Þat Mælti Mín Móðir (My Mother Told Me in Old Norse) - Cover by The Pagan Minstrel
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- Original lyrics by Egill Skallagrímsson (Egill's Saga ch. 40), original song by Einar Selvik.
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LYRICS
Þat mælti mín móðir
at mér skyldi kaupa
fley ok fagrar árar
fara á brott með víkingum
Standa upp í stafni
stýra dýrum knerri
halda svá til hafnar
hǫggva mann ok annan
hǫggva mann ok annan
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Finally someone who really does use Old Norse and not the icelandic pronounciation. That adds so much more depth and intensity to the play. Love it.
where can you learn it?
Except no one uses the true Old Norse pronunciation anymore.
Like all languages, pronunciations change over time.
And if this were not the case, it would be the Icelandic which would have the most exact pronunciation because they have been very little influenced by other languages.
@@kjarllan7097 To add to this, the vikings themselves probably used different pronunciations since Old Norse was used by the Swedish and the Danish as well during that time, not just the Norwegians. After all, pronunciations change based on location and region. That said, the Icelandic pronunciation might not be close, but their language is.
@@kjarllan7097Icelandic is actually not that close to old norse. It's not just pronounciation that's different. Both the grammar and whole bunch of words are also pretty different.
@@whatsleft5059 It's close enough, more so than any other language. Any differences between the two is trivial.
I love that it's sung in Old Norse, a gem of a forgotten language that should be forever respected and honored.
I think it’s Icelandic, not Old Norse.
@@jallown There's not much difference, other than vowel drift over the past thousand years.
Go to Iceland old Norse still lives in the land of my ancestors
Icelandic is western old Norse Swedish is eastern old norse
Old Norse is the original Norwegian language.
Yeh .. I can't understand a word but somehow I feel like I've been waiting my whole life to hear this without knowing it..
The language spoken can make all the difference. The old ways including language should never be forgotten. This version was amazing. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 to thePagan Minstrel.
I highly recommend learning Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish / Welsh / Forn Svenska 2gether, as they are one of the prettiest languages ever, as pretty and refined and poetic as English, and are way too cool and gorgeous and heavenly not to know, plus they are one of the languages of the future, same as English - I am upper intermediate level in Norse and Icelandic and I can understand every word in this song, plus I know the lyrics by heart!
By the way, I have the right Norse pronunciation, which is the most logical, and by the way, I will use DH for the TH sound in the English words this and that, which is the approximant of D and not the approximant of T like the TH in the English word think, and I will use AO for the ‘closed’ A sound that is like an A and O sound said 2gether in one sound (similar to the A sound in Hungarian) that melts into a soft O sound!
For example...
- hvat sounds like hvat or vat or kvat
- mæra sounds like mera
- ávast sounds like avast
- nágrindr sounds like naogrind:r
- líkligr sounds like liklig:r or likliguhr
- frænda sounds like freinda or freoynda or frenda
- þat sounds like that
- ræðir sounds like reidhir
- hárr sounds like haruhr or har:r (could have also been har / harr)
- gæfr sounds like gev:r or gevuhr
- hverfa sounds like hverva or verva or kverva (any of them or all 3 could’ve been used)
Also...
- hæll sounds like heyl
- saltr sounds like solt:r
- mæla sounds like mala
- drápa sounds like drapa or dropa
- kæra sounds like kaera or kaira
- ferr sounds like fer:r
- jafna sounds like yavna
- hœgri sounds like heoyri
- girðing sounds like girdhing
- hádegi sounds like haodegi
- ørendislaust sounds like eorendislaust
The word...
- verr sounds like ver
- ekki sounds like eki or ehki
- þverra sounds like thverra
- gegna sounds like gekna
- vefja sounds like vevya
- yfir sounds like ɪvɪr as in Icelandic
- ætla sounds like etla
- ofn sounds like ovn
- náliga sounds like naoliga
- sauma could have been pronounced either saima or seoyma like in Icelandic or both or even sauma as it is written
- ofleti sounds like ofleti
The emphasis of stress in Norse languages such as Norse and Icelandic etc is always at the beginning of the word - for compound words made of multiple smaller words, one should add a bit of stress at the beginning of each word that the compound word is made of and the most stress always at the beginning of the compound word...
I don’t think there was any fixed way of pronouncing the diphthongs, and it’s most likely that the pronunciation of diphthongs such as AU would differ depending on the word, including pronunciations such as ai / au / ao / eoy / oy / ey etc, and it may have also differed depending on the region and accent, and the Æ in Norse can have many pronunciations, depending on the word, so it can sound like e / ei / a / eoy / oey / uey / ai / ea / ae etc, depending on what sound sounds best and the most natural and easiest to say in each word, so one should use one’s intuition a lot in Norse...
The Rs are always different depending on the region and depending of the speaker in every language, but in Germanic languages, a soft normal R is usually used by most speakers and by younger speakers, and I highly recommend using a soft normal R in Norse and in all other languages that aren’t English as soft Rs have the best and most refined sound, soft Rs that are pronounced as fast as possible being the types of Rs that truly suit such refined languages as Norse and the other Germanic languages, whereas hard or prolonged or thrilled Rs sound very harsh and unrefined...
By the way, it’s also important to know that in Norse and Icelandic the G is usually pronounced like a K sound, especially at the end of the word, and in many words the G is pronounced K even in the middle of the word, and there are also some words where the G is pronounced as a K even when it is at the beginning of the word, so it is normal to hear a lot of K sounds when there is a G in spelling - for example, lots of speakers of Icelandic will pronounce even the G in góðan (góðan daginn) as a soft K sound, without even realizing, and this pronunciation rule comes from Norse!
Here are some of the most important sounds + pronunciation rules in Icelandic, as Icelandic has one of the easiest / prettiest / coolest pronunciations ever, having a category 1 pronunciation with super cool modern sounds! - the eth letter ð is an approximant of the letter D (a less obvious D similar to the D in the Spanish word nada and like the TH in the English words this and that) and the thorn letter þ is an approximant of T (a less obvious T that’s sort of lisped, and it is the same sound as the TH in the English words think and thing, though it sounds closer to a normal T sound in Icelandic)
More pronunciation rules and sounds in Icelandic...
- the HV is pronounced KV
- the NN is pronounced as a TN if it comes after Æ and after EI / EY and after a long vowel such as Á / É / Í / Ó / Ú (but it is a normal N sound if it comes after the short vowels A / E / I / O / U and in inn word combinations, and I recommend adding a very soft breathy H sound to the ‘inn’ word ending in masculine words to make it a bit different from the word ending ‘in’ which is the feminine word ending, like I do, as I pronounce the inn more like ihn in masculine nouns and masculine adjectives that have the inn word ending, which represents the definite article in nouns, tho there are also three articles that aren’t added to the noun, namely hinn and hin and hið, so, one can say hinn stormur or stormurinn and hinn storm or storminn as both mean the storm in nominative and accusative)
- the LL is usually pronounced TL in most words and if the LL is at the end of the word it sounds more like a weak T sound
- the RN is pronounced with an extra soft ‘nasal’ T sound between the R and the N (so a word like þarna sounds like thartna)
- the FL / FN letter combinations are pronounced PL / PN (so F becomes a P sound if it’s before an L or an N)
- the G is ultra soft in short words like ég and mig etc, so it is pronounced more like an H sound (so ég sounds like yeh) and the G in the middle of the words is kinda soft (in words like segja / saga / segir etc it is a soft G that is still a G sound and not an H) and the Gs and GGs can also sound like Ks in many of the words if they are at the end of the word or even in the middle of the word and sometimes even at the beginning of the word (same as in Old Norse) tho Gs are usually pronounced like a normal G sound if they are at the beginning of the word (except for a few words)
- the KK / TT etc is pronounced more like HK / HT as a soft breathy H sound is included before the K / T sound when there is a double consonant and even when there are two different consonants (for example, ekki sounds like ehki and óútreiknanlegt sounds like outreihnanleht etc)
- the letter F is usually pronounced like a V if it’s in the middle of the word or at the end of the word (so leyfa sounds like leyva) and it is pronounced like a normal F sound if it’s at the beginning of the word or very close to the beginning of the word (for example, if a words starts with af, the af is pronounced af, not av)
The diphthongs and umlauts and vowels in Icelandic...
- AU is pronounced EOI (normal e sound + normal o sound + normal i sound said 2gether fast in one sound)
- EI / EY are pronounced EI / EY (same as they are spellt)
- the Æ / æ is usually pronounced ai in most Icelandic words (but hvenær seems to be pronounced kvenar and not really kvenair, so it depends on the word)
- Ö is an EO sound (normal e sound + normal o sound said 2gether in one sound, like the œ in the French word cœur)
- Ó is usually pronounced OU
- O is usually pronounced UO and sometimes as a normal O sound aka oh (depending on the word)
- Ú is a normal u sound (uh)
- U is a more rounded YU sound (like the u in the French word mur and it is also the same sound as the Ü in Hungarian and German and the same sound as the UU in Dutch in words like muur and duur) tho in some words it is pronounced like a normal U sound (especially at the beginning of the word in words like ungur, and when there are multiple Us in the same word it’s usually the last U that is pronounced like YU and most other Us are pronounced like a normal U sound in that kind of words)
- Á is an AU sound in almost every word (there are only a few exceptions)
- A is a normal a sound (ah) and the A before NG / NK is pronounced like an AU sound just like the Á (so að ganga sounds like ath gaunga and it means to walk)
- É is an YE sound (normal i sound + normal e sound)
- E is a normal e sound (full e sound aka eh)
- Í / Ý is a normal i sound (ih)
- I / Y is a half i sound (this sound is very similar to how the i is pronounced in most English words like fit and chips and this, so it’s sort of like a weak i that goes more towards an e sound, but it isn’t a full e sound, and it isn’t a full i sound either, so it’s right between an i sound and an e sound)
I am from Germany but the language does something with me. I am captivated by it and then this voice and music.
I highly recommend learning Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish / Welsh / Forn Svenska 2gether, as they are one of the prettiest languages ever, as pretty and refined and poetic as English, and are way too cool and gorgeous and heavenly not to know, plus they are one of the languages of the future, same as English - I am upper intermediate level in Norse and Icelandic and I can understand every word in this song, plus I know the lyrics by heart!
By the way, I have the right Norse pronunciation, which is the most logical, and by the way, I will use DH for the TH sound in the English words this and that, which is the approximant of D and not the approximant of T like the TH in the English word think, and I will use AO for the ‘closed’ A sound that is like an A and O sound said 2gether in one sound (similar to the A sound in Hungarian) that melts into a soft O sound!
For example...
- hvat sounds like hvat or vat or kvat
- mæra sounds like mera
- ávast sounds like avast
- nágrindr sounds like naogrind:r
- líkligr sounds like liklig:r or likliguhr
- frænda sounds like freinda or freoynda or frenda
- þat sounds like that
- ræðir sounds like reidhir
- hárr sounds like haruhr or har:r (could have also been har / harr)
- gæfr sounds like gev:r or gevuhr
- hverfa sounds like hverva or verva or kverva (any of them or all 3 could’ve been used)
Also...
- hæll sounds like heyl
- saltr sounds like solt:r
- mæla sounds like mala
- drápa sounds like drapa or dropa
- kæra sounds like kaera or kaira
- ferr sounds like fer:r
- jafna sounds like yavna
- hœgri sounds like heoyri
- girðing sounds like girdhing
- hádegi sounds like haodegi
- ørendislaust sounds like eorendislaust
The word...
- verr sounds like ver
- ekki sounds like eki or ehki
- þverra sounds like thverra
- gegna sounds like gekna
- vefja sounds like vevya
- yfir sounds like ɪvɪr as in Icelandic
- ætla sounds like etla
- ofn sounds like ovn
- náliga sounds like naoliga
- sauma could have been pronounced either saima or seoyma like in Icelandic or both or even sauma as it is written
- ofleti sounds like ofleti
The emphasis of stress in Norse languages such as Norse and Icelandic etc is always at the beginning of the word - for compound words made of multiple smaller words, one should add a bit of stress at the beginning of each word that the compound word is made of and the most stress always at the beginning of the compound word...
I don’t think there was any fixed way of pronouncing the diphthongs, and it’s most likely that the pronunciation of diphthongs such as AU would differ depending on the word, including pronunciations such as ai / au / ao / eoy / oy / ey etc, and it may have also differed depending on the region and accent, and the Æ in Norse can have many pronunciations, depending on the word, so it can sound like e / ei / a / eoy / oey / uey / ai / ea / ae etc, depending on what sound sounds best and the most natural and easiest to say in each word, so one should use one’s intuition a lot in Norse...
The Rs are always different depending on the region and depending of the speaker in every language, but in Germanic languages, a soft normal R is usually used by most speakers and by younger speakers, and I highly recommend using a soft normal R in Norse and in all other languages that aren’t English as soft Rs have the best and most refined sound, soft Rs that are pronounced as fast as possible being the types of Rs that truly suit such refined languages as Norse and the other Germanic languages, whereas hard or prolonged or thrilled Rs sound very harsh and unrefined...
By the way, it’s also important to know that in Norse and Icelandic the G is usually pronounced like a K sound, especially at the end of the word, and in many words the G is pronounced K even in the middle of the word, and there are also some words where the G is pronounced as a K even when it is at the beginning of the word, so it is normal to hear a lot of K sounds when there is a G in spelling - for example, lots of speakers of Icelandic will pronounce even the G in góðan (góðan daginn) as a soft K sound, without even realizing, and this pronunciation rule comes from Norse!
Here are some of the most important sounds + pronunciation rules in Icelandic, as Icelandic has one of the easiest / prettiest / coolest pronunciations ever, having a category 1 pronunciation with super cool modern sounds! - the eth letter ð is an approximant of the letter D (a less obvious D similar to the D in the Spanish word nada and like the TH in the English words this and that) and the thorn letter þ is an approximant of T (a less obvious T that’s sort of lisped, and it is the same sound as the TH in the English words think and thing, though it sounds closer to a normal T sound in Icelandic)
More pronunciation rules and sounds in Icelandic...
- the HV is pronounced KV
- the NN is pronounced as a TN if it comes after Æ and after EI / EY and after a long vowel such as Á / É / Í / Ó / Ú (but it is a normal N sound if it comes after the short vowels A / E / I / O / U and in inn word combinations, and I recommend adding a very soft breathy H sound to the ‘inn’ word ending in masculine words to make it a bit different from the word ending ‘in’ which is the feminine word ending, like I do, as I pronounce the inn more like ihn in masculine nouns and masculine adjectives that have the inn word ending, which represents the definite article in nouns, tho there are also three articles that aren’t added to the noun, namely hinn and hin and hið, so, one can say hinn stormur or stormurinn and hinn storm or storminn as both mean the storm in nominative and accusative)
- the LL is usually pronounced TL in most words and if the LL is at the end of the word it sounds more like a weak T sound
- the RN is pronounced with an extra soft ‘nasal’ T sound between the R and the N (so a word like þarna sounds like thartna)
- the FL / FN letter combinations are pronounced PL / PN (so F becomes a P sound if it’s before an L or an N)
- the G is ultra soft in short words like ég and mig etc, so it is pronounced more like an H sound (so ég sounds like yeh) and the G in the middle of the words is kinda soft (in words like segja / saga / segir etc it is a soft G that is still a G sound and not an H) and the Gs and GGs can also sound like Ks in many of the words if they are at the end of the word or even in the middle of the word and sometimes even at the beginning of the word (same as in Old Norse) tho Gs are usually pronounced like a normal G sound if they are at the beginning of the word (except for a few words)
- the KK / TT etc is pronounced more like HK / HT as a soft breathy H sound is included before the K / T sound when there is a double consonant and even when there are two different consonants (for example, ekki sounds like ehki and óútreiknanlegt sounds like outreihnanleht etc)
- the letter F is usually pronounced like a V if it’s in the middle of the word or at the end of the word (so leyfa sounds like leyva) and it is pronounced like a normal F sound if it’s at the beginning of the word or very close to the beginning of the word (for example, if a words starts with af, the af is pronounced af, not av)
The diphthongs and umlauts and vowels in Icelandic...
- AU is pronounced EOI (normal e sound + normal o sound + normal i sound said 2gether fast in one sound)
- EI / EY are pronounced EI / EY (same as they are spellt)
- the Æ / æ is usually pronounced ai in most Icelandic words (but hvenær seems to be pronounced kvenar and not really kvenair, so it depends on the word)
- Ö is an EO sound (normal e sound + normal o sound said 2gether in one sound, like the œ in the French word cœur)
- Ó is usually pronounced OU
- O is usually pronounced UO and sometimes as a normal O sound aka oh (depending on the word)
- Ú is a normal u sound (uh)
- U is a more rounded YU sound (like the u in the French word mur and it is also the same sound as the Ü in Hungarian and German and the same sound as the UU in Dutch in words like muur and duur) tho in some words it is pronounced like a normal U sound (especially at the beginning of the word in words like ungur, and when there are multiple Us in the same word it’s usually the last U that is pronounced like YU and most other Us are pronounced like a normal U sound in that kind of words)
- Á is an AU sound in almost every word (there are only a few exceptions)
- A is a normal a sound (ah) and the A before NG / NK is pronounced like an AU sound just like the Á (so að ganga sounds like ath gaunga and it means to walk)
- É is an YE sound (normal i sound + normal e sound)
- E is a normal e sound (full e sound aka eh)
- Í / Ý is a normal i sound (ih)
- I / Y is a half i sound (this sound is very similar to how the i is pronounced in most English words like fit and chips and this, so it’s sort of like a weak i that goes more towards an e sound, but it isn’t a full e sound, and it isn’t a full i sound either, so it’s right between an i sound and an e sound)
@@FrozenMermaid666 : Where exactly does Welsh fit into this family of languages?
Я из России и я очарован этим. Erwache Norden ✊🏻
Swedish here. We approve. Fara á brott með víkingum.
Skål!
Skál! Fara á brott með víkingum to you too buddy Swede to Swede
Norse.. best version of that... - thank you !!!! 🐺🐺🐺
Inmortal,sacred and alive in our souls the call of the old religion..Allvater Odin,we call you,Valhalla awaits..!
When she plucked the first notes I had goosebumps on the back of my legs and shivers up my spine. Love this music and watch it often
Old Norse is so under appreciated these days I honestly wish more songs I know had a Norse version to them for real
I just love old norse! It sounds so great. Beautyful, proud and powerful at the same time.....
Great version of a great song. Thank you for that.
I highly recommend learning Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish / Welsh / Forn Svenska 2gether, as they are one of the prettiest languages ever, as pretty and refined and poetic as English, and are way too cool and gorgeous and heavenly not to know, plus they are one of the languages of the future, same as English - I am upper intermediate level in Norse and Icelandic and I can understand every word in this song, plus I know the lyrics by heart!
By the way, I have the right Norse pronunciation, which is the most logical, and by the way, I will use DH for the TH sound in the English words this and that, which is the approximant of D and not the approximant of T like the TH in the English word think, and I will use AO for the ‘closed’ A sound that is like an A and O sound said 2gether in one sound (similar to the A sound in Hungarian) that melts into a soft O sound!
For example...
- hvat sounds like hvat or vat or kvat
- mæra sounds like mera
- ávast sounds like avast
- nágrindr sounds like naogrind:r
- líkligr sounds like liklig:r or likliguhr
- frænda sounds like freinda or freoynda or frenda
- þat sounds like that
- ræðir sounds like reidhir
- hárr sounds like haruhr or har:r (could have also been har / harr)
- gæfr sounds like gev:r or gevuhr
- hverfa sounds like hverva or verva or kverva (any of them or all 3 could’ve been used)
Also...
- hæll sounds like heyl
- saltr sounds like solt:r
- mæla sounds like mala
- drápa sounds like drapa or dropa
- kæra sounds like kaera or kaira
- ferr sounds like fer:r
- jafna sounds like yavna
- hœgri sounds like heoyri
- girðing sounds like girdhing
- hádegi sounds like haodegi
- ørendislaust sounds like eorendislaust
The word...
- verr sounds like ver
- ekki sounds like eki or ehki
- þverra sounds like thverra
- gegna sounds like gekna
- vefja sounds like vevya
- yfir sounds like ɪvɪr as in Icelandic
- ætla sounds like etla
- ofn sounds like ovn
- náliga sounds like naoliga
- sauma could have been pronounced either saima or seoyma like in Icelandic or both or even sauma as it is written
- ofleti sounds like ofleti
The emphasis of stress in Norse languages such as Norse and Icelandic etc is always at the beginning of the word - for compound words made of multiple smaller words, one should add a bit of stress at the beginning of each word that the compound word is made of and the most stress always at the beginning of the compound word...
I don’t think there was any fixed way of pronouncing the diphthongs, and it’s most likely that the pronunciation of diphthongs such as AU would differ depending on the word, including pronunciations such as ai / au / ao / eoy / oy / ey etc, and it may have also differed depending on the region and accent, and the Æ in Norse can have many pronunciations, depending on the word, so it can sound like e / ei / a / eoy / oey / uey / ai / ea / ae etc, depending on what sound sounds best and the most natural and easiest to say in each word, so one should use one’s intuition a lot in Norse...
The Rs are always different depending on the region and depending of the speaker in every language, but in Germanic languages, a soft normal R is usually used by most speakers and by younger speakers, and I highly recommend using a soft normal R in Norse and in all other languages that aren’t English as soft Rs have the best and most refined sound, soft Rs that are pronounced as fast as possible being the types of Rs that truly suit such refined languages as Norse and the other Germanic languages, whereas hard or prolonged or thrilled Rs sound very harsh and unrefined...
By the way, it’s also important to know that in Norse and Icelandic the G is usually pronounced like a K sound, especially at the end of the word, and in many words the G is pronounced K even in the middle of the word, and there are also some words where the G is pronounced as a K even when it is at the beginning of the word, so it is normal to hear a lot of K sounds when there is a G in spelling - for example, lots of speakers of Icelandic will pronounce even the G in góðan (góðan daginn) as a soft K sound, without even realizing, and this pronunciation rule comes from Norse!
Here are some of the most important sounds + pronunciation rules in Icelandic, as Icelandic has one of the easiest / prettiest / coolest pronunciations ever, having a category 1 pronunciation with super cool modern sounds! - the eth letter ð is an approximant of the letter D (a less obvious D similar to the D in the Spanish word nada and like the TH in the English words this and that) and the thorn letter þ is an approximant of T (a less obvious T that’s sort of lisped, and it is the same sound as the TH in the English words think and thing, though it sounds closer to a normal T sound in Icelandic)
More pronunciation rules and sounds in Icelandic...
- the HV is pronounced KV
- the NN is pronounced as a TN if it comes after Æ and after EI / EY and after a long vowel such as Á / É / Í / Ó / Ú (but it is a normal N sound if it comes after the short vowels A / E / I / O / U and in inn word combinations, and I recommend adding a very soft breathy H sound to the ‘inn’ word ending in masculine words to make it a bit different from the word ending ‘in’ which is the feminine word ending, like I do, as I pronounce the inn more like ihn in masculine nouns and masculine adjectives that have the inn word ending, which represents the definite article in nouns, tho there are also three articles that aren’t added to the noun, namely hinn and hin and hið, so, one can say hinn stormur or stormurinn and hinn storm or storminn as both mean the storm in nominative and accusative)
- the LL is usually pronounced TL in most words and if the LL is at the end of the word it sounds more like a weak T sound
- the RN is pronounced with an extra soft ‘nasal’ T sound between the R and the N (so a word like þarna sounds like thartna)
- the FL / FN letter combinations are pronounced PL / PN (so F becomes a P sound if it’s before an L or an N)
- the G is ultra soft in short words like ég and mig etc, so it is pronounced more like an H sound (so ég sounds like yeh) and the G in the middle of the words is kinda soft (in words like segja / saga / segir etc it is a soft G that is still a G sound and not an H) and the Gs and GGs can also sound like Ks in many of the words if they are at the end of the word or even in the middle of the word and sometimes even at the beginning of the word (same as in Old Norse) tho Gs are usually pronounced like a normal G sound if they are at the beginning of the word (except for a few words)
- the KK / TT etc is pronounced more like HK / HT as a soft breathy H sound is included before the K / T sound when there is a double consonant and even when there are two different consonants (for example, ekki sounds like ehki and óútreiknanlegt sounds like outreihnanleht etc)
- the letter F is usually pronounced like a V if it’s in the middle of the word or at the end of the word (so leyfa sounds like leyva) and it is pronounced like a normal F sound if it’s at the beginning of the word or very close to the beginning of the word (for example, if a words starts with af, the af is pronounced af, not av)
The diphthongs and umlauts and vowels in Icelandic...
- AU is pronounced EOI (normal e sound + normal o sound + normal i sound said 2gether fast in one sound)
- EI / EY are pronounced EI / EY (same as they are spellt)
- the Æ / æ is usually pronounced ai in most Icelandic words (but hvenær seems to be pronounced kvenar and not really kvenair, so it depends on the word)
- Ö is an EO sound (normal e sound + normal o sound said 2gether in one sound, like the œ in the French word cœur)
- Ó is usually pronounced OU
- O is usually pronounced UO and sometimes as a normal O sound aka oh (depending on the word)
- Ú is a normal u sound (uh)
- U is a more rounded YU sound (like the u in the French word mur and it is also the same sound as the Ü in Hungarian and German and the same sound as the UU in Dutch in words like muur and duur) tho in some words it is pronounced like a normal U sound (especially at the beginning of the word in words like ungur, and when there are multiple Us in the same word it’s usually the last U that is pronounced like YU and most other Us are pronounced like a normal U sound in that kind of words)
- Á is an AU sound in almost every word (there are only a few exceptions)
- A is a normal a sound (ah) and the A before NG / NK is pronounced like an AU sound just like the Á (so að ganga sounds like ath gaunga and it means to walk)
- É is an YE sound (normal i sound + normal e sound)
- E is a normal e sound (full e sound aka eh)
- Í / Ý is a normal i sound (ih)
- I / Y is a half i sound (this sound is very similar to how the i is pronounced in most English words like fit and chips and this, so it’s sort of like a weak i that goes more towards an e sound, but it isn’t a full e sound, and it isn’t a full i sound either, so it’s right between an i sound and an e sound)
WATCH MORE OF MY COVERS:
🎵My Mother Told Me in Old Norse: th-cam.com/video/M6Us4l11bLE/w-d-xo.html
🎵Valhalla Calling in Old Norse: th-cam.com/video/qApdMziXM4k/w-d-xo.html
🎵WARDRUNA - Helvegen: th-cam.com/video/4LRATGf4RFk/w-d-xo.html
Your so beautiful
Simply outstanding. Beautiful voice. Love it 🙂🙂🇩🇰🇩🇰
Thank you ma'am for doing this I deeply appreciate that as a man who's part Danish and Swedish I approve and Old Norse is still spoken in Iceland it has been updated for modern use and móðir still means mother in Icelandic and I'm actually learning the Icelandic tongue and it's so beautiful
It’s the voice of a Valkyrie! Gorgeously done
This version truly is underrated and unnoticed; you should have more views.
I agree!
It is very hard to google in this language. "Þat Mælti Mín Móðir" is not something I google daily.
This is still the best music ever! Amazing voice, beauty, talent, music !! This is my number one Viking song of all times!!!!! Thank you very much for this performance, The Pagan Minstrel !!!
It's not a Viking song. It's inspired by
I feel cold wind listening to this...
Same and I'm inside
Beautiful. Stirring. Thank you for singing it in Old Norse.
Hallo von Deutschland, Wunderschön gesungen!
As a descendant of Swedish Vikings, I love the flourishing interest in our culture and language. It is always good to be proud of your ancestors and to celebrate all cultures. I hope that through more information, we can reclaim our symbols from those who use them for hate and extremism. Scandanavian culture has always been inclusive. I adore this video. Beautifully done.
Lol your culture and people will be replaced thanks to your “inclusivity”
The video was very well done with an excellent singer. However, the rest of what you wrote you can flip 180 degrees to make it the truth. I started over ten years ago to do the Scandinavian side of my family which centers on Bornholm (Hammershus), Zealand and the Skane area and the Norge side is from Lesja and Romsdahl. My real research was sparked by surprising results from a DNA test. To make a story that's years long shortened, it turned out the Vikings were responsible for the Irish, British Isles, Finland, Sweden, and fractions in Ukraine.
When you deep dive into one group's history you always end up learning about the other tribes/people/nations/groups they brutalized, enslaved and murdered. The Vikings earned their terrible reputation as bloody killers but knowing the history of Western/Northern Europe the Vikings were not any worse than other people. Vikes just traveled MUCH more so everyone thinks of them and not the other 99% of bloody raiders roaming the continent.
The Scandinavian groups kept other peoples away from their lands. So the Nordic DNA has FAR less "inclusion" than say central Netherlands with the super highway of Europe running through it, the Rhine. Central NL was "settled" by Rome circa 50 B.C. and the next 400 years effected by people in the Roman Empire.
The only "inclusiveness" I see in Scandinavian/Viking history is to "include slaves to sell or barter, sex slaves" or to "include non-Vikings in joint invasions which actually was more of a medieval era thing to do(Hanseatic League). The Scandinavians/Vikings kept to themselves as far as peaceful activities. The resources of Scandinavia were too scarce to share with others by being "inclusive" as the mass migrations of the Cimbri and the Goths have shown.
I don't know why people want to make up and believe such incredible lies. Lies do not change the past, but if you lie about the past you're guaranteed to repeat past mistakes.
@@daneaxe6465 You are right and anyone would have known that if they watched the show Vikings. We will never know how many other countries have Viking heritage, but you missed some very well known: France, Ancient Greece and Russia. With the migration later you also have Canada and the USA added to the list. And an interesting observation is that there is almost no visual difference between the Slavs and Norse.
inclusive? wtf lol
More please vikindom music beautiful souls in the old tongue let it live on
Beautiful is the only word i can think of, got goose chills listening to best version of this song ive heard. Touched my soul
I so want to learn old Norse, it's so interesting to me. Been a fan of Norse Mythology since I found out that I'm Scandinavian on my mothers side 🤩
That gave me chills. Such a beautiful language, I can almost hear my ancestors.
What a voice ! Sounds perfect ! Thank you so much.. this music is so powerful
simply mesmerizing........many thanks for posting......"Hew many foe-men"
The best version of all times !! I salute you The Pagan Minstrel !! Thank you very much for this real Viking version !!....youre the best and your make-up looks amazing !!..You are the TRUE voices of the Vikings and Valkyries !!! Youre voice and music is great!!...with love from the Swedish Viking !!
You are very talented-love your music-Listening from USA. Thanks!!!!!
Hey, there, great performance. I’m a Canadian of Anglo-Norman descent. I’m into the Old English language and culture. Obviously, there’s a relationship there between Old English and Old Norse. As I understand it, a Saxon and a Dane, or Norse-person from 2000 years ago, could essentially have a conversation- each speaking their own language. And with a bit of finagling, actually understand one another. Both are proto-Germanic languages. The spiritual pantheon of deities is also essentially the same, with slightly different spellings, ex: Odin/Woden; or, Thor/Thyr, respectively.
So I guess this performance resonated with me on that level.
Very well done, and thank you!
Danes and Swedes can understand each other today, but words that are innocent in one language are intensely obscene in the other. If a Swede and a Dane date, their first conversation might be about the peculiarities thereof, and the humor within...
It is sad that if you found a treasure you would have to give to to Queen, whatever his name is. I am not from there.
Outstanding, young lady!
Definitely probably one of the best versions I've ever heard
I just found this and is, by far, my absolute favorite rendition of this. Bravo. I'm absolutely going to look more into your content.
I could listen to this all day. I Absolutely love this.❤
👏👏👏👏👏👏 HELL YES!!!!! That's how it's done!!! You absolutely SLAYED this song!!
My bf is Norse/vikin‘. I'm not. I‘m mixed latina, puerto Rican🇵🇷 & Bolivian🇧🇴 mixed. But, i love song & it only took me few weeks, to learn this song. 🎐Ƹ̵̡≽ܫ≼Ʒ🎐
Love this song has my sons name in it and were some of the first Scottish vikings 😍 ❤
We need more talented artists like her. Awesome voice and mind. :-)
It's so dark and lovely powerfully done
This is so beautiful. Thank you for this.
Beautiful cover of an amazing chant.
Beautifully Done!! Love the Instrumental in especially the violin.
Niesamowita głębia tych dźwięków...piekna muzyka. Pozdrowienia z Polski/ Kveðja frá Póllandi
This touches my soul to even hear it spoken out loud
Your hair is gorgeous. Such a vibrant color!
Ich liebe dieses Lied. Gesungen in einer sehr alten Sprache von einer Sängerin mit wunderschöner Stimme. Meine beiden Vornamen sind altnordisch und isländisch. Vielleicht auch ein Grund, warum diese Musik mich so sehr berührt ❤️🙋🏼♀️
One of my new favourite songs. I just found this and listened to it everyday for the past week. I actually don’t much care for the English version but this is an absolute treasure. ❤
Just the first few words and I had goosebumps ! Amazing voice
I have no idea what she’s saying but it is so eerily beautiful
Authentic girl, zero fake here! a gem on youtube, well done, congrats girl ! You deserve all the best ;)
Very cool to hear in Old Norse! In a time when everything is being lost or erased this is so well needed!
I absolutely love ❤️ 😍 💖
Thw way you sound sunging this song 🎵 😍
You are so awesome
I would love to learn Old Norse. Love this so much
Danke für dieses schöne Lied mit deiner Stimme und in der Sprache 👍
Haunting. I am at odds in finding more suited words for this version!
I love your talent and music and your beauty !!!! Youre one of a kind, keep up your great music ! I love it !!!
My favourite of all times!!...she is great and amazing at everything !!!
Thank you very much for including the lyrics in the description.
omg your voice is so wonderful to listen to in this version and I could listen to this song for hours, it so gorgeous
I started to learn icelandic. I got a fair bit of this one. Beautiful version
Så bra! That was a Hardanger fiddle too right, like the ones I had seen in the north while visiting my Sami heritage. So much fun! I will continue to enjoy. Ha det bra.😊
I'm glad this was told in our real language. You have earned a new subscriber.
a beautiful voice In a language that few people can speak well that opens up a very soothing and mind-loving vocal and musical garden that the Norse gods may support you for your art
Language of my blood❤❤❤
Love that
...Absolutely Enchanting!
Wow! I love this song also you´r voice and how you performed this song. It´s so amazing. Thanks! 😍
Love this kind of music, ashame very few song noasday like this with passion and meaning of timeless traditions.
The Icelandic language is so powerful!! That sounds like real Viking-language! With love from the Swedish Viking ! A great performance, thank you !!
Such a great job with the music can hearing every word clearly keep up the great work
I love this type of music. from 🇲🇦😍
Your voice and music speaks to my history and my ancestors!...i love your voice and music and your beauty!!...youre a Vikings dream!! Your music is magig and very good !! I salute you and wish you all the best !!!
Awesome, I hope you come here to Sweden on tour someday.
Such talent!!!! Such a beautiful voice!!! Its obvious that you're vocal talents were made for this song, your skills with a violin is amazing as well, i would love to learn how to play the violin again.
Finalmente un’altro musicista che ha deciso di fare la versione originale. Con molto contento del contenuto.
This song has an immensely powerful effect on me, considering I was born disabled with a mobility impairment, cerebral palsy. Naturally, I tend to wish that I could walk without support, run without support, or that I could make trips without assistance.
Uau! That's unique! Great job, Dani! To hear this in its own language is something else!
Keep up the great work!
Nice song , Greetings from the Mexico.
This song will forever be in my heart !!! The Pagan Minstrel makes the music so amazing, and the lyrics so alive!...this song and music really touches my heart!....its sooo beautiful and emotionell and powerful!!!. Thank you so much for this amazing version !!!
The best and in old Norse awesome
Beautiful. Thanks for playing this.
First 30 sec was enought to give sub and have sure i will stay longer. That how u doing this is amazing
This music is *MOVING* and beautiful! It had me stomping my foot with the rhythm of the song! Viking music is *AWESOME!!!*
It’s cool how there are still ancient Germanic and Norse words in modern Germanic languages,for example in Dutch “buy” it’s “kopen” which in old Norse is “kaupa” and in danish it is “at Køber”
So does Copenhagen translate to the merchants home or house of buying etc? (Legitimate question)
@@ADT1995 Copenhagen is in Danish København, where you can't see the original components of the name anymore. In Icelandic, on the other hand, it is called Kaupmannahöfn, which translates of harbour (höfn) of the merchants (kaupmenn, literally buy-men).
@Triangull689 In german Kaufen/Kaufmann and Kaupmannahöfen would be Kaufmannshafen. very often when i read old nordic or scandinavian/dutch song names, i understand it immediately because the german word is very similar or even the same. sometimes it shocks me how similar germanic languages still are after such a long time
In Estonian "kaup"/"kaupa" can be translated as goods or things you can buy, probably because of old Viking times the word has stuck
In Finnish kauppa means shop ^^ not same language family but some words still get loaned.
It resonates on levels i only have in my blood. Its felt & acknowledged. Ancient kin & forgotten tongues aside. Its felt.....
Something about the eye makeup just makes my brain go into the clouds.
Beautiful
I love music more, thanks to you.
Beautiful cover, Dani!! Sounds and looks awesome! 👏 😍
Thank you so much! Would love to see your take on this one 💚
So beautiful in old norse!! 😮😍 congratulations! 👏👏
You look so cool with the light make up!
I like everything about this video 👍🏻
Wow....................................................... Thank You!
Amazing song . And in old Norse as well makes it even more special. 👏🏻
Beautiful woman, beautiful voice.
Ein Super-Stück. Läuft.
Clearly THE BEST !!! The best artist and musician !! And her beauty is as amazing as her singing and music !! Thank you very much for this masterpiece, The Pagan Minstrel !!
Beautiful song and her
Beatifull woman wow O.o
New to me but hey! Mind blowing keep up the good work 👏👏🌹🌟
great!!