page_title: Prästens lilla kråka
hierarchical_section_title: Prästens lilla kråka
caption_attribution_description: English: Midsummer celebrations at Årsnäs, which was started in 1963 as an intentional community on the west coast of Sweden, near Kode. The ownership of the 15 houses has since passed on through generations among the founding families. The community celebrates Midsummer yearly, starting by dances around the Maypole in the early afternoon, followed by the houses competing in games with different tasks each year, but often including e.g. nail hammering, log balancing, and darts. In the evening there is a dinner at the dance floor by the meadow including the year's first potatoes, soused herring and pickled herring, chives, sour cream, the first strawberries of the season, as well as beer and snaps for the grown-ups. All these images are scanned diafilms originally taken by Karin Aasma and Felix Aasma.
context_page_description: Prästens lilla kråka is a Swedish singing game, now also a children's song, which is used when dancing around the Christmas tree and the Midsummer pole. There are several versions of whose little crow it is, for example Mormors, Mosters, Prostens and so on. However, prästens is the most common.
  When dancing around the Christmas tree or the midsummer pole the ring of people is moving inwards and outwards, before being split up and finally throwing themselves on the floor or grass.
  When sung with a child in the knee, the child is rocked in one direction, and the person singing it moves in the other direction and when the lyrics come to "slank han/hon ned i diket" the singer removes his thigh to make the child feel it will fall down. However, it's up to the person singing it to ensure that the child doesn't fall down to the floor.
context_section_description: Prästens lilla kråka is a Swedish singing game, now also a children's song, which is used when dancing around the Christmas tree and the Midsummer pole. There are several versions of whose little crow it is, for example Mormors ("grandmother's"), Mosters ("Aunt's"), Prostens (the provost's) and so on. However, prästens (the priest's) is the most common.
  When dancing around the Christmas tree or the midsummer pole the ring of people is moving inwards and outwards, before being split up and finally throwing themselves on the floor or grass.
  When sung with a child in the knee, the child is rocked in one direction, and the person singing it moves in the other direction and when the lyrics come to "slank han/hon ned i diket" the singer removes his thigh to make the child feel it will fall down. However, it's up to the person singing it to ensure that the child doesn't fall down to the floor.
caption: Midsummer dance to prästens lilla kråka in Årsnäs in Sweden in 1969. The participants are about to throw themselves towards the midsummer pole.
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