Tagelharpa - Ancient Nordic Viking Instrument

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[jarjars]

Allright, so the Tagelharpa is not a Scandinavian instrument, it's Finno-Scandian, historically prevalent within Karelia, a border region between Finland and Russia. Also, it's earliest appearance in history is after the Christianization of the region and therefore after the Viking age.

Granted that there off course is a chance that the Vikings would bring bowed instruments from those nations they traveled to, most probably from the Eastern Roman Empire. Yet they did not play a Tagelharpa, but a Byzantine lyre. Still that theory does go against the most popular one, which is that bowed instruments in Europe first arrived in south Europe from the far east and gradually made their way north.

[xunqianbaidu]

Five minutes of googling could have told you that it is not a Viking instrument, as it came from the Baltic.

[aringsinukuan]

Nice video, but I don't think the tagelharpa is a traditional Ancient Nordic instrument.

[NymphettEcho]

Gorgeous instrument, but not Scandinavian. It has been adopted in themed and fantasy Viking circles. Again, cool instrument and super aesthetic, but there’s a lot of misinformation about fact and fiction going around.

[BestKCL]

This title is so historically innacurate. We'll see if the video says the same falsehoods

[thecicim]

It sounds like Krobak's songs (not bad way:d)

[Spladoinkal]

Oh I've heard this before! I didn't realize I was listening to a legit instrument from that era though!

[Mike-xgmi]

Everyone saying it’s not a Nordic / Viking instrument didn’t do enough research. The Baltic / Slavic region everyone keeps mentioning was literally settled by Varangians who are from SWEDEN and are Norsemen. Kiev (and many other places in the region) were literally founded by “Vikings”.
TLDR: Finns/Rus/northern Baltics are Varangians / Vikings from mainly Sweden. Still Norse.