Näverlur
Swedish birch bark Näverlur. This horn was typically made and used in Scandinavia to lure moose while hunting, to communicate in the mountain areas with others, and to welcome people to celebrations.
Young girls who spent the summer in the mountains with the cows and goats each would have a distinctive “call” used at day’s end to let other young girls know they were okay. The Näverlur was a special emergency universal sound that called for help.
Rune Selén was Sweden’s best-known näverlur manufacturer. He manufactured more than 11,000 näverlurar between 1959 and 2005 when he retired because of a dust allergy. He died on October 28, 2011.
The oldest recovered näverlur in Sweden dates back to the 10th century, and resembles earlier bronze trumpets.
