Because being pedantic is fun when not taken too seriously
I looked and the hardanger fiddle appeared more like 1651, while the Vikings were back before 1100
Fins talk about new folk music and old, with the “new” stuff being what the Vikings came up with
The fiddle spread through Europe 1500s+ with court dances maybe filtering out and up and down the social ladder
(That’s a battle I’d like to see #FolkMusic experts fight)
(Industrial-age 🪗 interloper)
