Danish music

[Sveta]

That's the way to have an eargasm.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBQGmFeO_0I

[Merida]

Nice! :)

[CordedWhelp]

Just within the last couple months I've discovered some of Kvamm's works. Fairly Atlantid tinged Dane, there. Kind of an under-stated phenotype in southern Scandinavia. Interesting how north Germans don't seem to have it too much.

[Aviator]

It's always nice to see modern artists incorporating orchestral sounds in their music.

[Sveta]

Just within the last couple months I've discovered some of Kvamm's works. Fairly Atlantid tinged Dane, there. Kind of an under-stated phenotype in southern Scandinavia. Interesting how north Germans don't seem to have it too much.

Atlantid dominated dark Danes like Kvamm exist in decent amounts. Do you have a theory regarding north Germans not having it too much?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xO0lxh29Eo

[CordedWhelp]

Atlantid dominated dark Danes like Kvamm exist in decent amounts. Do you have a theory regarding north Germans not having it too much?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xO0lxh29Eo

It Seems that it's north Jutlanders and some islanders who have most of the Atlanto-Danes. Years past, these would be a tad more isolated than say, areas in or right around Hamburg. Maybe a matter of just some genes getting diluted more here, and preserved better there.

[billiefan2000]

Soluna Samay (had a number 1 song in Denmark a few years ago)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKWvUEY8pPA

[Aldaris]

One guy from Pegboard nerds is danish.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49dpHGoaBrA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWDnwTsdtaw

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/7wmbt8DLaqk

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/OUVpU7QPp2o

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/VVVvWS1Cszw

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/3_bt4gJR_f8

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/1vjc7XNeHrc

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/uabDFDmxaNk

[Satem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHuWj6ycquQ

[Satem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFrdmlPvxC8

[Wild North]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF-jgV3EuIY

[Wild North]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkCbGH7DqcU



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjpzlCSYRvY

[Wild North]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5MPeuF7F0w

[Wild North]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26e6tnz8lyI

[Skjaldemjøden]

Where the heck is Kim Larsen?

[billErobreren]

D'aww
Min barndoms soundtrack, glædelig gamle dage!
kys, kys, kys mig væk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzTSgOv_Wdk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ustwib7rb4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHsQ0xNAlmE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNAhuyZTZb8
I recall being called the love child of Laban by a family member. God, did that piss me off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lSpqxq57Rk

[billErobreren]

Where the heck is Kim Larsen?

Got ya covered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBeni3L7Gg

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/gQ5ZWxsjDKQ

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/bsjvnDcocJc

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/F6GM1ojPGtc

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/J7O5kf1jbfo

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/M9cNZQIzShc

[Art23]

2011 but still good


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_nGiOlEiI

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/p29E6l60xJQ

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/Jaq7ShTzVSs

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/32kYH6XZrIo

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/p42N_8hasTQ

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/T8oE66UvOPk

[Finnish Swede]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcJJvRenq5w&list=PLE3l-USWJNwuA0e7VAV0wVJ35481shll0&index=2

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/Vrh2HCz34QQ

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/8lG9l1btdC0

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/p1SYw_Ayyn4

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/yIIgk4M0jxg

[Daco Celtic]

https://youtu.be/DT1NJwEi6nw

[happycow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWpEVycueSY

[happycow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5aIM0kCros

[hussein khan]

Huh….didnt knew people like Danish music.

But some of it does sound nice i guess...

[happycow]

Huh….didnt knew people like Danish music.

But some of it does sound nice i guess...

What's your preference in music? Lots of good rock music came out of Denmark.

[The Lawspeaker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibgOC4RJVs

[Finnish Swede]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=iCgxT6ZNVYg
My favorite Danish TV-serie...

PS: As I'm soon moving to Scania https://forums.skadi.net/images/smilies/fs.gif ... for some time ... I'm able to visit Denmark pretty easily :yippee :smilie_flagge14:

[The Lawspeaker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=537Hr1FX4uE

[hussein khan]

What's your preference in music? Lots of good rock music came out of Denmark.

Never listens to rock and all.

I really dont have much a preference in music. Listen bit to gangster/ghetto music sometimes, but there's good stuff like from rasmus seebach and all.

[happycow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWyEvyEk9KE

[happycow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKRBeyFmayY

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/D8mJEt6-YYE

[The Lawspeaker]

Faroese - not Danish:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAbz_X8VUDg

Artist: Krauka This song is about the Norwegian viking age king Olav Tryggvason and his very large longship called Ormurinn Langi ("The long snake"), possibly the largest viking longship to ever exist. The picture is a illustration of his final battle against the Swedes, Danes and a Norwegian earl. If you want to know more read Olav Tryggvasons saga found in Heimskringla.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqjYOasI6YI

Krauka's first video from the new cd "Óðinn", this is the titeltrack of the cd : "Óðinn". Filmed in Iceland in the Lava near Reykjavik and at another place also close to Reykjavik where a good friend of ours lives, his name is also Óðinn and he has been a part of creating the beatiful Sculpture of Thor and his wagon in the video. "Óðinn" was filmed and edited from the 18/6 - 23/6 2009 by Sigurdur Agust Magnusson . For more info about Krauka you can go to www.krauka.dk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n098JZfvM6U

Krummi svaf í klettagjá (The first and fourth verse) Performed by KRAUKA on Vikinga Seiður (2001) Pictures from Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's: Hrafninn Flýgur

(1) Krummi svaf í klettagjá
kaldri vetrarnóttu á,
||: verður margt að meini. :||
Fyrr enn dagur fagur rann
freðið nefið dregur hann
||: undan stórum steini. :||

(2) „Allt er frosið úti gor,
ekkert fæst við ströndu mor
||: svengd er metti mína. :||
Ef að húsum heim ég fer heimafrakkur bannar mér
||: seppi´ úr sorp að tína." :||

(3) Á sér krummi ýfði stél,
einnig brýndi gogginn vel,
||: flaug úr fjalla gjótum. :||
Lítur yfir byggð og bú,
á bæjum fyrr en vakna hjú;
||: veifar vængjum skjótum. :||

(4) Sálaður á síðu lá
sauður feitur garði hjá
||: fyrrum frár á velli. :||
„Krunk, krunk! nafnar,
komið hér, krunk, krunk! því oss búin er
||: krás á köldu svelli." :||

Jón Thoroddsen

Translation (only the sung verses):
(1) The raven sleeping in the rocky gorge in the cold winter's night
||: will do much harm :||
Before the beautiful day dawns it pulls its frozen beak
||: from the large stone :||

(4) A dead, fat sheep lay on its side by the fence
||: Before, he was well fed :||
Krunk, krunk! Ravens, come here, krunk, krunk! For here is good food
||: on the cold ice :||


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvjdBelNFZM

Faroe Island folk-dance and singing. This is an english texted version of a video allready on you-tube. It is the ballad (kvad) of Ormen Lange/Ormurin Langi or the long serpent. The greatest viking ship ever built in Norway according to the sagas. It was commisoned by Olaf Trygvason. Please leave comments for corrections of translations if you have any, I will try to fix them. It is translated very directly, so you may follow the original Faroe texting. This is old art, and I believe it is best to understand it in the original language, instead of me thinking of English syntax and sentence construction.

[Skjaldemjøden]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jT-4-kyqJw

"Like the brush of a drop,
we were allowed to hope
for the things that may come
before life is over"

[The Lawspeaker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiLjNj7EuGc

[The Lawspeaker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPB8Wv05FV8

Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
Michael Schønwandt, conductor.
Carl Nielsen, composer.

I Allegro espansivo
II Andante pastorale - Inger Dam Jensen (soprano), Poul Elming (tenor)
III Allegretto un poco
IV Finale: Allegro

Carl Nielsen composed in nearly all genres: 2 operas, six symphonies, three solo concertos, Chamber music, music for piano and organ, a large number of songs and incidental music. In its stylistic starting point he took sharp distance from senromatikken. In the early works traced the influence of Brahms ' classicism, while he subsequently took elements from the European modernism. As the most important Danish composer of the 20th century. century, received Nielsen a decisive influence on the next generations of composers. The Danish composer Carl Nielsen wrote his Symphony No. 3 "Sinfonia Espansiva", Op. 27, FS 60, between 1910 and 1911 by . It typically lasts around 33 minutes. The symphony followed Nielsen's tenure as bandmaster at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen. Nielsen himself conducted the premiere of the work on February 28, 1912 with Copenhagen's Royal Danish Orchestra. The character designation of the first movement (Allegro espansivo) serves as the symphony's subtitle, but it is not clear what Nielsen meant by 'espansiva'. Composer Robert Simpson wrote that it suggests the "outward growth of the mind's scope". Uniquely amongst Nielsen's symphonic output, it includes vocal parts: wordless vocal solos for soprano and baritone in the second movement. Within two months of its premiere the symphony was in the repertoire of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, and by 1913 it had seen performances in Germany (Stuttgart), Sweden (Stockholm) and in Finland (Helsinki). It did not receive a public performance in the United Kingdom until 1962, under Bryan Fairfax. Nielsen received 5,000 marks for publishing rights (C.F. Kahnt, Leipzig), a sum significantly higher than he usually received from his publishers. It was the first of Nielsen's symphonies to be commercially released on record, with Erik Tuxen conducting the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/naL-eZZr2qk

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/DBqbJXT2-BI

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/uCpu6-PV2Eg

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/ngv1Z8VTAzU

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/lzR2xKEIVHA

[The Lawspeaker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wly6DJld2IA

[The Lawspeaker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LJB29cVUo

[The Lawspeaker]

As someone commented:


This tune is the Danish army's official mourning tune for the fallen. The text is by N.F. Grundtvig, and tells of the Battle of Isted in 1848 in the first Schleswigan War, which Denmark won. The tune dates back from 1864 by Peter Heise. 1864 was the second Schleswigan War that Denmark lost.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyCxZtQaOL0

[The Lawspeaker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY

Half a bar of Carl Nielsen and you know it’s him; a characteristic of great composers down the ages, to be sure, but one peculiarly concentrated around nationalist composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Nationalist, not necessarily through any political affiliation but because they sought to renew both the standard musical forms and genres, and their own country’s culture, with bold and fresh attempts to marry the two. So successful was Nielsen at this (like Sibelius in Finland), indeed, that for decades afterwards he seemed to cast a shadow over those who came after. The symphonies lie at the centre of Nielsen’s achievement. They develop as he did, from exuberant Romanticism (No.1), through rangy melodies and ‘visionary’ slow movements (Nos. 2 and 3), to an unquenchable embrace of the heroic struggle that places Man at the centre of his world (Nos. 4 and 5), finally to rest in a quizzical re-examination of all that we hold worthwhile in mind and music (No.6, the ‘Sinfonia semplice’: never was a symphony more ironically named.) Each symphony sets off on its own exciting journey, and the demands Nielsen makes on his participants are extreme; he was a fine violinist himself, and he used his extensive knowledge to turn string players inside out with ferocious fugues and precipitous runs. Many great orchestras have tackled this music, and some have ended up making it into little more than concertos for orchestra in all but name. Not however, this apparently less glittering ensemble. David Hurwitz, famously hard to please, is unequivocal in his Classics Today review: ‘Theodore Kuchar leads what is without question the most exciting complete Nielsen symphony cycle available, making this the set to get for Nielsen newcomers.

Composer: Carl Nielsen
Artist: Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra
Theodore Kuchar (conductor)


00:00:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=0s) Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 7: Allegro orgoglioso
00:09:09 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=549s) Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 7: Andante
00:17:16 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=1036s) Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 7: Allegro comodo
00:24:59 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=1499s) Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 7: Finale, allegro con fuoco
00:33:10 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=1990s) Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 “The Four Temperaments”: Allegro collerico
00:41:58 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=2518s) Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 “The Four Temperaments”: Allegro comodo e flemmatico
00:46:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=2760s) Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 “The Four Temperaments”: Andante malincolico
00:58:33 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=3513s) Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 “The Four Temperaments”: Allegro sanguinoso
01:05:15 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=3915s) Symphony No. 3, Op. 27 “Sinfonia espansiva”: Allegro espansivo
01:16:36 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=4596s) Symphony No. 3, Op. 27 “Sinfonia espansiva”: Andante pastorale
01:26:16 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=5176s) Symphony No. 3, Op. 27 “Sinfonia espansiva”: Allegretto un poco
01:32:50 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=5570s) Symphony No. 3, Op. 27 “Sinfonia espansiva”: Finale, allegro
01:42:07 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=6127s) Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 “The Inextinguishable”: Allegro
01:53:17 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=6797s) Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 “The Inextinguishable”: Poco allegretto
01:57:48 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=7068s) Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 “The Inextinguishable”: Poco adagio quasi andante
02:07:23 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=7643s) Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 “The Inextinguishable”: Allegro
02:16:11 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=8171s) Symphony No. 5, Op. 50: Tempo giusto
02:34:32 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=9272s) Symphony No. 5, Op. 50: Allegro
02:50:52 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=10252s) Symphony No. 6 “Sinfonia semplice”: Tempo giusto
03:04:33 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=11073s) Symphony No. 6 “Sinfonia semplice”: Humoreske, allegretto
03:08:41 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=11321s) Symphony No. 6 “Sinfonia semplice”: Proposta seria, adagio
03:14:47 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBDz0kCATY&t=11687s) Symphony No. 6 “Sinfonia semplice”: Theme & variations

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/LPn93Fq8PJQ

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/w6EjHceCS8Q

[Ülev]

https://youtu.be/PcCXbig78sU

[Wild North]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpdZsSM4U7w&list=PLN4G3pY9SI154O2-r6RFBimO4rOJxpfFw&index=16

[Wild North]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQDsvEvzezA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6ueKLTI5Bk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjpzlCSYRvY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJVtPbLKGF0&list=PLnOSH5j1sQh9PquT8Nx8ObbAppANfNhNX&index=4

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMRtDwwPk6Y

The second most famous galop for Orchestra of the Scandinavian Maestro !

Work : . Kobenhavns Jernbanedamp Galop (Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop)

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBeni3L7Gg

[Daco Celtic]

https://youtu.be/mlYJf6CJXV8?si=-7eNebXucEQy_ZXo

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnatCchQP0g

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwD4-DKB58U&ab_channel=VorF%C3%A6dreland

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leZRksGtBYk


Tak til jer, der faldt, og til jer, der blev.

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHV-SOxOtFA

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgtcG_8E7Zg

My personal footage from walking around the forest in Denmark.
Song recorded live in Lava Studio, Copenhagen



Turns out that Myrkur is a Danish project. I thought it was Swedish.

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcJVA3ZmJCc

Reinterpretation of traditional Danish folk song from the 1600s.

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWKi7mVMbfQ

Hefna in Old Norse means Revenge.
A faster than usual paced song, created with the revenge of Vikings in mind. The Chaotic, brutal insanity of battles waged against the enemy.

Danheim single / 2019

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MJ2tyVfd6c


The first known version of the tune for the Danish royal and national anthem "Kong Christian stod ved højen Mast" (King Christian stood by the lofty mast) is found in the notebook of the brothers Bast from around 1770-1780. The brothers where both fiddlers, entertaining at dinners, dances and parties, while studying theology in Copenhagen. From the notebook, the melody found its way to among others the composer Friedrich Kuhlau, who used it his play "Elverhøj" (Elves' Hill) from 1828. The success of the play elevated the melody to it's status as royal and national anthem. In this video, Concerto Copenhagen, with Peter Spissky in front, aim to present the tune in its original form – freshly taken from two fiddlers' collection of tunes.

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVAsGdIzgO0


Carl August Nielsen (9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a Danish composer, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.

Flute Concerto (1926)
Dedication: Holger Gilbert-Jespersen

1. Allegro moderato
2. Allegretto un poco - Adagio ma non troppo - Allegretto - Poco adagio - Tempo di marcia

Aurèle Nicolet, flute and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur

The Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (FS 119) was written in 1926 for Holger Gilbert-Jespersen, who succeeded Paul Hagemann as flautist of the Copenhagen Wind Quintet. The concerto, in two movements, was generally well received at its premiere in Paris in October 1926 where Nielsen had introduced a temporary ending. The first complete version was played in Copenhagen the following January. The flute concerto has become part of the international repertoire.

In 1921, Nielsen heard the Copenhagen Wind Quintet rehearsing music by Mozart and was struck by the group's tonal beauty and musicianship. That same year, he wrote his Wind Quintet expressly for this ensemble. The last movement of the wind quintet is a theme and variations depicting in music the personalities of the five players and their respective instruments, much in the manner that Elgar portrayed his friends in the Enigma Variations. Promising he would write a concerto for each member of the quintet, he started with the flautist Holger Gilbert-Jespersen (1890-1975). As a result of poor health, he was only able to complete one more concerto before his death, the Clarinet Concerto, for the group's clarinetist, Aage Oxenvad, which he completed in 1928.

Nielsen began work on the flute concerto while travelling in Germany and Italy in August 1926, intending it to be performed in Paris at a concert devoted to four of his works on 21 October. Unfortunately, as a result of a prolonged stomach complaint, he did not complete the work in time and had to introduce a temporary ending for its Paris premiere

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c277UL4iAC0

1. Ella (00:00)
2. Fager som en Ros (03:54)
3. Leaves of Yggdrasil 06:46)
4. Ramund (10:47)
5. Tor i Helheim (14:16)
6. Svea (21:27)

7. Harpens Kraft (24:53)
8. Gammelkäring (28:13)
9. House Carpenter (31:43)

10. Reiar (35:21)
11. Gudernes Vilje (39:08)
12. Vinter (43:06)

Amalie Bruun has always paved her own path, challenging underground preconceptions of heavy metal ever since the release of her debut Myrkur EP in 2014. Her first two full-length studio albums, 2015’s M and 2017’s Mareridt, recast black metal in the most personal yet expansive of terms, their blending of Amalie’s Danish folk roots with tempestuous internal struggles breathing new life into a subgenre whose followers can be rigidly possessive.

With the release of her new album, Folkesange, Amalie Bruun has set out to journey into the very heart of the Scandinavian culture that marked her childhood. Folkesange relinquishes black metal for a refined yet far-reaching evocation of traditional folk, combining songs ancient and new to sublimely resonant effect.

After the nightmare-induced visions that wrought themselves throughout Mareridt, Folkesange offers an emotional sanctuary, a means to reconnect to something permanent and nature-aligned. It’s an awareness that’s become deeply bound to the album’s organic, regenerative spirit, from the opening track Ella’s heartbeat, frame-drum percussion and crystalline vocals that become the grounding for a rapt, richly textured awakening, to the gentle carousel of the closing Vinter, with its nostalgia-steeped connotations of seasonal, snowfall-bewitched awe.

Storytelling, rites of passage, and the invocation of a continuity that passes through time and generation are all part of folk music’s tapestry, and Folkesange taps into all these currents in their most essential form. In part a purist’s approach to the genre, free from over-interpretation and fusion, the use of traditional instruments throughout, such as nyckelharpa, lyre, and mandola offer a deeper, more tactile connection to their source, an unbroken line of communication back to the past.

But the album is no museum piece; it resonates in the here and now, aided by the spacious production of Heilung member and musical collaborator Christopher Juul. Cinematic yet intimate, Folkesange exists in a state of boundless reverie, bourne by string-led drones, cyclical, elegiac rhythms and Amalie’s frictionless voice, all carrier signals for deep-rooted, ancestral memories, and associations felt on an elemental level.

It’s a binding of the otherworldly and the earthy that echoes the the subject matter of many of the tales themselves. Written by Amalie, Leaves Of Yggdrasil’s medieval cadences bind tragic love story and mythology, full of both fairytale wonder and deeply human foible. Tor i Helheim, its dreamily persistent rhythm redolent of both innocence and encroachment, is based on a poem from the Icelandic Eddas, relating a journey into the underworld of Hel where the sparse nature of the accompaniment becomes the medium that carries you along in its thrall.

An immersive experience in its own right, but also belonging to a wider, pagan folk-based renaissance that has attracted a devoted following worldwide, Folkesange answers a need that has become ever more pressing in turbulent times. A zeroing in on a resonance that is both intrinsic and enduring, it’s a rediscovery of personal grounding, and an experience that reaches beyond culture to remind us of a shared, deeply rooted inheritance. A tuning fork that binds the personal and the universal, Folkesange is a reminder that the most transcendent experiences are those closest to home.

(Words by Jonathan Selzer)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmN6wZ9rVPY

Herja is roughly translated to "wage war" and is one of the two new albums by Danheim (2018).
Herja contains Viking War Songs and Epic Viking Battle Songs. In contrast to the Fridr album, Herja is based on a darker atmosphere and are inspired by the struggles, battles and hostile times of the Viking Age.

Song list:
00:00 # Danheim - Hrungnir
03:14 # Danheim - Atgeir
06:16 # Danheim - Berserkir
10:08 # Danheim - Feigr
13:35 # Danheim - Fimbulvetr
17:55 # Danheim - Fjolsvin
21:29 # Danheim - Forn Elding
25:21 # Danheim - Framganga
28:36 # Danheim - Gungnir
35:00 # Danheim - Skjoldborg
38:17 # Danheim - Surt
41:48 # Danheim - Ulfhednar
46:03 # Danheim - Valfothr

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bHvk2hQXoY

Lyrics are from Sigerdrivamål (Norwegian: Sigrdrífumál) or Brynhildarljóð which is a heroic poem from The Older Edda; it is the first of the poems in the cycle about Sigurd Fåvnesbane.

It teaches us of both healing, shamanism, and the carving and importance of runes, especially in stanza 11.

In stanza 11 we see the word "Læknir" - games. We do not have an exact description of which knowledge and qualities it may have had in Norse society. But Greinruner might have been used and carved to treat wounds or diseases.

The complete poem is written in a new-fashioned way, depicts a meeting between Sigurd and the Valkyrie Sigerdriva. Sigurd rides through a ring of fire to free a human being who is bound inside. The woman is Sigerdriva, who is struck by sleep magic by Odin. As a thank you for Sigurd's help, she inaugurates him in the magic of runic art.

[Cybele]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-441uxB7Zw

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9tdQROP8sA

While originally being created as a Nordic hymn, the song's context fits for both Scandinavia and The North alike.

[Your Old Comrade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY8vHtZytNg

Gud bevare Danmark (God saves Denmark) ����

"I Danmark er jeg født" (In Denmark, I was born) or "Danmark, mit Fædreland" (Denmark, my Fatherland) is a Danish poem written by H.C.Andersen in 1850.
The first melody for the song was composed by Henrik Rung in 1850, and Poul Schierbeck wrote a new melody for it in 1926. The song has often been suggested as a "new" Danish national anthem instead of "Der er et yndigt land".