Sámiid ædnan
There are no actual Sami words in the yoik chorus – instead, the syllables "lo" and "la" are simply repeated, giving rise to another popular title for the song, "Låla".Mention is also made of the traditional music of the region, the yoik, which is described as being "stronger than gunpowder" in the lyrics.The line framførr tinget der dem satt, hørtes joiken dag og natt ("in front of the parliament where they sat, the yoik was heard day and night"), refers to a hunger strike by Sami activists in front of the Norwegian parliament building in October 1979 in connection with the Alta controversy, where Mattis Hætta first performed the yoik that constituted the song's chorus.[3] It describes the Sami world as coming like a "puff of wind from the north", before it turned into a "storm"."[4] The song was performed eleventh on the night, following Finland's Vesa-Matti Loiri with "Huilumies" and preceding Germany's Katja Ebstein with "Theater".