START A STEV DANCE CRAZE

Norway's North Germanic folk music focuses on two kinds of songs -- kvad (ballads) and stev, which are poetic songs, most of which are several centuries old. Some researchers have concluded that stev originally accompanied dances, though related dances are long lost. If that makes you sad,  don't mope -- start your own new tradition by dancing along to the stev performed by in this video by Sondre Bratland and Kirsten Bråten Berg.

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