{"id":"MUS2026-197","label":"Madla snorlebein","people_or_site":"Madla, Stavanger, Rogaland — maker Tormod Ropeid of Hafrsfjord","country_current":"Norway","historic_region":"Rogaland / Stavanger","macroregion":"Europe / Scandinavia","local_name":"snorlebein","source_term":"","source_language":"Norwegian","object_description":"A pig's foot-bone with a single through-hole and a long cord; whirled in the air, bone and cord together, to make a humming roar ('brummelyd').","function_summary":"Sound-making toy: the bone is spun on its cord in the air to produce a hum.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"norsk_folkemuseum_nf_1964_0080","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/011023194231","page_or_plate":"Norsk Folkemuseum record NF.1964-0080","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Madla district, Stavanger — locality-exact record.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A pig's foot-bone is the whole instrument here. At Madla on the Hafrsfjord, Tormod Ropeid bored a hole through the knuckle, knotted in a long cord, and whirled bone and string round in the air until they gave their humming roar — the snorlebein, the cord-bone, a farmyard cousin of the carved blades of other latitudes, spun for nothing more than the pleasure of the sound.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"snorlebein — 'cord-bone'; the whirled bone hums (brumme) on its long thread.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Norsk Folkemuseum NF.1964-0080, made by Tormod Ropeid of Hafrsfjord; Reidar Sevåg, Det gjallar og det læt (Oslo, 1973), pp. 20-21","url":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/011023194231","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013023932/https://digitaltmuseum.org/011023194231"}],"source_citations":"Norsk Folkemuseum NF.1964-0080, made by Tormod Ropeid of Hafrsfjord; Reidar Sevåg, Det gjallar og det læt (Oslo, 1973), pp. 20-21","source_display":"Norsk Folkemuseum NF.1964-0080, made by Tormod Ropeid of Hafrsfjord; Reidar Sevåg, Det gjallar og det læt (Oslo, 1973), pp. 20-21","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A pig's foot-bone with a single through-hole and a long cord; whirled in the air, bone and cord together, to make a humming roar ('brummelyd').","function_display":"Sound-making toy: the bone is spun on its cord in the air to produce a hum.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"madla","display_name":"Madla snorlebein","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-197_nf_1964_0080_v1.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-197_nf_1964_0080_v1_thumb.jpg","credit":"Norsk Folkemuseum, NF.1964-0080","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/011023194232","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Madla snorlebein — pig's foot-bone on its long cord.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-197_nf_1964_0080_v2.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-197_nf_1964_0080_v2_thumb.jpg","alt":"Second view of the small tan bone, with rounded joint projections and a long cord looped over one end and coiled beside it.","credit":"Norsk Folkemuseum, NF.1964-0080","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/011023194231","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Second view of the bone, hole and knot."}]},"slug":"mus2026-197-madla-stavanger-rogaland-maker-tormod-ropeid-of-hafrsfjord"}