The legend of the tune : The story is linked to a wedding in Hovet in Hol in 1724.Two young boys, Levor Person Haga and Ådne Knutson Sindrol, strove and then ended up fighting.Levord were killed, while Ådne, under pain of death, fled over the mountains to Numedal. The incident is cited in court documents from Al . The tune , which is tied to the story, derived allegedly from toast master of the feast, which was on its way down to the cellar to fetch a beer to whoever wins the fight. While he was down there, he saw a man sitting on the beer barrel with a fiddle and play a tune he had not heard before.The man held his fiddle the opposite way, with the fiddle neck against his chest and hit the beat on the barrel with a horse hoof instead of his left foot.It was clear that this was the devil.The toastmaster ran up and found that one of the fighters lay dead in the yard.Therefore the name Fanitullen (The Devil's Tune)
Dette er uten tvil av de mest fengende fiolin sangene jeg vet av. Var så heldig å få høre vår nåværende norges mester i fiolin, Andreas, spille den forrige lørdag. Det var en spesiell opplevelse i mørk sal.
Helga Brennelien og du er i slekt med en etterkommer av en som var tilstede i Hovet da disse hendelsene fant sted, Helga;-) Torkjell Villand er min stamfar på farssiden:-)
Ola Fauske tror jeg han heter, han som taler, det står oppført to navn til på hele albumet, Birger Liahagen og Knut Fausko. Sistnevnte er hardingfele-spelmann og Birger spiller trekkspill, uvist om han også spiller fele.
