Norway take top Euro honours

Norway’s Eikanger-Bjørsvik emerged from its ‘European’ wilderness to take the title for the first time in 28 years in a festival that saw Italy, Spain and Belgium sweep up the other European honours, and the UK take one youth title. Chief Contributor, Christopher Thomas, was in Oostende to witness the Brexit of European contest form

It is extraordinary to think that in 1989, the last time Eikanger-Bjørsvik Muikklag won the European title under Howard Snell in Bergen, a good number of the players that took to the stage for Eikanger at this year’s contest in Oostende’s Kursaal had not been born.

If anything, that startling statistic is a very clear indication of just how difficult the European Championship is to win, even for a band with the competitive credentials of Eikanger…

 
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