Hey guys, it’s Shauna. I just came back from a fascinating tour at the musical instrument museum in Trondheim and I picked up a little toy, so I’ll show you guys the toy if I can figure out how to hold the camera and do it because it’s awesome. But, I have a question for you guys, and maybe somebody will know the answer. If not, I’m sure I will be Googling after this video. My question is, Edward Grieg, the guy who wrote Hall of the Mountain King, who is the Mountain King, and is he a troll king, or what’s going on? Now that I’ve been here in the Nordic, Scandinavian countries, trolls are big, elves are big, fairies are big. For example, in Iceland, 5% of the population, according to one of the tour guides, 5% of the population believes in Christianity, but 80% of the population believes, like absolutely 100% believes in trolls and fairies. I’m really kind of wondering if the Mountain King is a Troll King.

Anyway, so, we’re going to try an interesting little experiment. Let me see if I can get this set up here without knocking you guys over here. I have something really fun to show you. I picked it up at the music museum. Let’s see if this is it. I think it’s this one. Hold on guys, I want to show you something really, really cool. Let’s see if we can do this. OK, if I knock you over, I’m really sorry, I apologize in advance. I think you guys are good. I think you’re st able right there. OK, do you see this little box? This is actually a music box, so I’m hoping you guys will be able to hear this when I play this, but check it out.

So, I don’t know if many of you recognize that, but that is of course from the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg, from 1843 through 1907. He is considered the foremost Nordic composer throughout history and his music has become the very symbol of Norwegian musical language according to the box. This is in the Hall of the Mountain King and is from the Incidental Music to Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen first performed in 1876. I hope you guys enjoyed. I’m getting a huge, huge kick out of this little box. Random side tangent, my mom gave me one of these little things when I was a little kid, so I’m pretty sure that’s why I’m in love with the little box. I hope you guys are having a great day and I’ll try and post some pictures and stuff, and hopefully you guys saw at least the first bit of the video before we got cut off in the music museum, so, I’ll talk to you guys later. Have a great day, bye.