#CELTIC STRING INSTRUMENTS UPDATE#

Leszek Gardela, researcher and author at The National Museum of Denmark.īelow the picture is a few quotes on his current opinions on the Oseberg Lur/Tube. At one end of the tube was a trumpet-shaped extension. 80 cm long, straight piece of hazelnut, which was split, hollowed out and then assembled with strips of ash. When excavating a well from the Viking era in Herning, in 1996, what was probably a real Wooden Lur was found. It is very faintly tapered with a sound piece for wind instruments, composed of a 107 cm long unknown piece of wood. The first find in the Nordic region registered as a wooden Lur is from a coffin in a burial chamber in Oseberg, Norway. (on the left two photos: Oseberg Lur, on the right: Oseberg reconstruction/replica and Danish Iron age Lur) TV2 nyheder (With Sarah Qvistgaard, Archeologist and Morten Søvsø, Museum inspector) 2.

#CELTIC STRING INSTRUMENTS UPDATE#

I’ll post an update when new information is available! I got in touch with Søren Sindbæk, a professor of medieval archeology at Aarhus University and got the following update: (late iron-age/early Viking period) It is currently in conservation. The Ribe Lyre was excavated in the old Viking village in Ribe, Denmark in 2018, and is dated to around the year 720. Lyre (Denmark’s oldest stringed instrument found in Ribe) That is not quite true, and after some of my latest research, I decided to create this page with some of the important findings and perhaps lesser-known facts about these interesting Scandinavian instruments.

I occasionally receive messages or read comments online from people mentioning that we know nothing about Viking-age instruments. About the Scandinavian Viking-age instruments used in my music.

Celtic string instruments