***** He did also describe Icelandic as being "not so much the language of love, more like the language of gutting fish". Great song though, despite my not understanding a word of it.
Badger737 I am fed up of British ESC commentators. I mean it seems they dislike ESC so damn change them. Even though, I have to admit that some of the non-musical jokes like "Not even Franco's secret service could make this win" (Spain 2009) were good.
Carles Manrich i Peres I am sure that our presenters (Terry Wogan RIP especially) love the ESC. I have been a great fan for decades but still apreciate the (shall we say) less than deferential comments by our chaps. I do agree that the "gutting fish" remark may have been a little hurtful. It really is a British/Irish thing. Here in England many of us enjoy friendly insults between friends and this is our way of showing respect which may appear strange to others. Additionally by not taking it too seriously they may be opening it up to a wider audience and let's face it, over the last few years the ESC hasn't always taken itself too seriously either. i do appreciate and respect your comment but feel that Terry and Graham were/are perfecr for us excentric Brits.
Andy I'm English and I have to respectfully disagree. I watched the 2008 contest through the other week. I believe it was the last one Wogan did? Anyway, he was TOTALLY disrespectful. He even spoke OVER some of the performances. He trashed almost every act. I loved the man, but his attitude towards the contest is exactly why nobody in the UK takes it seriously anymore. Respectful artists and songwriters don't touch it with a barge pole because they think it's this ridiculous awful contest with no talent. The public don't think it's a serious contest. Yeah, it's fun, it's sometimes ridiculous, but the majority of the artists and songs are really good. Sweden keeps winning because the public in Sweden are really behind it. They send their best, because winning or doing well at Eurovision gives an artist a big boost in Sweden and around Europe. Artists in the UK think Eurovision is below them. It's a shame, and it's at least partly if not mostly Wogan's fault and the fault of the BBC. A little bit of ribbing banter is fine, as you said that's our humour... but he went way too far, almost every year.
@@uraniahafdisatrhursdottir7802, Stockholm, Svearike här...Can understand spoken Icelandic maybe up to 30 percent or even more. Well, thanks to my now 95 year old grandmother (Trøndelag) along with lots of Norwegian relatives - of wich many I see as I spend my summers in my granny's birth place (Råkvagen, Fosen penincula) I am bilingual. :-)
@@Doug.Dimmadome Bobby Charlton was asked, after Iceland knocked England out, if thd team of 1966 would have done better. He replied, we might have won 2-1. The interviewer asked, rather rudely, why only 2-1? Bobby responded well 5 of us are dead and the rest of us are over 70 but we still would have done better.
Still goosebumps since I heard this song the first time! Here you can find the phantastic lyrics in serveral languages. 4lyrics.eu/esc/2013/eythor-ingi-gunnlaugsson-eg-a-lif/ Enjoy! :-) Think you will be much more impressed after you know all about the lyrics too!
Am I the only one who came back here after Sam Ryder’s Space man (UK entry 2022) to admire how Eythor and Sam look alike? Both great singers with great songs. 🇮🇸 🇬🇧
The British commentator said that Icelandic isn't so much the language of love but more the language of fish. I couldn't have disagreed more! I think Icelandic is one of the most beautiful languages in the world and this great song and performance deserved to reach much higher! Be proud of your language. Greetings from Denmark :)
@@peder6909 Sure, but modern culture can change the perception of anything. Thor might originally have been red haired in the good old norse mytho's but comics has shaped public perception of Thor and the Asgardians so people rarely discuss the actual mytho's anymore.
You know Iceland, I'm starting to think that you guys are too good for Eurovision. I mean you guys keep sending good, quality entries like this song, and yet europe keeps shitting on you all the time :/
+PrincessLockette I'm glad they don't know, just imagine 100000 people washing up their shores, polluting their beautiful their country I hope you never win Iceland
This is the language that has been preserved the best and least influenced of other languages since the time of the vikings. Thats pretty cool because this is probably how they spoke and sounded back then.
He was absolutely the best. His performence was perfect and he looks so goooood. I listen to this song every day over and over again.. Every time I get goosebumps I find this song so beautiful or I love goosebumps. Greetings from belgium
I usually translate non-English Eurovision songs, but some Estonian and Icelandic entries are so magical in their own language I wouldn't dare to do so!
God I really love this song...This was the best song and performance from last year and the REAL WINNER of Eurovision Song Contest 2013!!Such a great song!!
Mariel Kägo he is singing about life and how to make it beautiful and if you face some difficulties you should keep flying over mountains. It is pretty lyric in Icelandic
This by far should have been the winning song!!!! It had all the ingriedent s for that!!! Beautiful music and a great singer with a fantastic voive!! Well done Iceland!!!! Greetings from Malta.
How in the name of everything that is holy this incredibly beautiful song got the 17th place?! It has so much soul and charm in it… criminally underrated!
i dont understand a word he sings but when i heard it for the first time he made me cry.... i still dont know why.. but i think this is such a beutifull song.. he comes right at ya
Being danish I should have been extremely happy that my country won that year, but I woted for Iceland (again) and I am still very disappointed that this beautiful song didn't win!! Iceland have had so many great entries over the years and they truely deserve to win....hope you will send another amazing song like this another time....as always, can't wait to hear what you pick. :-) A lot of love from Denmark
I am Canadian. I don't speak the language, but the feeling of this song shines through the artist so clearly. I heard this when it was first performed on Eurovision. I didn't even know what Eurovision was, but my Aussie friend was watching it. I fell in love with this song and this performance. I still love to listen to it. So very beautiful...
Singing this in English would have been an injustice - and I'm from the UK. I don't speak a word of Icelandic, yet this song I really connected with and for me is the winner of 2013. Just so beautiful and haunting.
This and Estonia, two gorgeous songs in their native languages. Both of them are quite underrated and amongst my favorites of 2013. It's an unpopular opinion, but there are tons of songs from 2013 I still like.
I did not understand the power of love ... I did not dare to embrace, to exist ... I thought I did not deserve to let love overflow me ... But now because of you I'm alive... Ég Á Líf - Iceland 2013
Iceland always has great songs to Eurovision. Examples are this, or "coming home" and of course the gorgeous Yohanna. The 2012 deserved a better place, and this too. Iceland Eurovision should win because, he deserves it. Spain loves Iceland!
@@jazzycat8917 not really. Considering the netherlands won singing in Dutch(x2), Denmark, Italy ×2), Sweden (x2), Spain (x2), Israel (x3), Germany, Norway (x2), former Yugoslavia, Serbia, and Portugal have all won not singing in English or French most (all but 2) before the Native language rule was dropped (ignoring the short 4 year period in the 70s it was not applied)
I bought the single as soon as it released back in 2013. Still listen now and it's one of my 7 year old son's favourite songs. He is on the autism spectrum and is early verbal but he picks up song lyrics fast and can go days just sing that one song. This song has been a constant go back for him for the last few months and before that he hadnt heard it for a year.
My favourite song in the last year, by the way, Icelandic language sounds perfect, not only because Eythor, but as a language, the perfect scandinavian one
En Deciliter Tyko Icelandic is a Scandinavian language, almost unchanged from Old Nose in fact. it's not in Scandinavian peninsula but neither is Denmark, I guess we could say it's not in Scandinavia but it's Scandinavian.
As Graham Norton (the UK) commentator said "If this had been a singing contest he would have won".
***** He did also describe Icelandic as being "not so much the language of love, more like the language of gutting fish". Great song though, despite my not understanding a word of it.
I think that Netherlands would win)
Badger737 I am fed up of British ESC commentators. I mean it seems they dislike ESC so damn change them. Even though, I have to admit that some of the non-musical jokes like "Not even Franco's secret service could make this win" (Spain 2009) were good.
Carles Manrich i Peres I am sure that our presenters (Terry Wogan RIP especially) love the ESC. I have been a great fan for decades but still apreciate the (shall we say) less than deferential comments by our chaps. I do agree that the "gutting fish" remark may have been a little hurtful.
It really is a British/Irish thing. Here in England many of us enjoy friendly insults between friends and this is our way of showing respect which may appear strange to others. Additionally by not taking it too seriously they may be opening it up to a wider audience and let's face it, over the last few years the ESC hasn't always taken itself too seriously either.
i do appreciate and respect your comment but feel that Terry and Graham were/are perfecr for us excentric Brits.
Andy I'm English and I have to respectfully disagree. I watched the 2008 contest through the other week. I believe it was the last one Wogan did? Anyway, he was TOTALLY disrespectful. He even spoke OVER some of the performances. He trashed almost every act. I loved the man, but his attitude towards the contest is exactly why nobody in the UK takes it seriously anymore. Respectful artists and songwriters don't touch it with a barge pole because they think it's this ridiculous awful contest with no talent. The public don't think it's a serious contest. Yeah, it's fun, it's sometimes ridiculous, but the majority of the artists and songs are really good. Sweden keeps winning because the public in Sweden are really behind it. They send their best, because winning or doing well at Eurovision gives an artist a big boost in Sweden and around Europe. Artists in the UK think Eurovision is below them. It's a shame, and it's at least partly if not mostly Wogan's fault and the fault of the BBC. A little bit of ribbing banter is fine, as you said that's our humour... but he went way too far, almost every year.
I can't be the only one who still listens to this masterpiece. 2021 anyone?
Me :)
2022!
I do !! In love with the music, the voice ...
Yes 2022
And 2022 too mate
Only a few people may understand the lyrics, but everyone can feel the emotion
I can understand the lyrics he is basicly telling he has a life becuse of YOU or somthing its quiet hard to translate but thats basically the song
I don’t understand a word he singing, but he sounds fabulous. I feel the emotion.
im from iceland so i know the lyrics 😜
@@uraniahafdisatrhursdottir7802, Stockholm, Svearike här...Can understand spoken Icelandic maybe up to 30 percent or even more. Well, thanks to my now 95 year old grandmother (Trøndelag) along with lots of Norwegian relatives - of wich many I see as I spend my summers in my granny's birth place (Råkvagen, Fosen penincula) I am bilingual. :-)
I have life because of you easy translation
I'm happy I'm not the only one that still listens to this masterpiece!!!!
LIke if you still listen to this
I listen bro! Croatia
Vuk Krbavski Greetings to Croatia from Norway haahh
Serbia is here too! One of best Eurovision songs ever.
miles005 So true xD
Can't believe Sam Ryder represented Iceland in ESC 2013
Eurovision fans in 2013: Icelandic sounds so beautiful.
Hatari in 2019: Think again.
What are you talking about? Hatari is beauty in everything they do
Iceland almost always has a super act for such a small nation. Football same. We all love them except the trolls
@@Doug.Dimmadome Bobby Charlton was asked, after Iceland knocked England out, if thd team of 1966 would have done better. He replied, we might have won 2-1. The interviewer asked, rather rudely, why only 2-1? Bobby responded well 5 of us are dead and the rest of us are over 70 but we still would have done better.
@@Doug.Dimmadome Þú ert góður maður. En þegar íslenskir karlar byrja að syngja elska konur þá ...
@@madabbafan Laughing for 5 minutes and counting!
Coming after seeing Fire Saga, this is basically the closest we have to a real-life Húsavík song.
The following year's (2014) entrant would be the closest of having a real life Ja Ja Ding Dong.
Have you seen the video? I swear it inspired most of the film.
He's singing in Icelandic!
Double trouble sounds just like 2010's Icelandic entry.
I don't understand a word, but I love it.
Still goosebumps since I heard this song the first time! Here you can find the phantastic lyrics in serveral languages.
4lyrics.eu/esc/2013/eythor-ingi-gunnlaugsson-eg-a-lif/ Enjoy! :-)
Think you will be much more impressed after you know all about the lyrics too!
staikmuc ThankU, this song is the winner of hearts, Is wonderful :) Kveðjur frá Póllandi :)
ertu Íslenskur og býr í Póllandi?
Tómas Vilhelm eg held ekki,kanski kann bara þessa orð, eg er alveg viss að hann er að læra islensku x3
hann sagði að hann kann ekki nin orð en hann anskar það sámt
Am I the only one who came back here after Sam Ryder’s Space man (UK entry 2022) to admire how Eythor and Sam look alike? Both great singers with great songs. 🇮🇸 🇬🇧
OMG you are so right. 🤯
He was one of the best.
I don't even remeber who won.
This guy was awesome. He deserved a better place.
From Romania.
Denmark won
I remeber the country, but the song.
wbe7771 Only Teardrops - Emmelie de Forest :-)
And you're right, he really deserved a better place.
You're right. He was absolutely awesome *-*
Thank you thats my country
The British commentator said that Icelandic isn't so much the language of love but more the language of fish.
I couldn't have disagreed more! I think Icelandic is one of the most beautiful languages in the world and this great song and performance deserved to reach much higher!
Be proud of your language. Greetings from Denmark :)
2024 and still in love with this song..😊
Iceland is what I've always imagined to be the closest thing we have to elves. This proves my point so much.
I think the word you were looking for was vikings.
are you calling me an elf :P
Elves are not traditionally depicted as being hairy ;)
We Icelanders are VIKINGS, not ELVES :)
Daníel Thordarson
I think you are bit of both, good looks from elves willpower from vikings ;)
This song is so amazing, great, touching, Incredible, nordic, icelandic, perfect, wonderful....
I think that are enough reasons for the song to win😍😍😍
i couldn't describe it better :)
Thank you my dad is in this
And I'm from Iceland bye or on Icelandic bæ
My 4th favourite all time Eurovision entry. Should have won.
From Croatia
Also My 4th favourite of all time :)
My Top 5 Of All Time Are:
1: Slovenia 2014
2: Cyprus 2010
3: Romania 2015
4: Iceland 2013
5: Norway 2008
My Top 5 of All Time:
1: Italy 2015
2: Denmark 2000
3: UK 1997
4: Iceland 2013
5: Ireland 1996
also: 6: Ukraine 2004, she was gorgeous ;)
Odin wanted Thor to get a job...
Otto Kylänlahti Thor became a singer
Thor is red haired marvel idiots
@@peder6909 Sure, but modern culture can change the perception of anything. Thor might originally have been red haired in the good old norse mytho's but comics has shaped public perception of Thor and the Asgardians so people rarely discuss the actual mytho's anymore.
@@sindri1447 Sure Heimdall is black too than
@@peder6909 movies shape public perception so in that regard... yeah, he is.
This song is beautiful, I love the Icelandic language
Icelandic is so hard to learn but if you try some years its like drink water
You know Iceland, I'm starting to think that you guys are too good for Eurovision. I mean you guys keep sending good, quality entries like this song, and yet europe keeps shitting on you all the time :/
+PrincessLockette The side-effect of being an island located in the north and not having any neighbors ^~^
+RunicDragons well scandinavian countries usually like to vote each other :D yet sweden seems to eat most of the votes
+PrincessLockette I'm glad they don't know, just imagine 100000 people washing up their shores, polluting their beautiful their country
I hope you never win Iceland
I usually like iceland entries . This song should have won . From Spain
theres also no way they would ever be able to afford it.
It was my favourite song that year and I still come back to it from time to time. Beautiful!
In Hungarian Ég Á Lif (Ég a lift) means the elvalator is on fire :DDD
xD 😂😂😂
it means i have a life 😂😁🙈
Haha 😂😂😂
Perhaps you should make a Hungarian parody cover of this song :D :D :D
Lol we're singing as the elevator drove (ехал лифт)
This is the language that has been preserved the best and least influenced of other languages since the time of the vikings. Thats pretty cool because this is probably how they spoke and sounded back then.
Its True and fascinating
Not quite
It's been almost a decade, and I still come back to this. It's too good. 💖
His performance was just... Mesmerizing 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹😭😭🥲🥲🥲
He was absolutely the best. His performence was perfect and he looks so goooood.
I listen to this song every day over and over again.. Every time I get goosebumps
I find this song so beautiful or I love goosebumps.
Greetings from belgium
One of the best ESC-Song i've ever heard.
I voted for Iceland that year
Yeah me too :)
Beautiful in one word comback Eythor.
Your voice is so beautiful
I think you did took the right decision not translating to english - this song would have lost its charm!
Clearly the winner to me
The translation is beautiful honestly but I know what you mean xx
I usually translate non-English Eurovision songs, but some Estonian and Icelandic entries are so magical in their own language I wouldn't dare to do so!
God I really love this song...This was the best song and performance from last year and the REAL WINNER of Eurovision Song Contest 2013!!Such a great song!!
Icelandic Sam Ryder
6 years later this song is still one of my favorites I love it. Iceland well done❤️🇮🇸 greetings from Germany!
I have absolutely no clue what he's singing about, but this is really lovely to my ears and I really like it :)
Mariel Kägo he is singing about life and how to make it beautiful and if you face some difficulties you should keep flying over mountains. It is pretty lyric in Icelandic
Hólmfríður Hafliðadóttir Didn't he dedicate the song to his deceased father?
I still listen to this song, after all this time. Should've been at least in the top 3!
Cheers from Serbia
Legendary! 🇮🇸 I will always come back to this song 🥲
still one of the best performances and singers.. after YEARS...I do not understand he didn't win.. but still enjoying this uplifting performance
This by far should have been the winning song!!!! It had all the ingriedent s for that!!! Beautiful music and a great singer with a fantastic voive!! Well done Iceland!!!! Greetings from Malta.
Beautiful....all the times the songs from Iceland were magic....there language is magic....:)
When the backup singers came to him, the song explodes! Such mixted feelings! 02:31 my fav moment! #Romania here
How in the name of everything that is holy this incredibly beautiful song got the 17th place?! It has so much soul and charm in it… criminally underrated!
The most beautiful song. Straight from the heart ...
Still one of my absolute favourite ESC songs keeps going back to it! Love from Denmark
I cant understand any words, but it is magic... It is amazing! :)
"i have life"
He is perfect.
This is one of my favorites from Iceland! It's up there with "Never Forget", "Nætur", and "Minn hinsti dans".
En äkta Viking! Stolt över Island . Hälsningar från Sverige
,
Martha Ceballos
H
Takk
Er også stolt af Island! 🇩🇰
Jeg er også stolt!🇳🇴🇮🇸
This was the best song in 2013 after Denmark, love it. Cant understand it didnt get in top 3
ESC DK says a Dane xD
actually it's better than Denmark ;)
This is the best Song every Time of Grand Prix Eurovision
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i dont understand a word he sings but when i heard it for the first time he made me cry.... i still dont know why.. but i think this is such a beutifull song.. he comes right at ya
This beautiful song always comes to my mind when I think of 2013
MOREEEEE singers like this! :D
yes , please,.....jajajajaja
He's got such a wonderful voice :)
This is the only eurovision song that has made me cry... Almost nine years later I still feel the chills while listening to it ;-;
What an amazing live performance! his singing ability is marvellous. Iceland always sends great songs every year.
But very rarely do they send them in Icelandic. This is a treat.
I have read the English translation and i like lyrics. I like Icelandic sounds as well
cette année l'islande c'était pas ça..
Being danish I should have been extremely happy that my country won that year, but I woted for Iceland (again) and I am still very disappointed that this beautiful song didn't win!!
Iceland have had so many great entries over the years and they truely deserve to win....hope you will send another amazing song like this another time....as always, can't wait to hear what you pick. :-) A lot of love from Denmark
I am Canadian. I don't speak the language, but the feeling of this song shines through the artist so clearly. I heard this when it was first performed on Eurovision. I didn't even know what Eurovision was, but my Aussie friend was watching it. I fell in love with this song and this performance. I still love to listen to it. So very beautiful...
Singing this in English would have been an injustice - and I'm from the UK. I don't speak a word of Icelandic, yet this song I really connected with and for me is the winner of 2013. Just so beautiful and haunting.
Just can't get enough of this ballade... In my heart this is the winning song.
This and Estonia, two gorgeous songs in their native languages. Both of them are quite underrated and amongst my favorites of 2013. It's an unpopular opinion, but there are tons of songs from 2013 I still like.
Best song in Eurovision 2013!!!!
I love this song...
Beautifully sung & an lovely song. Deserve to win.
I did not understand the power of love ... I did not dare to embrace, to exist ... I thought I did not deserve to let love overflow me ... But now because of you I'm alive... Ég Á Líf - Iceland 2013
I love the song.. i love the language... i love the melody.. i love his voice.... i love it all!!!!
Love from the Philippines....
Das beste Lied, das es jemals beim Grandprix gab - unerreichbar
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Iceland always has great songs to Eurovision. Examples are this, or "coming home" and of course the gorgeous Yohanna. The 2012 deserved a better place, and this too.
Iceland Eurovision should win because, he deserves it.
Spain loves Iceland!
He's such a beautiful singer. He makes it sound effortless.
12 Points from Turkey :) Eythor Ingi - Ég Á Líf - Iceland - is the real winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2013 ;)
i don't understand any words of this song, but its tune makes me feel wonderful.
This is such a beautiful song. :)
lyrics perfect!
goosebumps everytime I watch this!
Thor what are you doing there are people dying
Punctuation matters:
Thor, what are you doing there? Are people dying?
+Aaron Bakota Thank you, captain obvious.
Eileen Chang grammar life matters
What I am missing with this comment? I don't get it.
Eileen Chang he is singing in Eurovision
I love this song, it's very, very good. This voice is one of the best from what I've heard. for me, though, is winning
Gorgeous! Both man and song! Love from Sweden
I love this song so much!
I love it! Beautiful song, nice voice and just a simple performance on the stage...Kisses Iceland from Greece
This is what Eurovision should return to. I miss the days when countries sung in their own language
@@jazzycat8917 not really. Considering the netherlands won singing in Dutch(x2), Denmark, Italy ×2), Sweden (x2), Spain (x2), Israel (x3), Germany, Norway (x2), former Yugoslavia, Serbia, and Portugal have all won not singing in English or French most (all but 2) before the Native language rule was dropped (ignoring the short 4 year period in the 70s it was not applied)
@@jazzycat8917 As a Finno-Ugric speaker... I agree
Sigue enamorándome esta canción
still LOVE this song. greetings from Hungary! :)
Jó napot:)
This song has got a soul of its own...like the breeze upon the cold ocean, which gives you chills and an oneiric state.
One of my favorites, very beautyfull song
I love this song.
Una de las mejores de Islandia en Eurovisiónj...con toque nostálgico a la música nórdica interpretó muy bien el tema.
Beautiful.... not just the man, but the song also.... :)
This Song is the best Song for every time at the ESC
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Even 4 years later, I am still in love. This song is so peaceful... Greeting from Belgium ♡
me to
This song is so calming! I’m listening to it while fixing coursework and it really helps!
Best song in eurovision i've ever heard! Love it!
Goosebumps in 2018.
I bought the single as soon as it released back in 2013. Still listen now and it's one of my 7 year old son's favourite songs. He is on the autism spectrum and is early verbal but he picks up song lyrics fast and can go days just sing that one song. This song has been a constant go back for him for the last few months and before that he hadnt heard it for a year.
♥️
My favourite song in the last year, by the way, Icelandic language sounds perfect, not only because Eythor, but as a language, the perfect scandinavian one
Iceland isn't a part of the scandinavian countries, but it is a nordic country.
En Deciliter Tyko Scandinavian/Nordic means the same in Catalan and Spanish.
Carlos Manrique Pérez that's not true, spanish is my mother tongue. scandinavia is the peninsula, nordic is a larger area.
Surfer Rosa wait, but are you Spanish or not? It is like when one says England instead of the UK, though do not make that error.
En Deciliter Tyko Icelandic is a Scandinavian language, almost unchanged from Old Nose in fact. it's not in Scandinavian peninsula but neither is Denmark, I guess we could say it's not in Scandinavia but it's Scandinavian.
Still loving this ❤️ from Italy :)
Preciosa canción, bellisima voz y un hombre guapísimo.
And 7 years later i'm here listening to my favourite eurovision song of all times.
Cheers from Italy.
This song reminds me of Christmas, this is awesome. From Romania with love!
love this song so much..
i Löfa að ég muni elska þetta lag svo mikið
uma das minhas favoritas e uma musica excelente...
Absolutely adore this song!!
I just LOVE this song so much!!! It should have won.
I can play the piano piece on the piano. I actually did it for the competition! And this song just brightens up my day! *my ancestors where icelandic*
Still my favourite! Love this song!!!!
I still listen to this song on regular base,, and it touches everytime,,, so well sung,, great, performance in all its simplicity