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I he Three-Max Polska ik Which the Three Cavaliers Daxce with Six Ladies 
(from polonaise) may have come from Poland, the polska itself has 
been danced at Swedish weddings in very early times. It was cus¬ 
tomary, after the wedding feast, to “dance the crown off the bride,” 
which was done as follows: The minister would engage the bride for 
a polska and hand her to the bridegroom, who danced once around the 
room with her and then turned her over to the most honored guest, 
who in his turn handed her to the next in rank, and so on, until she 
had danced with all the men present. Variations of this have some¬ 
times been found, where the onlookers formed a ring around the danc¬ 
ing pair making a combination of ring-game and polska. 
A polska in four-eighths measure which is deeply rooted in Swed¬ 
ish tradition is the hambo J of which there are many varieties with num- 
erous different figures, some of the most common being the Josseharad 
polska, the Ostgota polska, the Frykdaling polska, and the popular 
Three-man polska, so-called because it is danced by three men with 
six girls. Particularly rich and varied are the Dal dance, in a minor 
key, with thirteen figures, and the gracefully roguish Vingaker dance 
in which every man dances with two girls. In the latter, the motif, 
which is carried out with considerable dramatic power, is that of a 
youth in the torment of choosing between two women. Many of the 
Swedish dances have, like this, a narrative subject. 
Considerable strength and agility is required for the hailing, 
originally imported from Norway, where it is a solo dance, but de¬ 
veloped in Varmland as a dance for two men. The oxen dance was 
