiddlers. If you have heard ”Frisells storpolska” from Gagnef, you can hear that the two are related. https://countryandeastern.se/records/...