Hedningarna
Sign in to saveHedningarna (The Heathens) is a Swedish, and for some years partly Finnish, folk music band that mixes electronics and rock with elements from old Scandinavian folk music. Their music features yoik or juoiggus, a traditional Sami form of song.
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- Musical artist.name
- Hedningarna
- Musical artist.background
- group_or_band
- Musical artist.origin
- SwedenFinland
- Musical artist.genre
- Folk musicFolk rockNordic Roots revivalDark FolkWorld music
- Musical artist.years_active
- 1989–present
- Musical artist.label
- Silence Records
- Musical artist.current_members
- Hållbus Totte MattsonAnders NoruddeChristian SvenssonMagnus Stinnerbom
- Musical artist.past_members
- Björn TollinAnita Lehtola-TollinLiisa MatveinenSanna Kurki-SuonioTellu Paulasto (Virkkala, Turkka)Ulf Ivarsson
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Hedningarna (The Heathens) is a Swedish, and for some years partly Finnish, folk music band that mixes electronics and rock with elements from old Scandinavian folk music. Their music features yoik or juoiggus, a traditional Sami form of song.
==History== Hållbus Totte Mattson, Anders Stake and Björn Tollin formed Hedningarna in 1987. Hedning is Swedish for , while ar is the plural suffix, and na is the definite article (thus hedningar 'heathens', hedningarna 'the heathens'). They wanted to go far back to the roots of the Old Norse culture, including the use of ancient instruments not much used in current Swedish folk music. Stake, a trained luthier, also began to invent and build new instruments, to produce new sounds.
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