Kulning - The Ancient Scandinavian Herding Calls 

Swedish here! When I was a kid, me and my sisters went playing in the woods a lot. Mom would let us know when it was time to come home or check in with kulning, and it is one of my favourite memories of growing up. I learned how to do it from her and it is such a nice feeling, like screaming your feelings out but without hurting your voice!

Do everything to not let this art form die. Do everything to keep it alive. Please. It is so beautiful.

82 year old??? She doesn't even look 60, let alone over 80!!! Good gracious that's impressive! And all that without running water or electricity! Goes to show!

my grandfather taught me how to sing the cows home, when I was a child . I use the same song to call my own cows now, and my children and grand children sing the same cow call. I wonder if this song is from our Scandinavian heritage? And if it has changed much through the generations before us?

I am Asian. I love learning about this part of Swedish culture. Yes it is hypnotic and vibrates your soul. I cannot explain why tears were running down my face at the sound of her voice. Must be happiness. Thank you for this video.

As a Swede it's sad that we don't learn about our own history in school. Sad that what we learn is handpicked, we don't learn about where we came from or what even we've done wrong in the world.

I live off of forest land, so I taught my horses to come in with this technique years ago. I will say twice I've had horses on the forest and twice they've come to me with my chant. It's easy to teach and very useful for people in my situation.b

It´s a custom rarely in actual herdsmanship use now adays. Mostly it is a curiosity, for tourism or for having like a "living museum". But I once happened to see it practised in everyday herdsmanship only ten years ago, by chance! I was sitting, for reasons I can´t remember, just enjoying the view at a location. It was summer and green and lovely. I saw an old man walking on a dirt road a little ways away from me. He walked all the way to a fence and opened the gate. Then he started "sort of" making this kulning. It wasn´t beautiful and arty like here, but he song-called "cows cows cows COME" over and over. And sure enough, his herd came trotting! A couple of them were literally running and prancing with joy! When they arrived, he simply turned and started walking, and they all followed suit behind him, it was a joy to see their connection. This was in the south-west part of the country (Halland, Marks kommun)

My little Norwegian mothers voice would carry. Our nearest neighbor a mile away would hear her.

im not scandinavian nor i could hit high notes but im planning to move to northern sweden and do my best to be able to do kulning because i ALWAYS wanted to live like how they wanted

It’s scary how easily this brings tears to my eyes. It’s gotta be the frequencies

My Swedish born grandmother told how she would herd cattle in the mountains outside of Bingsjo, Dalarna Province during the summer, which is located near Leksand. I wish she had sung her Kulning call for us. It was a tradition my Father carried on later on his neighboring farm; he would call out "Come Boss, Come Boss" which would bring the 2 milk cows and assorted feeder cattle to the feed yard from the pasture Never thought much about this until I watched the video. A fine tradition.

I once made that noise when a hammer slipped and hit me you know where. Jokes aside this is a haunting talent.

I wish i was born in Sweden. I love the language, the traditions, the nature, the history, aurora borealis. It's so beautiful, i love everything ❤

Thank you for the video 🙏🏻 I noticed that my natural way of singing is similar to Kulning, so when I found a video of Swedish RU-vidr Jonna Jinton displaying her kulning skills, I decided to cultivate them. I hope I will be able to receive some proper lessons from a native kulning teacher someday 😁

Her voice is so amazing! I got goosebumps

I’ve always had long high pitched tones I sing deep from in my chest, melodically. And they seem to know their name.

This doesn't just work on cows. When my cats (I have six, eek) get too rambunctious or I need to find one that's hiding out, I put on one of the kulning videos and they chill out almost immediately or come out of hiding at least!

I love the juxtaposition of the traditional farmers outfit and the tattoo sleeves.

i was supposed to go to that concert but at that time i was too much of an introvert :(( i used to live in Leksand, and our culture is still very present in the town's decoration and choice of art etc, now i live in a more ancient village south where true Dalculture is on its last legs! and ofc im determined to dedicate as much of my life as i possiblt can to bring back what's very soon to be forgotten...

In Brazil there is something quite similar, in the northeast, vaqueiros (the brazilian cowboys from the caatinga) use a type of singing to guide the cattle, called "Aboio" and "Toada", but it's origin came from Arab peasants that use this singing to guide theur animals.

Yes Ma'am! Hit that note! Amazing voice! Reminds me of the origins of Birgit Nilsson!

@1:00 That lady is 82? I guess living a peaceful (but challenging and stimulating) life will do!

I just realized this is what my coworker does to me when she gets into work. She calls my name in a similar manner 😂.

Beautiful landscape and herding calls create a feeling of ancient times.

I love these ethnomusicology videos!

I've used it to call my dog in lol. My voice doesnt carry if I dont

I've heard plenty of kulning from ideas on here but I always fall asleep to it,I wish I could travel to hear it where it began 🎧🎶🥰🎶🎧

My ancestors are Swedish and I've never heard of this!! Its lovely!

I'm imagining my neighbors calling to see if I'm ok if they heard me do that. I know the dogs would go nuts. I love it though.

If I had a farm, which would be lovely at some point in my life, I would most definitely use Kulning. It may not be my history, but it is beautiful and sounds better than our American calls.

82 wow you look fabulous!! Thank you for the education!!

Insane notes!

love these reports, thank you.

Outstanding, great 💖🇳🇵

Beautiful

I discovered it through Jonna Jinton. 🥰

I never knew about this just 10 minutes ago. It’s fascinating. Want to learn more and more about it. With love from Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤ 🇸🇪

This is like watching a benevolent version of Midsommar😊.

Very interesting

Please keep old traditions alive!

Jennie looks so much like Sister Michael from Derry Girls. I was waiting for the Sass.lol

Almost any noise, sounds work for most animal's,.cats, pigs, horses some you just need to whistle..Animals are very smart..Even with humming noises..bells even..

I love those beautiful black and white cows! I've never seen them before...I'm from Wisconsin

Jonna jinton 💓

Cheers 🍻🥂🍻 to good traditions.

Can you imagine someone like Birgit Nilsson handling the cows?

Living like this, in that place must be the closest thing to Haven on this side of your last breath.

I hearded in wild roe deer once using this method.

Haría lo que fuera por pasar unos días en esa granja

In old times cattle was grazing in the woods. Fences was built to keep cattle out of the fields to protect the crops.

"The hypnotic sounds of cooming"

I milk cows and it's true, cow loves high pitched voice calls. I always call in a similar way.

I would love to go to Sweden and try their beef and sausage and Swedish Meatballs.

I'm the music public 😂😂😂😂😂

now this is slightly closer to the real deal, before tourism set in and it became a tourist job

I love these songs a lot and I' try to sing them but all of them sound so coloratura soprano, which I can not reach, is there a way to sing Kulning in alt or mezzo? I know that wouldn't be that cool, but still...

My husband is Swedish but he doesn’t know anything about his heritage. He makes these random noises and he sounds like this 😂😂😂 idk if that’s a hood or bad thing but it’s great

The cows listen better than my dog. May be I should start singing

When kulning, are they saying words or is it just kinda.... sounds?

Over Switzerland they have yodeling

Where can i learn to do this?

She is a goddess

Кошка подбежала, смотрит на меня мяукает чего то)

I would worry about what might turn up!

I think the cows react to that Sound the same way cats do: they think the one that cares for them is in Danger.

82 years old???? Wow.....

3:27 Cranberries. Followed by Good King Wenceslas.

It's like yodelling in Germany.

Kulning vs the Mosque call... tough choice

There should be a musical genre evolved from killing but a mix with other instruments that isn’t simply yodeling

Dalarna, 4 hours from Stockholm, yeah dude, good luck with that.

Do the men also do the kulning

Ja

Swedish herding calls to herd people :)

Women in my city do the same thing when they find a good Chinese buffet. 😋

Kulning hasn't just been used in Sweden, and I find it slightly disheartening how many videos or texts about kulning from international sources imply that it's only a Swedish thing. In fact, I'm pretty sure kulning (or "lokk" as we call it in Norwegian) has actually been used more in Norway than in Sweden since we have more of a mountainous landscape while Sweden is more flat, and this vocal technique is most useful when it can utilise the echo from the mountains. Still, some talented women in this video, I just think the narration was kind of meh.

Governments dont like artists by and large. They work outside normal industrial work and have their own supporters and tend to say lots of common sense things in their songs, painting and other artistic work! They imagine somehow that it will flourish without assistance and then are sorry when it becomes extinct.

I'm sorry.... That lady is 82??? You could tell me she was 60 and I'd think you were guessing too high.

KOM KYRA!

Many times Women’s crafts are ignored. We hear much more about men yodeling

Söt röst

Yeah' cull the herd.,

Hindi Hindi

Very bad. no good

Not a fan of this one tbh. Makes me ubcinfortable the singing.

Credability, blown. Tattoos, are a dead giveaway. Is nothing sacred?

is that a man or a woman doing the call...eh transgender?

That’s a real life siren