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Springar

type of dance

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ6979081 ↗
Source-derived summary

The springar is a Norwegian couple's folk dance with an uneven 34 rhythm, traditionally danced by a man and a woman. The man is given more opportunity to improvise his moves.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Springar” as type of dance. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Springar, type and dance.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 31-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Springar, type and dance providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Springar”, the useful work is to connect “type of dance” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6979081. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Springar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.