European Pagan Music

[catgeorge]

Post your favourite European Pagan music and see if its all similar

[Óttar]

[catgeorge]

Ottar - that's five stars.

Thread wants Pagan music

[Grishnack]

[catgeorge]

Grishy just listened to that in the background thats excellent - is that representation of Dacia or someone else like Scythia?

[Grishnack]

Grishy just listened to that in the background thats excellent - is that representation of Dacia or someone else like Scythia?

I don't know. All I know is that it should be a representation of ancestral Romania.

[Óttar]

Ottar - that's five stars.

Thread wants Pagan music

This was written when Scandinavia still had a significant "pagan" population.

[Dick]

These videos are neo-pagan crap.

"pagan music"- if you even want to call it that- didn't involve instruments but chanting/singing and dancing and maybe a drum.

[Óttar]

I wish they mentioned who performs this rendition of the song.



Lyrics: ( Old Norse and English ).

Ask veit ek standa, heitir Yggdrasill hár baðmr, ausinn hvíta auri;
þaðan koma döggvar þærs í dala falla; stendr æ yfir grœnn Urðar brunni.

Þaðan koma meyjar margs vitandi þrjár, ór þeim sal er und þolli stendr;
Urð hétu eina, aðra Verðandi, skáru á skíði, Skuld ina þriðju; þær lög lögðu,
þær líf kuru alda börnum, örlög seggja.

An ash I know it stands- It is named Yggdrasill. High tree, sprinkled, With white mud;
There from come the dews- That fall on the dale!
It stands always green, above- The source of Urdhr.

There from come the maids, Much knowing; Three, their dwelling, Stands under the tree;
Urdh is named one, The other Verdhandi, - They notched (scored) wood - Skuld is the third.
They set up the laws, They decided on the lives, Of the children of time ('the children of man'). They promulgate fate.

[Óttar]

I don't know. All I know is that it should be a representation of ancestral Romania.

Their name Dordeduh I read is translated "Yearning for Spirit." Romanian being an eastern Romance language, from which Latin roots do these words descend? Are they from pre-Roman Dacian?