Erik Axel Wessberg is an experienced musician and lecturer in music theory, music history and music understanding. He has built his six-stringed lyre based on knowledge from several lyre fragments from Sutton Hoo, Oberflacht and Birka. Erik Axel will show in his lecture which musical possibilities such a six-stringed lyre has when one attempts to recreate sounds of the Viking age. Further knowledge can be derived from various bone flutes and horn pipes. Some melodies and melody fragments fragments are available from early medieval Europe, and altogether this can give ideas about what music might have sounded in early Scandinavia.
"The musicians of this age did not, however, simply reproduce tunes. They improvised and made variations, as indeed we do today. If we fail to recreate a way of playing that includes improvisation, the old instruments will never be brought to life." (quoted from the booklet of the CD "Drømte mig en drøm" by Erik Axel Wessberg 1996, p.15)