langeleikn.
/ˈlaŋəlʌɪk/ An early Norwegian stringed instrument, resembling the zither.
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1907 Westm. Gaz. 10/1 Ancient music of the Vikings was played..on the ‘langleik’, the crude guitar of the Norsemen, by an aged minstrel..who is a direct descendant of King Harald Haarfager.
1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 839/2 Norway possesses several distinctive instruments. The Langleik.., used until near the end of the eighteenth century, was a sort of developed monochord.
1961 A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages 210 A tuning given by Panum for the slightly more advanced Norwegian langeleik.
1970 Daily Tel. 13 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 47 The fjord-loving fiddle is the offspring of a local zither-like instrument called the langeleik, whose strings were struck with a plectrum.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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