Would Anyone Know a Norwegian Song that Sounds Like, “Baby Bana Mama kishakana”?

Gibson A Campbell wrote asking for help with a Norwegian Lullaby. Here's his email: “I found your website and was hoping you could help. My great grandmother was Norwegian and there is a lullaby that my family always sang. Now that I have a baby daughter of my own I have been searching for [...]

Kofteluftingdag in Norway – Hang out Your Wool Clothes

“Yesterday was ‘kofteluftingdag' in Norway. It means that we hang our knitted sweaters and coats out so they can get some air. A fun tradition, here are some of mine. I live in Denmark but come from Norway.”-Tone Coucheron Rosenfors Thanks for sharing Tone! I love your [...]

Can Anyone Help with a Norwegian Milk Truck Song?

Karen Larson wrote asking for help with a Norwegian children's song. Here's her email: I can only remember the second verse of a song, not the first... It's about a milk truck on a bumpy road. You hold the child on your knee and when the truck goes up your knee goes up. When the

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Can Anyone Help with a Norwegian Song with the Line, “They call me Ula just the same”?

Lori wrote asking for help with a song her Norwegian father used to sing to her in English. We're not sure if the song was originally in English or Norwegian. Here's her email... I don't know the name of this Norwegian song but it goes something like this: I went to New York to find [...]

Does Anyone Know a Norwegian Song/Rhyme called “Ree Dee Dunkin”?

Renee Dickens wrote to us asking for help with a childhood song: “My grandmother used to sing a Norwegian song or rhyme she called ‘Ree Dee Dunkin'. No one in our family can find anything about it. It would be really great to have the actual song with all the words. Your help would [...]

Christmas Countdown – Santa Lucia in Scandinavia & Italy

In Scandinavia, there's a beautiful celebration in December called Santa Lucia.  The celebration started in part of Sweden in the 18th century. It slowly spread to the rest of the country in the 19th century and to most of Scandinavia in the 20th century. Traditionally, to celebrate Santa [...]

Best-known Norwegian Lullabies and Kids Songs

I asked Siri Randem from the Norwegian language music site Barnesanger about the most popular kids songs and lullabies in Norway. This was her response: Some people sing B, b lille lam (a children's song) or Mikkel Rev (similar). Everyone in Norway has heard these two in childhood. They are not [...]

Counting-out Rhyme called Zinty Tinty

Rhiannon Daymond-King sent me a counting-out rhyme called "Zinty Tinty" with this note: "I was taught a counting rhyme by my father, who said it came from his mother. Her mother was Swedish, so he thought it was in Swedish (or possibly Norwegian given that the part of the country [...]

Learn 40 Languages for Free on the Internet

Open Culture has a page of free language learning links covering 40 languages. Here are some of the languages you can find links for... Arabic, English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, [...]