Storsjöyran
storsjöyran yran literal meaning great lake giddy festival annual swedish musical event going back early sixty festival started honor ancient cando spirit people jämtland show rest sweden although region sparsely populated people zest courage knowledge create festival international size standard goal reached gathering around visitor every year secondbiggest festival sweden biggest city festival sweden festival held middle östersund last weekend july although event start weekend opening krogstråket regional bar restaurant gather near lake jämtland selfproclaimed republic started people behind festival president ewert ljusberg precisely midnight saturday appears front people town square deliver annual speech topic freedom humanity solidarity though speech usually contains antiswedish government antieu propaganda well president entrance usually quite spectacular rode seventon elephant entered huge air balloon landed house roof square surfed crowd stage speech crowd sings jamtlandic anthem så tåga vi tillsammans bort known jamtlandic mæ går på stigom å leit os opp though swedish original version song one thats usually sung province jamtland independent selfgoverning region norwegian authority seized control conquest jamtland still remained semiautonomous status within norway possession overseas late th century several war regional conflict ceded sweden denmarknorway however period today people jämtland claimed strong independence southern part sweden taken deep pride culture cuisine dialect dä glöm fäll int jamska published margareta persson red ekerwald carlgöran jämtarnas historia jengel förlag ab isbn storsjöyranse yrantv – storsjöyran webtv