A set of Irish reels played by YR.
(Mikkel Andersen (fiddle)
Niss Stricker (Guitar)

Limerick Lasses - Foxhunters (reels)

YR  plays traditional irish music, but also plays tunes from other european areas, and own compositions
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Mikkel Andersen plays fiddle/Bodhran

Niss Stricker plays Guitar(DADGAD), and Harp.

The name 'YR' is the last rune in the old scandinavian rune alfabeth, also known as 'Furthark'. It has puzzled many academics what the mening of the rune and its konnotations with death and ressurection is. But its quite simple and has branches to celtic mythology, which we shared many thousand years ago. Yr means 'yew' and is wellknown in celtic mythology to be associated with druids and the practice of divination and rituals. At the same time it was used to poison arrows, today the same very toxic juice from the tree is used to cure i.ex. cancer, and other autoimmune diseases  under the name  'Taxol'.
In a more deeper sense the yew is associated with the under world and was probably considered very holy because its evergreen. An old runic peoms also decribe this about the rune YR:

 'ᛦ Ýr er vetrgrønstr viða;
vænt er, er brennr, at sviða'

'Yew is the greenest of trees in winter;
it is wont to crackle when it burns.

It  became the well known sign for peace in the 1960'ies.  This on the contrary remains a modern riddle, since the connotation is death, and probably associated with ressurrection from the underworld..

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