Anglo Saxon song thuner biad by Aelfric

[paprika]

it's amazing knowing how long ago this song is from and that it's being brought back to life

your thoughts?

[frankhammer]

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The music of pre-conversion England and Old Frisia, eerily evocative in it's ability to speak to some long-lost yet never forgotten depth of the folk soul. Ancient and new compositions by various galdormen. The vocals are poems/songs in the Anglo-Saxon language accompanied by the Anglo-Saxon harp, penny whistle, drum and other instruments. Songs of the Elder Trow (1998)

Smithe in smithem isern smitand, (Smiths in smithies iron smiting)
Hit werthath warm brond burnand, (Grows it hot, fires burning)
Erme sterkath, stifna kaltiand: (Arms strengthen, voices calling)
'Hal thu Thuner, homerhaldand!' ('Hail thou Thunor, hammer holding!)

Ekkera bura, thorstiche, stuviche, (Farmers' fields, thirsty, dusty,)
Fretlike zerle, benmithiche, (Fretful churls, bone-weary,)
Kinda ondleta, herda, hungriche, (Children's faces, hard, hungry,)
'Hal thu Thuner, triowewerthich!' ('Hail thou Thunor, trustworthy!')

In threthhamum thawlika, ezenhringida, (In Thryth-home thewsome, oaken-ringed)
Thuner Almechticha, unbeid, unbrezen, (Thunor Almighty, unbowed, unbroken)
Erthe sunu radieth reinwolken, (Earth's son readies rainclouds)
Homer klinnand, blixen liachtand. (Hammering ringing, lightning flashing)

Thiu triowe hi haldeth is isern, ezen, (The troth he keeps is iron, oaken,)
Ethe send wichtiche, mein is mechtich (Oaths are weighty, main is mighty,)
Mod is mizil to monnum bisitta (Mood is much to men beset,)
Sa anskir tha tiaga ond wes forthfarand! (So gear the goats and be forthfaring!)

[♥ Lily ♥]

It sounds nice... I like it.

[paprika]

old english sounds so different but that's part of what makes it interesting. more interesting yet is that it is a morphologically synthetic language like german, russian, latin, and all the old indo-european langages, it's changed so much over the centuries it's remarkable