Notes from Viktoria Ahlman:
Björnlåten is from the village Marsvik, Vilhelmina. Vilhelmina is the northwest county in Sweden.
I talked to the woman, Siv Burman who collected this tune in the 80s and when we talked about the name of the tune, Björnlåten which means “the bear tune”, she said it’s probably got the name cause the music reminds you of a bear coming through the woods. There are definitely bear around Marsvik that could have inspired the fiddlers!