Lapp-Nils (Nils Jonsson) (8 May 1804 – 18 April 1870) was a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used b ...

and

Sami Acronyms * SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft * Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company * South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise net ...

musician living in

Offerdal Offerdal is a parish (so called ''socken'') and former municipality (pop. 2,100) in Krokom Municipality, Jämtland in the middle of Sweden. The seat of the former municipality Offerdal, Änge, is situated 50 kilometres northwest of Östersund, t ...

, Jämtland, Sweden. He was a

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

ist and composer of

Swedish folk music Swedish folk music is a musical genre, genre of music based largely on folkloristics, folkloric collection work that began in the early 19th century in Sweden. The primary musical instrument, instrument of Swedish folk music is the fiddle. Another ...

(

Polska Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the s ...

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A polska by Lapp-Nils
played by Rickard Näslin and

Göran Andersson Göran Andersson (born 14 February 1956) is a sailor from Sweden, who represented his country at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Tallinn, as crew member in the Soling The Soling is an open keelboat that holds the World Sailing " International ...

Another polska by Lapp-NilsThe Lapp-Nils Memorial in Offerdal

References

* En bok om Offerdal, part 3 (1964). {{authority control Swedish composers Swedish male composers Swedish Sámi musicians Swedish fiddlers Male violinists Swedish Sámi people Nordic folk musicians Fiddlers from Sweden