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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2013
- Great news, everyone! This year, 2024, we will be releasing a full album with only Icelandic hymns and choir pieces like this one! The album will be released in November. Follow us on our socials for more information!
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Video description:
The hymn "Heyr, himna smiður" was written by the Icelandic viking Kolbeinn Tumason in 1208. The music was composed in the 1970s by Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson (1938-2013), one of Iceland's foremost contemporary composers.
We performed this impromptu at the train station in Wuppertal, Germany, on September 15, 2013. We had just finished playing a regular concert in an adjacent music venue and we're hanging out with our listeners after the show when we discovered the amazing acoustics inside the train station hall. Our friend Linda Iliste spontaneously recorded this on her camera, and we're very happy she did!
To buy the sheet music: goo.gl/mZRSti
Lyrics:
Heyr, himna smiður,
hvers skáldið biður.
Komi mjúk til mín
miskunnin þín.
Því heit eg á þig,
þú hefur skaptan mig.
Eg er þrællinn þinn,
þú ert drottinn minn.
Guð, heit eg á þig,
að þú græðir mig.
Minnst þú, mildingur, mín,
mest þurfum þín.
Ryð þú, röðla gramur,
ríklyndur og framur,
hölds hverri sorg
úr hjartaborg.
Gæt þú, mildingur, mín,
mest þurfum þín,
helzt hverja stund
á hölda grund.
Send þú, meyjar mögur,
málsefnin fögur,
öll er hjálp af þér,
í hjarta mér. - เพลง
Please don't ever take this video down. I come and listen to this so often when in need.
Same. Since they put it up I've watched it about a hundred times.
Same its beautiful
Me, too. I found this just before my mom went into hospice care. It brings chills to my spine and a gentle smile to my mouth. ♥️
🙏🙏🙏 my too homie
Same, every year I'm here.
The quality of the recording does not do this justice, but at the same time I find myself relieved and grateful that this was recorded in the first place.
+TraustiGeir I agree. It would be better if they just left the camera on a tripod, sorry to say :P
+TraustiGeir This song is recorded now with Árstíðir and Anneke van Giersbergen.
www.annekevangiersbergen.com/product/pre-order-verloren-verleden-anneke-arstidir-signed/
open.spotify.com/track/3rMVYq6o6KVCOG8HUL7Es1
I actually kinda like the extreme, distorted echo this has. Makes it feel like you're hearing the call of a performance off in the distance. :)
it gives the song a strange aura...loved it!
Still coming back to this 7 years later because it genuinely captured something magical.
Yep same here
Same here. I just thought of this video while eating breakfast and just had to go back and find it. I’m glad it’s still here. It’s beautiful.
Interesting how people just forget whatever they were busy with and stop to listen them sing.
It’s nearing the end of 2023 and this video still gives me the same feeling it once did, many years ago! Something about listening to this just brings me peace ❤️
I love the guy who pauses drinking his beer to bring glorious music to all these people in transit. Then, once all is said and sung, goes back to drinking his beer.
The music is so good, he even stops drinking.
Some heroes don’t wear capes.
Some heroes drink beer.
Some heroes sing.
I think this is the first time I find the Heilung's (Nordic group) video with English subtitles. :))
Although it is not such a peaceful music as this, I strongly recommend that you check this one too:
th-cam.com/video/zeP2q4YAIXA/w-d-xo.html
That's the Bass. Delightfully, rather par for the course.
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the fact THAT he can sing this gloriously while drinking? 🤗
Now I know what it's like to live in the year 1214. Depressing, shoeless but hauntingly beautiful.
how does listening to 1 song make you know what its like to live in a certain time
excluding we didnt start the fire
FYI: "The music was composed in the 1970s by Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson"
No way to know how "haunting" it might have been from this video.
420 MC HD PVP 1337 While its probably not safe to assume everything off of a single song it isn't exactly wrong to judge some of it. Today our Pop music is energetic and happy, So he assumed that based off of this it could have been gloomy.. Which in 13th century Iceland, That fits the picture.
420 MC HD PVP 1337 Do you take every comment on youtube literally? I was being cavalier.
Zaperman our pop music is energetic, alcoholic, and makes me want to abuse woman. wish i could see what people from the year 3145 will think of us. "i wonder what 'bottles in da club and [bleep] these bitches' mean...."
This hymn was written by Kolbeinn Tumason in 1208 before The Battle of Víðanes where he died. And one of the amazing things is that the words have remained pretty much the same sinch it's conception.
swordmanegill woah 😲
That is both beautiful and heartbreaking
Natalie 1234 The music is a 20th century piece, it's just the words they're referring to.
swordmanegill Thanks for that historical note.
If someone can translate this beautiful song
I would have missed my train to finish listening to this
Any day of the week, and twice on sunday.
I was thinking the same. There will be another train, but you'll never have this opportunity again.
I think this is the first time I find the Heilung's (Nordic group) video with English subtitles. :))
Although it is not such a peaceful music as this, I strongly recommend that you check this one too:
th-cam.com/video/zeP2q4YAIXA/w-d-xo.html
Me too!!
In Germany, the trains are most likely to be late anyway
who ever is singing bass is a freaking god
I think its the guy holding a beer
It is.
Yes and he is my son!
Congratulations! You can be very proud.
This! He made me want to listen to almighty Pasjukov again: th-cam.com/video/sN4TbjI4F74/w-d-xo.html
The reverb of that train station is epic
Also one of them isnt wearing shoes
Shaun Luxon i was just gonna say that! the whole time i was wondering why the hell is this guy barefoot in a train station.
dave duggan Can't forget about the beer guy.
Shaun Luxon the barefoot one is risking a fine from the Occupational Health and Safety committee.
Colin Rowley Three things. 1) OSHA only regulates employees. As they're clearly not employed by the transit system there, OSHA wouldn't touch them. 2) This is in Germany, so OSHA doesn't even apply. 3) It's totally not illegal to go barefoot in public places, in the States OR in Germany. I say this as someone who goes barefoot pretty much all the time and has done his research into the matter. /soapbox
Hands down, unequivocally, one of the all time greatest videos ever uploaded to the internet.
Despite the imperfect fidelity, it captures the weight and meaningfulness to the point that you could show this video to literally any human on earth and they would be moved by it.
1000% Absolutely!
Well put. Even the background "noise" elevates it and adds to the ambience.
I so agree!!❤
imperfect fidelity.
who talks like that......
It’s 2022 and I still come back to listen to this ethereal magnificence.
Me too it just entered my brain again
I stood a few meters beside them. After their concert in Kulturbahnhof Vohwinkel-Wuppertal (Germany). Besides the birth of my kids, marriage and that day I got my Gibson Firebird it was one of the most beautifult moments in my life. It sounded so fantastic. I never miss them, when they perform near my town.
The Echo made it sound so much better
Goddamnit, Wuppertal isn't that far from me. Catching a magical moment like that coincidentally must be incredible. The only thing that's keeping me from moping about having missed it is that I wasn't even in the country at that time.
I think this is the first time I find the Heilung's (Nordic group) video with English subtitles. :))
Although it is not such a peaceful music as this, I strongly recommend that you check this one too:
th-cam.com/video/zeP2q4YAIXA/w-d-xo.html
That’s so moving 🤍
I can't believe I've watched this 3.9 million times
do you get a little teary sometimes, watching or listening to it? you watched 3.9 million times? I don't think you're obesessed but human with with soul. i think you have several million more views/listens before it is equalled or surpassed.
tactteam00 3.38min * 60 = 202.8 seconds
202.8sec * 3,900,000 times = 790,920,000 seconds
790,920,000 seconds / 60 = 13,182,000 minutes
13,182,000 minutes / 60 = 219,700 hours
219,700 hours / 24 = 9154.16 days
9154.16 days / 365 = 25.079 years
This video was uploaded on 16th September 2013 which was:
1 year 7 months 5 days ago.
You've apparently been watching this video for just over 25 years straight; I think someone is lying. You sack of shit ;)
Chris Young Or he has many computers :D.
Chris Young
(3min*60)+38sec=218
218(3,900,000views)=850,200,000sec
850,200,000sec(1min/60sec)=14,170,000min
14,170,000min(1hour/60min)=236166.66hours
236166.66hours(1day/24hours)=9840.278days
9840.278days(1year/365days)=26.96 years
tactteam00 It's not possible that you watched it that many times. I don't believe you.
English translation (roughly)
Listen, smith of the heavens,
what the poet asks.
May softly come unto me
your mercy.
So I call on thee,
for you have created me.
I am thy slave,
you are my Lord.
God, I call on thee to heal me.
Remember me, mild one,
Most we need thee.
Drive out, O king of suns,
generous and great,
every human sorrow
from the city of the heart.
Watch over me, mild one,
Most we need thee,
truly every moment
in the world of men.
send us, son of the virgin,
good causes,
all aid is from thee,
in my heart.
same we hv in islam except for son of the God part .
Scudd Kidd we believe Jesus (Isa) is son of a virgin Mary (Meryem) too man
Crimsonguard Gaming oh sry i mean to write god , so i wrote virgin ^^
Even reading the lyrics gives me the shivers. Wonderful song.
That is the most hilariously agressive call to peace I have ever read.
Dude 1: Here is a translation to english of this religious hymn!
Dude 2: We have a very similar hymn in another religion, except like two lines are different
Dude 3: Nah man it's those other two words that are different
Dude 2: Oh, you're right, my bad
Dude 4: You better make sure you keep those two lines of text on a different continent from me! Or else war! See how easy peace is?
2024, years later i come back with more apprecoation for the history, the language, the vocals, and the accoustics!
And then I'm struck dumb by the beauty all over again.
Do you see how they step apart and widen their circle? They're so attuned to how it shapes sound that they know how far apart they need to be to control the outcome of their song at that moment in time. It's like an organic resonance knob.
It also has a lot to do with listening to other parts and matching vowel tonality and tempo management
Organic Resonance Knob is the name of my new band
Yeah whenever I step back to let someone in the circle it's because of acoustics :P
@@ocircles738 Hahaha seriously what are these fools talking about.
I think this is the first time I find the Heilung's (Nordic group) video with English subtitles. :))
Although it is not such a peaceful music as this, I strongly recommend that you check this one too:
th-cam.com/video/zeP2q4YAIXA/w-d-xo.html
Doctor: You have 3 minutes and 38 seconds left to live.
Me: Play this song.
Stella Wimmer you DONT know what a good choice you made. It’s total submission and trust to God. 🙏🏻
@@o.aldenproductions.9858 What?
@@fjalls The lyrics are actually a prayer to God.
@@josuecezar i know
@@o.aldenproductions.9858 You don't happen to know what it means in English, do you?
10 seconds in and I have tears streaming down my face... I have no Icelandic blood in my body... but my soul instantly connected to this.. simply, wow.
The first time I heard them sing this 7 years ago it always made me feel as if I was transported thru time back at my ancestors castle with the monks singing as they moved through the halls.
Not the same, but there's an A capella of Bon Iver - Heavenly father - live in Australia. I'm not even religious, but that song has that amazing purity like this.
If you're Irish or Welsh you probably have kin in Iceland. The Norwegians took so many Irish and Britons as slaves that essentially they are the dominant genes in Iceland.
I came across this divine performance while reading an article about the experience of frisson (chills, goosebumps, crying) from listening to music. I can't think of a more perfect example. After listening to this a bazillion times, I'm beginning to think the most beautiful part of this video is that holy silence of a few seconds at the end of the hymn. I'm picturing the people standing there, letting the experience wash over them and not wanting to ruin the moment with applauding.
Indeed. I started to listen and my whole body was full of goosebumps and tears were in my eyes
@@ricciwombat2554 I have the same experience. So unbelievably moving!
Few songs have the power to move me in such a powerful way.
+Gen Speaking Ancient Christian song.
+88pie88 - The poem is from the 1200s. The song is from the 20th century.
+Gen Speaking Thomas Tallis has similar works.
I think this is the first time I find the Heilung's (Nordic band) video with English subtitles. :))
Although it is not such a peaceful music as this, I strongly recommend that you check this one too:
th-cam.com/video/zeP2q4YAIXA/w-d-xo.html
I can now play this on repeat on my mobile now.
I find it's one of the few things that can send me off to sleep.
I never tire of it.
Thank you.
Listen some Pahadi beats from India and enjoy dancing with them..... Love you
I think this is the first time I find the Heilung's (Nordic group) video with English subtitles. :))
Although it is not such a peaceful music as this, I strongly recommend that you check this one too:
th-cam.com/video/zeP2q4YAIXA/w-d-xo.html
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Holy shit, this is absolutely amazing
Yes
lmao i am here because of your comment at the sax battle video
@@alexsnipez427 Same. 😂
I’m here because of you good sir thank you for showing me this masterpiece
OK by this point I'm sure I'm stalking you on accident
Even among all the cute animal videos and whatever - this is probably my favorite thing TH-cam ever produced, dead serious.
Me too.
I’m inclined to agree.
It's in my top 10 for sure.
I watch this like 8 times a week
agreed.
You hear the crackle in the video, the telltale sign of bad recording device? Even with that, this song is beautiful, and brought me to tears. Now imagine actually being in the room hearing that.
Barefoot Billy is killin it
Drunken Danny with the wine too!
Let us not forget V-neck Vinnie
Justin Callendar
these names are not Icelandic at all!
Or Wille Walk-In who was late.
back-hand philly doesn't need to hide either
I find the imperfection of the sound quality is what makes it perfect. It's been about 5 years since I discovered this piece and I have never found anything that can replace this until this day.
This is still the best version of this song I’ve ever heard. It’s not just the acoustics, it’s their impeccable timing. Nobody is early or lagging behind. They are all singing in perfect synchronization.
I also like that the voices sometimes seem to keep going for a long time, instead of pausing between each stanza.
The harmonies are perfect, especially the part where the tenor sings and the rest are just “ooooo” so you can clearly hear his words.
God it’s just so glorious.
Translation:
Hear creator of the heavens
what the poet begs.
Come softly to me
your mercy.
I trust in you,
you have created me.
I am your servant
you are my lord.
God, I trust in you
to heal me.
For the least, my king,
we need you the most.
Take, my God,
so powerful and inquisitive,
the sorrow out of our hearts.
My king, watch over me,
we need you the most.
For every moment
to hold ground.
Set the son of a maiden,
a beautiful matter.
All the help from you
in my heart.
This is written in a very violent time in the Sturlunga-age in Iceland. A few families were having disagreements over power and the man who wrote this poem was a member of one of those families. He was in the Ásbirninga family and his name was Kolbeinn Tumason. It is said that he wrote this just prior to "Víðinesbardagi", a battle in 1208. He said this poem over and over, so often that the people around him memorized it.
you just made my day awesome
It is remarkable how parts of history is remembered throughout the centuries... thank you for this, you have also made my day more awesome.
"a few families were having disagreements" so like, all four families living in Iceland at the time?
A bit more than that. The families' names were Sturlungar, Haukdælir, Oddverjar, Svínfellingar, Ásbirningar, Vatnsfirðingar, Seldælir and more. They were more like political clans rather than "families", since a lot/most of them were not related.
chill man, it was a joke
Every time I come upon this video, I forget to breathe until the song is done. It takes my breathe away and brings me to tears... and I enjoy every note. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Yeah, i listen to this song every couple of weeks just to get that dose of dopamine. Gotta love it when a song gives you that full body tingle and leaves you with a head high.
Literally the reason why I'm trying to learn Icelandic. Greetings from Sweden
I am trying to learn it as well. I am American snd speak (mostly) just English.
I think this is the first time I find the Heilung's (Nordic band) video with English subtitles. :))
Although it is not such a peaceful music as this, I strongly recommend that you check this one too:
th-cam.com/video/zeP2q4YAIXA/w-d-xo.html
Greetings from iceland
Never heard an Icelandic song before in my life. :)So...THIS is what Icelandic sounds like ?Wow. Simply beautiful. :D
Applause and hugs fra Japan
Sakura
I will NEVER understand how almost 600 people chose to "dislike" this mind-blowing performance. I come back to this video countless times to re-experience it, thank you Arstidir for sharing your wonderful talent. I listen to your albums and your music is stunning!!
Thanks every one for checking out our impromptu performance. At the time of writing (October 8 2021) we're doing a crowdfunding for our new albums. Our stretch goal is to record an a cappella EP with songs in the spirit of this song: www.arstidir.com/crowdfunding
So beautiful.
This still gives me chills.
Absolutely beautiful.
Would you please record songs like these in a space like a church and then sell it? I would buy 3
You should have gone back with professional recording equipment to capture the magic of your voices and this place. The accoustics are better than any of your other recordings of this hymn.
Simply beautiful. First heard this 3 years ago and I revisit it every 6 months or so. Brings me to tears everytime. Thank you.
Can you guys please do this hymn again with this amazing acoustics but in higher quality it is almost like you were given your amazing voices to sing this prayer it cuts through my soul and brings forth tears of untold joy. Thank you for sharing your work with the rest of the world regards from South Africa
At first, I thought that the recording of this in a train station and a train arriving while they were singing was most inopportune. But now that I think about it, it is all so perfect. I hear the alarm of the train arriving so I know that it's there, I'm brought into the moment: these guys are singing a solemn hymn in a train station. But instead of stopping to let the distractions pass, they just keep singing through them and as they hit the third verse, this amazing thing happens. They start to grow louder and louder until they converge at this chord which is so powerful and dissonant and climactic that it is louder than all of the distracting sounds of the train and the station! They convey this huge amount of feeling and emotion and awe. It's as if everyone in the station just freezes and listens to that huge moment of perseverance and love and really really respects and harmonizes with it. I get chills every time.
i could not find the words for this myself, yessssss. it’s overwhelming with this peaceful power
It’s a truly holy moment. Transporting and transforming.
Holy snap crackle pop...That was flippin beautiful.
I wanted to cry a bit by how much they were in sync and
the tone of many peoples voices sounding so good together.
I have no idea to this day what those six icelandic guys were singing about. Truth is, I don't wanna know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you those voices soared, higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last person on TH-cam felt free.
shut up. "so beautiful it can't be expressed in words"? they're singing in a language that is known to them, they know the words you do not. look up a translation it's not some mystery you'll never be able to solve.
I'll put 10 dollars on that tall drink of water over there!
Connar Floyd my post is a paraphrase from The Shawshank redemption.
"Heyr himna smiður" would be translated: "hear me oh creator of the heavens" or "hear me oh creator in the heavens", and that's a translation based on the meaning of the hymn. A direct translation would be "hear heavens carpenter" which sounds weird.
Aron Brynjolfsson Wasn't Jesus a carpenter? Or was that Noah? I can never remember.
Literally the most angelic singing I have ever heard.
I’m crying…this music opens the gates to infinity
That was hauntingly beautiful.
I think this is the first time I find the Heilung's (Nordic band) video with English subtitles. :))
Although it is not such a peaceful music as this, I strongly recommend that you check this one too:
th-cam.com/video/zeP2q4YAIXA/w-d-xo.html
I think sometimes we forget the true beauty of music our ancestors once made because of all the music we get today, it just soaks into us and, from one perspective, poison our hearts and make us forget how elegant and beautiful music can be.
Burns The poem is about 800 years old but the song is from the '70
100 % agree god bless
+torgeirz Sounds like a Christian music scale.
levlobotomy Well the poem was written by a preacher dude in Iceland before his untimely death, something along those lines.
+Burns thanks for the background
This is probably my favourite video on youtube.
The bass is mind blowingly divine. And I don't see a woman which means the soprano parts were sung by a man. Truly enchanting!
The main melody was sung by the guy one in from the left, I believe.
You just can't simply describe this with words. You feel it and it speaks to you on an ethereal level. This is how you use reverb to maximum effect!
I agree! The acoustics in that station were akin to a cathedral's! And the music is thus made more stunning, I think. I could just see in my mind the beauty of Iceland (based on pictures I've seen), and my soul just soared with those harmonies!
I listen to this when I'm having a panic attack, works faster and better than any drug I've tried. Literally got me through Freshman year.
I had goosebumps the whole time.
Impossible to listen to without tears springing to the eyes
This gives me chills.
Because you can feel the God's presence in your body. :)
No, because its beautiful music.
This must be what the play in heaven. Sooo refreshing.
+Sideshow Bob Not heaven, Valhalla.
+Gen Speaking This is a Christian song though.
ConfrontationalRealist I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment.
+KamikazethecatII you said the words it's a Christian, that's all an islamaphobe needs to spout nonsense
+KamikazethecatII It was irrelevant yes, but he's not wrong though. Rip Europe.
its been years and i still cant get enough of this
This is one of the few videos I find myself coming back year after year.
Never gets old, the chills are still here.
Yep, here as well. Didn't have this video in my favorites and didn't know what they sung about. Only giving in 'choir singing' in the search bar provided how strong the algorithm behind TH-cam is. It immediately put 'icelandic hymn in train station' behind it. Glad I found it again after a few years. Going to play it for the 5th time and then to got bed happily ;)
..Still
Oh my god, that bass is AMAZING. And the phenomenal acoustics of this station could NOT have been better for this song!
that's the longest time I can remember experiencing continuous goosebumps. I'm a grown-ass man and this is bringing me to tears
I come back often and it still gives me the goosebumps
It's such a terrible shame Jón Elísson left the band. He has the most angelic soprano voice and he really fit the spirit of the band. I have tried to find if he has solo material but haven't bumped into any. I so wish he would one day come back, being that his solo-part in this train station video is most soul moving, and it's him who also sings in the epic-sounding song "Tárin", as well as "Til Hennar" and "Á meðan jörðin sefur". His voice generally goes perfectly with violins and cello and of course the lower, harmonic voices of the rest of the band.
agree
Is that the guy on the left?
@@Shamir1515 Yeah, he is the one on the left who sings soprano
Who is the bass with the beer on the right?
@@PeteXcore5 It's Hallgrímur Jónas Jensson
this is beyond outstanding!..
I salute you all the way from Syria
The bass/baritone is truly incredible. I close my eyes, breathe deeply, and just feel this music.
When I hear this I can hear them singing. Eight hundred years ago and calling out and here their voices can be heard again. Humanities echo through time.
I know part of the beauty of this in its impromptu performance, but I would love a studio recording of this song. I'd probably pay ten dollars for just this song. Beautiful work, Árstíðir!
+handicappedhero This song is recorded now with Árstíðir and Anneke van Giersbergen.
www.annekevangiersbergen.com/product/pre-order-verloren-verleden-anneke-arstidir-signed/
+Arstidir Thank you for your direct response. After learning the lyrics and having a playcount of +310, preordering was an easy decision. (:
I'm not religious in any sense, quite the opposite. But this makes me feel safe and comforted, and for these few minutes I believe in a Heaven.
mamaligakiller Okay.
mamaligakiller I think your too closed minded and can't see how others do.
Joshua Miller No, "you're" "close-minded" and there's room for all people to believe whatever they want to believe. Before passing judgment on others, the least you can do is to acquire a better grasp of the English language. Good luck with your remedial education and I hope you get your GED.
True. People need to realise that being atheist doesn't mean you have to view the world as a bleak, cold, hard place.
TheCreativeNuisance that's your argument? You can do better.
I have to come back now and then to listen to this. Yes, as mentioned, the "recording quality" is not like in a studio, but that speaks even more for the performance: Despite being recorded on a smartphone (one presumes?), it brings shiver and awe to so those - for now - 7 million views of this video.
Árstíðir - this is probably the best advertisement for your band ever. And for Iceland, for that sake.
Godspeed.
... and now I will go there, on 07 Aug 2023, for the 10 year concert. Very excited about what it will amount to. I realise it can never be the same, but I keep an open mind about it. Can't wait!
Still coming back to this after so many years... ❤
This is so beautiful. I literally felt this song enter my heart and I found myself weeping while listening to it. Music has never had that effect on me before. Thank you.
I feel the same way. I think this song gives me the feeling that GOD lives in my soul.
Same with me!
Oh wow, the acoustics in there must be amazing. I'm having chills.
This still gets me and I've lost count of how many times I've watched / listened to it. Gorgeous. Thank you.
This is beyond
I have goosebumps on my goosebumps. This is absolutely moving and amazing. Thank you.
I like how the guy on the right casually holds the beer and after the song he sips it like a boss. :D
Brilliant performance.
This is the best rendition of this song I can find. And I think it’s because of the incredible echoing. I think this is how these type of songs were meant to be sung. And the less than crisp quality of the recording makes it sound old, which makes me feel like I’ve gone back in time to listen to ancients singing. I wish I could have been present while they sang this.
THIS is pure soul. You can hear the history, Joy, hardships, love, pain and warrior’s heart in this. Beautiful
I randomly came across this video and wow.... out of nowhere I started to feel so much emotions, tears started to form in my eyes. I couldn't stop crying. anyways thank you for this beautiful video. a song has never don't that to me before that quick. the power of old pure music is we're the heart and soul is!
The chills this piece of art gives me... almost dying of hyperthermia...
What a power this music has...NO words...just none...
Incredible how everyone around them just stops what their doing and starts to listen
So the second I die and my soul leaves my body this is what I hope to hear as I'm bathed with infinite love:)
Hail Satan
Ashton Brown is wrong, this was written by an Icelandic christian chieftain, Kolbeinn Tumason, back in the 12th century. He didn't write it as he died, the story says he wrote it in the days leading up to the battle, in desperation for protection and perhaps in anticipation of his fate. He died in the battle, having his head bashed in with a rock and the hymn was preserved through the ages until Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson wrote the song to accompany it over 700 years later.
The song itself is about 40 years old but the poem was written by Kolbeinn Tumason on the morning of his final battle. He died later that day during the battle when a stone was thrown into his head. This was in the year 1208, more than 200 years after Iceland was christianized, so the there is no chance he was writing a poet about Valhalla or the old norse gods. In fact the poem is an ode to god, he's in fact seeking assurance and asking for protection from god in the battle to come. But god didn't want any of it, appearantly.
Sindri Þór Sverrisson As far as I can tell, the man was pleading for mercy and for God to be with him right? So maybe God heard his prayer and mercifully brought him into heavenly bliss. Just because he was praying to God before a battle does not mean that he was praying to live through it, as we might expect in modern times...
Steven Kimble S. That's high praise. I hope you do hear it.
this is the most beautiful song ive ever heard.
Still listen to this regularly over the last 10 years or so, the acoustics make this sound even more powerful
The magic of this performance transcends the quality of the recording. I find myself revisiting this video years later. Well done gentlemen.
Legends of our past, you are not forgotten.
It is 2016 and I am still watching this .
+jan8919 It is 2016 and we Icelanders are still singing this after 700 years.
That's good . It is a beautiful thing holding on to tradition in your culture , let's hope it stays for many more centuries to come !
Me too, still listening/watching, I like this version the best. I've heard the other recording). Can't stop listening, actually!
please fuck off.
Are you ok , how are you feeling ?
Iceland is a mystical land that is full of amazing scenery, art and music. From Björk to múm to sigur Ros to solstafir... The list is endless. Johann johannsson... The people of Iceland are so beautiful and talented. Thank you
I'm not the only one who cried right?
No you are not. ❤️
i cried bc it was played at my dads funeral
@@agust8474 I’m sorry for your loss, I hope the song is comforting
Nope.
This is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in my life.
every now and then I come back to this. blows my mind everytime.
Same, it blows my mind every time I listen to it, again. And it will probably do it again next time too :)
10 years after this was uploaded and I still come and watch it and feel so much. What an incredibly spiritual piece, and what a stunning rendition. Still my favourite. ❤️
I am still here listening after all these years.
I've listened to a few different performances of this song, and I must say that this performance so far has the most feeling and sounds the best.
I'm so happy that this picked up in popularity again! Arstidir are such an amazing band, they're one of my favourites now after discovering them last year through this video.
Almost a decade later and I'm still amazed. Not only are they an amazing chior, the reverb of the station really puts this piece in its place 👌
YES! That's whats amazing! They recognized and took advantage of the acoustics and the reverb of this train station to do this impromptu!
2024 and I still come back to listen to this every now and then when times get tough again and I need grounding. Very few videos do that the way this one does. If you're here because you're having a hard time too, I feel you and I hear you. It will get better. ❤
im sure it sounds 10x better actually being there.
Rarely does a song pluck at the heartstrings like this. goosebumps, tears and utter enjoyment. Singing it 'a capella' like this with the train station noises in the background, is spine chillingly haunting.
If the Library of Congress selected TH-cam videos for preservation, this would be the first
So freaking beautyful, transcendental, heavenly
This has to be the most beautiful song I have ever heard in my life. Train stations are amazing for Chamber choir music, you get such a beautiful echo.
2021 here..whenever this sublime video pops up I drop whatever I'm doing..Absolutely otherworldly and divine 🌹🌻🧙♂️
When I hear this, I often think of a friend of mine who passed away two years ago. A martial artist, stunt coordinator, movement artist and therapist, at the end, Bob knew he faced the Eternal. Like the king who composed this hymn, he needed and wanted aid from heaven. I hope he found his rest instead. Thank you for capturing this moment - I almost can't listen to any other recording, this was so spontaneous and so perfect.
The solemnity of their sound is very inspiring and the fact that they're all relatively young speaks well of their respect to ancestral sounds. Very impressive and reverential.