Tag: music

crayonic:

For people who are actually interested in how viking music might have sounded, “Drømde mik en drøm i nat“ (/I dreamt a dream last night) is the earliest music (and lyrics) known in Scandinavia preserved on the last page of the (~1200-1300) Codex Runicus as rune notes.

The song and melody is still known and used today in most of Scandinavia, as a sort of folk-standard. This version, deceivingly slow in the beginning, is presented as close to the original sound of the years 900-1000 as historians think they can come.

This song might have survived because it was a gigantic hit, like the viking’s very own “Billie Jean”. A total pop slayer that stayed around long enough for music notes to be invented.

The more you know.

Source: culturenordic.com

otto-mandias:

corseque:

poplitealqueen:

tuulikki:

heathyr:

legalizememes:

bruh

everything about this… this statue, the choppy waves, the cliffs behind her, the echo, the drumming….. aesthetic

Lyrics in Faroese:

Trøllabundin eri eg eri eg
Galdramaður festi meg festi meg
Trøllabundin djúpt í míni sál í míni sál
Í hjartanum logar brennandi bál brennandi bál

Trøllabundin eri eg eri eg
Galdramaður festi meg festi meg
Trøllabundin inn í hjartarót í hjartarót
Eyga mítt festist har ið galdramaður stóð

English translation:

Spellbound am I, am I
The wizard has enchanted me, enchanted me
Spellbound deep in my soul, in my soul
In my heart burns a smouldering fire, smouldering fire

Spellbound am I, am I
The wizard has enchanted me, enchanted me
Spellbound in my heart’s root, my heart’s root

Did anyone else just get the shivers? Cuz I’m definitely getting the shivers.

Btdubs, the singer is Eivør Pálsdóttir.

Reblogging again for the haunting wizard lyrics

shoutout to the faroe island for being the only real viking island left

some of my favorite silly plotlines from Scottish ballads

bonehandledknife:

bearsatan:

rottenappleheart:

  • Small village thinks illicit whiskey stills are its biggest problem until raiders show up and trash their everything. Death, destruction, etc. Raiders find whiskey still, get lit, pass out. Villagers murder them. Peace restored. Whiskey is king.
  • Shepherd lad spots fair maid skinny-dipping. Fair maid pleads for her virtue and/or clothing. Shepherd lad is complete gentleman, escorts her home with clothing and virtue intact. Fair maid demands to know what she has to do to get laid around here.
  • Plucky heroine’s boyfriend goes to sea, fails to return.
    Plucky heroine dresses in drag and goes to find him. Plucky heroine discovers
    boyfriend happily married to someone else. Plucky heroine shoots his head right
    off.
  • Do Not Stop By The Local Weaver’s House, You Will Get So
    Pregnant, Like, Super Pregnant, I’m Not Kidding, This Has Been A Public Service
    Announcement.
  • Wealthy farmwife habitually searches her maidservants’ dorm
    for SIGNS OF MEN out of concern for their virtue. Maids less concerned for
    their virtue are having None Of It. Maids hide scarecrow in dorm, farm mistakes
    scarecrow for prowler, farmwife decapitates scarecrow. Farmwife believes
    herself a murderer. Maids now permitted to do as they please, virtue-wise. 
  • Idiot son sent to market to sell cow. Scheming lass seduces
    idiot son out of cow, pants, and even shoes.
  • Dad returns from business trip to find daughter Super
    Pregnant, demands to meet the man responsible. Dad takes one look at man
    responsible and tells daughter “okay, you’re off the hook, I would have banged
    him too.”
  • Handsome stranger bribes fair maid to leave town with him.
    Fair maid rejects various bribes until handsome stranger flat-out offers her
    money, which she accepts. Handsome stranger turns out to be, to no one’s great
    surprise, the actual devil. Fair maid regrets her life choices.
  • Gallant knight goes forth to slay dragon. Dragon eats knight, but has indigestion.

ETA: If anyone has been reblogging this and wants to know what the songs are, here is the list! Or if you’re too lazy to click things, The Devil Uisge Beatha + Shepherd Lad + Billy Taylor + Tae The Weaver’s Gin Ye Go + The Straw Man + Cow Song + Willie Winsbury + The Devil’s Courtship + Sir Eglamore

@dog-of-ulthar

@lierdumoa relevant to our interests in many ways but also lolz

some stagehand probably: mr. tchaikovsky sir we cant actually hit the drum this hard it will break the instrument
potyr ilyich tchaikovsky, wheeling a cannon into the theater: does it look like i give a fuck, johann