Nordic Feast

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Here's a solo accordion cover of Nordic Feast by Korpiklaani. Many people are ignorant of this song's origin and assume that it is simply an evocation of, well, a Nordic feast. Being that it has no lyrics and the listener is given nothing more than the title to guide them, this misconception is certainly understandable. But knowledge of the story behind the song has greatly contributed to the richness of my appreciation for it, and I hope you too will benefit from the following tale. I have a friend, Michael Korpi, who has a worrying tendency to vanish, without warning or provocation, for long periods of time. He comes back weeks, often months later, spewing wild and fanciful tales which elicit a suspicious look from even the most credulous simpleton. Upon one such homecoming, several years ago, he was filling me with another batch of ridiculous stories, and even endeavored to convince me that he was now a Scandinavian folk legend. This claim was met with well-practiced skepticism, and, for the moment, he let it go. A few months later, however, he called me up, saying he had something to show me. I went over, and he handed me Terveskanto, Korpiklaani's then newly-released album. "These songs are all about me. Korpiklaani-- clan of the Korpi. Get it?" I scoffed, but took the CD home nonetheless and listened attentively. By the time it was over, I was convinced. Everything cohered perfectly with the stories he had told me months before the album came out. It could not be ...