Sjur Helgeland was a Norwegian hardingfele

Hardingfele

A Hardanger fiddle is a traditional stringed instrument used originally to play the music of Norway. In modern designs, the instruments are very similar to the violin, though with eight or nine strings and thinner wood...

 fiddler and composer from Voss

Voss

is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Voss. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen....

. Among his best known air

Air (music)

Air , a variant of the musical song form, is the name of various song-like vocal or instrumental compositions.-English lute ayres:...

s is "Budeiene på Vikafjell", composed over the different moods of three dairymaid

Dairy farming

Dairy farming is a class of agricultural, or an animal husbandry, enterprise, for long-term production of milk, usually from dairy cows but also from goats and sheep, which may be either processed on-site or transported to a dairy factory for processing and eventual retail sale.Most dairy farms...

s, the sorrow, joy and happiness, combined with cattle call, low

Cattle

Cattle are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos primigenius...

s, wind and bird singing. He was the winner of the first national folk music contest Landskappleiken, in 1896. A stone memorial was raised in 1958.