#Ædnan

[underthepile]

How am I to

tell stories about life

…………………………

How am I to

explain to them

that the ruin

is in my voice

—Linnea Axelsson, Ædnan

#linnea axelsson #Ædnan #aednan #translation

[heritageposts]

🇵🇸 From the second ESC semi-final: man waves a small Palestinian flag during Israel's performance, and is immediately escorted out by security

I've seen people try to excuse this by saying there's always been a list of approved flags for Eurovision.

And yes, while it's true that ESC has had an official flag policy for years now—with nation flags either limited to those with UN status, or to participating countries—it's also something that has only been selectively enforced in the past, and never which the kind of hostility we're seeing in Malmö right now.

The first time I remember hearing about the Eurovision flag policy was in 2016, when a Sami artist was representing Norway. The Norwegian broadcaster of ESC, NRK, reported then that the Semi flag was "technically" banned from the ESC arena, but that, according to ESC's the former head of communications, it would be up to the security at the arena whether they enforced this ban or not:

The music competition's rules state that it is only permitted to use flags from the participating countries, from countries that have previously participated, or from countries that are full members of the UN. It is therefore not allowed to wave the Sami flag when Agnete goes on stage on 14 May in Stockholm. - Technically speaking, that is correct, as the Sami flag is not part of the UN or is represented in the Eurovision Song Contest. I understand that the question can arouse emotions as Agnete has Sami roots, says Paul Jordan, communications manager for the Eurovision Song Contest to Sameradion in Sweden When asked what might happen if the public shows up with a Sami flag during the competition, the communications manager says that it will be up to the doormen to decide. - Technically, it is not allowed according to the current rules. Right now I don't know what would have happened at the entrance. Technically, it can be confiscated, but I cannot guarantee that, says Jordan to Sameradion.

I could write several paragraphs about just how revolting it is that the Sami flag was even banned to begin with (they reverted it in 2016, after months of backlash), but the point I want to drive home right now is that there is nothing "apolitical" about the EBU's flag policy, or the way it is enforced.

Reminder again to BOYCOTT EUROVISION 🇵🇸

Don't watch, don't vote.

#from the river to the sea palestine will be free #eurovision #esc 2014 #boycott eurovision #also i just wanna quickly add that agnete wasn't the first sami artist at eurovision #she wasn't even the first sami artist to represent *norway* #(that was mattis hætta with 'sámiid ædnan') #so the fact that the flag was still banned... #also.. only allowing diaspora artist at esc to fly the flag of the country their representing? there's nothing 'apolitical' about that #the entire esc flag policy is like a microcosm of european racism

[eurovisionart]

🇳🇴 Sverre Kjellsberg & Mattis Hætta - Sámiid Ædnan

#Sverre Kjellsberg & Mattis Hætta #Sámiid Ædnan #norway esc #esc norway #norway eurovision #eurovision norway #esc 1980 #eurovision 1980 #esc #eurovision #Lapland #this was a really cool protest song

[aaknopf]

A multi-generational saga courses across the pages of Ædnan, by Sámi-Swedish author Linnea Axelsson, translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel. The verse epic follows an Indigenous Sámi family who have herded reindeer for generations, as the forces of colonialism and modern development of their ancestral lands threaten their culture and livelihood. The story is told by a small chorus of characters from the 1910s through the current day, and we become especially close to Lise, who left her Sámi family, following her brother Jon-Henrik, to be educated at a residential school for “Nomad” children. This excerpt from Chapter XII takes place in the early 1970s, along the Great Lule River Valley, where the state-owned Vattenfall company was developing hydroelectric resources, and Lise is graduating into a world unimaginable to her parents.

. .

The river climbed silently up the hills

as soon as Vattenfall whistled it came creeping:

–

Streamed backwards up its deep channel and drowned the earth

When the great Suorva Dam for the third time was to be regulated

–

Entreaty

shone from Mama’s eyes

–

She explained clearly to the Swedes 

that the fishing will suffer if the water rises

–

There was probably no one who understood what she was saying

– –

After the social studies lesson I went with the others to sit on the gymnasium floor

–

Almost all of Malmberget’s students had been dismissed from class

– To participate in the miners’ strike meeting

 –

Someone had heard that Olof Palme was coming

that he would travel all the way up here 

–

To the mining company’s and Vattenfall’s world the one that he himself had helped build

–

It is what he is guarding

It is all that he can see

–

The mine boss’s voice

flowed wildly above the crowded hall which was hot with bodies

–

His voice was so robust his conviction so intense

–

I glanced at Anne who was sitting beside me leaning against the wall bars

and she smiled back at me

–

Soon we would be leaving school too 

–

And could start working join the union

–

You took the job you wanted that’s all there was to it 

– 

Switchboard cleaner or cook

with the old folks at the Pioneer or the children in day care

– –

I spend the weekend up at Mama and Papa’s 

–

I stand with Jon-Henrik

 –

Watching the river flow murky across the slope

–

That brushy slope

where he and I used to go it’s underwater now

 –

How are our tracks ever to be heard Among the Swedes’ roads and power stations

–

It’s Jon-Henrik who says this he had also been drawn down to the dam

–

To work for Vattenfall as soon as school was done

 –

I’m surprised when he says

That he’d preferred to have taken up with the reindeer

–

Been elected into the Sámi community

And learned to guide that wandering gray soft ocean across the world of the fells

–

Just as the lot of us were once taught at the Nomad School that this is what the Sámi do

that this is how we all live

–

He laughs and says:

–

Who knows what the spring flood will bring with it

this drowned  earth may yet be fertile

More on this book and author:

Learn more about Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson.

Check out The Rumpus for a conversation between Linnea Axelsson and Susan Devan Harness about Axelsson's Sámi heritage and the decision to write Ædnan in verse. 

Click here to read Linnea Axelsson's op-ed piece for LitHub on Scandinavia’s hidden history of Indigenous oppression.

Visit our Tumblr to peruse poems, audio recordings, and broadsides in the Knopf poem-a-day series.

To share the poem-a-day experience with friends, pass along this link.

#AxelssonAudio #poetry #poem-a-day #knopf poetry #national poetry month #knopfpoetry #poem #Aednan #Linnea Axelsson

[because-its-eurovision]

Sápmi in Eurovision

Norway 1980 Sverre Kjelsberg & Mattis Hætta - Sámiid ædnan Sweden 2000 Roger Pontare - When Spirits Are Calling My Name Norway 2016 Agnete - Icebreaker  Norway 2019 KEiiNO - Spirit in the Sky   

#Lihkku Sámi Álbmotbeivviin! #Sámi National Day #yes I know Roger Pontare also represented Sweden in 1994 but that entry doesn't have Sámi influences like this one #if you're wondering why Agnete is here then she also competed in Sámi in MGP 2011 #makes me ashamed that Finland has only had one Sámi entry EVER in our national selctions #shout outs to Solju (UMK 2015) #Elin & The Woods (MGP 2017 & 2020) #and Jon Henrik Fjällgren (Melodifestivalen 2015 & 2017 & 2019 & 2023) #manne leam joiker stikk manne leam frijje #sámi #eurovision #norway #sweden #1980 #2000 #2016 #2019

[thateurosite]

🎤 Sámi National Day: The Sámi acts who graced the Eurovision stage

🎤 Today is Sámi National Day, the celebration of the first International Sámi Congress in Trondheim in 1917! To mark the occasion, we took a dive into the contributions Sámi people have made to #Eurovision and its associated shows.

Today is Sámi National Day, the celebration of the first international Sámi congress in Trondheim on February 6th 1917. To mark the occasion, I’ll be highlighting some of the amazing contributions Sámi people have made to Eurovision and its associated shows. Sverre Kjellsberg & Mattis Hætta – Sámiid ædnan (Norway 1980) Inspired by the autonomy movement of the Sámi people of Northern Norway,…

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#esc #eurovision #eurovision 2024 #finland #jon henrik #Jon Henrik Fjällgren feat. Arc North & Adam Woods #KEiiNO #Melfest #mello #Melodifestivalen #mgp #norway #sami #Sámi #Sweden #umk

[copperbadge]

SAM. I’m reading The Twelve Points of Caleb Canto and just got to the part about kulning/cows… was that by any chance inspired by Norway’s 1980 entry “Samiid Ædnan”??? I love the reference if it is one, and if not I cannot recommend it highly enough. The performance must be seen to be truly appreciated.

(Really enjoying the whole book so far, but am just internally shrieking about this in particular.)

Aw, what a catchy tune! Also it's....very early 80s, isn't it.

The bit about kulning was really just inspired by kulning videos, although Buck saying you could make a stage show from it did, in part, come from a much later performance -- it's a song from the 2021 Norway National final, so it never made it to Eurovision proper. I misremembered it as people being in cow costumes but it's....it's still a real wild ride.

#eurovision #shivadhverse

[residentraccoon]

Can you have a post about top 5 entries from Norway?

Okay, Norway has so many amazing songs that I really can't pick just 5. Even some of their lower placed songs such as Branderburger Tor were great! (0 points, really?)

Actually if you know my blog for quite a while you might probably know who will be my 1st. Or my 2nd or 3rd. (Hint 2 of them are winners and the other won the televote lol)

5. Silent storm (2014)

This performance is so powerful yet so mellow especially in the first part. Love how after the bridge it just violently hits me in the guts with emotions. So incredibly amazing, I really love this one.

4. Alle mine tankar (1993)

It has this melancholic, mysterious and even a bit eerie sound which I love. Sounds like the kind of song I'd fall asleep near the fireplace after a long tiring day in the winter.

3. Nocturne (1995)

Yeah, no surprises starting from here, this is just so magical and dreamy that I couldn't resist not putting it in this top. It's my go-to song when I'm feeling anxious, like I really don't know what to add more, beautiful instrumental, the lines in norwegian are so hauntingly wonderful, overall, a great esc winner in my opinion.

2. Spirit in the sky (2019)

Ah yes, the song that got me out of depression back in 2019. And still does. Like I probably said before, I can't get tired of this song. So upbeat and uplifting, and every line just speaks to my soul, yes, even the joik.

1. Fairytale (2009)

You probably expected this, just imagine my reaction when I found out in 2018 (aka when I was still a new fan) that Rybak, whose song that year was one of my favorites (please don't judge) was in fact an esc winner. I literally went bonkers for this and thought dude bro this is even better than thywas hello?? And became my jam since. 😌

Honorable mentions: Voi voi (1960), Oliver (1979), Samiid Ædnan (1980), La det swinge (1985), Romeo (1986), For vår jord (1988), Branderburger tor (1990), Visjoner (1992), Evighet (1996), In my dreams (2005), Alvedansen (2006), Hold on, be strong (2008), I feed you my love (2013), A monster like me (2015), That's how you write a song (2018), Attention (2020), Fallen Angel (2021), Give that wolf a banana (2022)

#my inbox

[mokshagnosis]

"Sámiid Ædnan" - Norwegian-Sami Folk Song

#youtube #sami #norway #norwegian #folk #song #music #samiid aednan

[underthepile]

Am I that dumb

that I can’t manage

to keep my own

language alive

-

I just let it slip away

be driven from my children

—Linnea Axelsson, Ædnan

#linnea axelsson #translation #aednan #Ædnan

[thegirlwiththelantern]

2024 Poetry & Novels-in-Verse

It’s wonderful to see so many poets whose work I love have releases this year. And I’m very hopeful that other collections and novels on this list become artists I love too. Ædnan: An Epic by Linnea Axelsson, trans. Saskia Vogel | 25 / 01 / 24 – Pushkin Press In Northern Sámi, the word Ædnan means the land, the ground, the earth. In this majestic verse novel, Linnea Axelsson chronicles the…

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#2024 #Books #Canongate #Ecco #Faber & Faber #Graywolf Press #HarperTeen #Invisible Publishing #Knopf #Litmus Press #McLelland & Stewart #Novels-in-Verse #Picador #Poetry #Polygon #Pushkin Press #releases #Seagull Books #Short Books #Titan Books #Translation #Yale University Press

[kammartinez]

#books #writing #language #translation #aednan #linnea axelsson

[kamreadsandrecs]

#books #writing #language #translation #saskia vogel #aednan #linnea axelsson

[paulsemel]

For many people, "epic poem" means epic story told in verse; think "The Odyssey." But Linnea Axelsson's epic poem "Ædnan: An Epic" is a real world story with political and social ramifications, as I learned when we did this exclusive interview. https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-aednan-an-epic-author-linnea-axelsson/ 📖🇸🇪

#LinneaAxelsson #LinneaAxelssonInterview #LinneaAxelssonÆdnanAnEpic #LinneaAxelssonÆdnanAnEpicInterview #LinneaAxelssonÆdnan #LinneaAxelssonÆdnanInterview #LinneaAxelssonAednanAnEpic #LinneaAxelssonAednanAnEpicInterview #LinneaAxelssonAednan #LinneaAxelssonAednanInterview #Books #Reading #AuthorInterview #AuthorInterviews #Poems #Poetry #EpicPoetry #EpicPoems

[hiphuman2020]

Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson: “Crystalline prose that reads like poetry and myth at once.”

Beautiful, unique and tragic, I've never read a story quite like Ædnan and I cannot stop thinking about it.

Ædnan is a lyrical story of the Sámi people. It’s told by five generations of the same family covering a hundred years of their tragic history, their losing struggle to continue their nomadic lifestyle. In Northern Sámi, the word Ædnan means the land, the earth, and my mother. Axelsson’s family epic begins in the early spring of 1913 with Ber-Joná expressing his love for their rangeland that runs…

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#Indigenous History #Lapp Administration #Lyrical Verse #Sámi Peoples #Sweden

[residentraccoon]

Um, if the Eurovision asks are still open, would you mind sharing your opinion on Visionary Dream and Sámid Ædnan?

Btw I'm Charlie, if you still remember 😄

Eurovision asks are still open and yes, you can send me any song any time if you want my opinion lol!

Visionary Dream - I don't think I have more to elaborate, this is definitely my favorite georgian entry by far. Just from their debut you can see Georgia's affinity for bringing different styles and sounds. I especially love all about the instrumental and the ethnic touches, the energy, her vocals, it's something new and refreshing even if it was released 15 years ago, yet it still sounds modern after so many years.

Sámiid Ædnan - The predecessor of my absolute fave Spirit in the sky, and it's no surprise that I like it. The joik is just perfect and I demand more joik in this contest. And this was placed waaay too low. Geez, I was surprised to see how Norway didn't do so well back in the day, in the recent years they almost always get great results.

#yes I remember I missed you! #my inbox