This waltz was brought to New England in 1980 by Cammy and Van Kaynor and Becky Ashenden after visiting western Dalarna in Sweden. The tune comes from the town of Boda near Rättvik.
Originally named the Ookpik Waltz, this tune was written in 1965 by British Columbian fiddler Frankie Rodgers (1936-2009). It is also known as the Eskimo Waltz because of rumors that it was composed by an Eskimo, probably as a result of the fact that Ookpik is an Inuktitut word for "arctic owl."
