TheKodiak72 This song was written centuries before British Imperialism. And my people had gone through much suffering and enslavement by the Roman Empire even centuries before that!
TheKodiak72 Why is it so popular to be a victim these days? As if the culture being enslaved and killed is automatically superior/morally better than the ones doing the killing and enslaving. Look at Rome, the cultures they enslaved and/or took over were hardly pacifist peace makers themselves. And we do not look at Rome under such a light, but rather relish in their accomplishments. Stop trying to encourage the apologists of the European cultures. Europe was a thing to behold, inter-connecting the world and bringing us the modern sciences and in turn progressing humanity forward in a brief few hundred years more-so than the former few thousand.
"Miri it is..." is great as it shows that even two hundred years after the Normans, a whole song could be written with only Germanic words. Even the modern English translation does the same.
What's wrong with Norman conquest? I see it quite often that Englishman prise peganic Britania or anglo Saxon England but not Norman Conquest. I'm very curious about that.
@@blacklight4720 I think many people like to feel a strong connection to their true history, one connected by blood. While the Normans held the status of nobles and elites for many years after their conquest of England, that didn't change who the people of England really were. We're still Anglo-Saxons, and some people want to hold onto that.
heres the actual old english translation Merry it is while summer lasts With the song of birds But now draws near the wind's blasts And harsh weather Alas, alas! How long the night is! And I, most unjustly Sorrow and mourn and fast
That's the Modern English translation. Here's the actual Old English translation: Myrige hit is þenden sumor ƿaraþ Mid fugla sange Ac nu genehƿaþ ƿindes blæd And strang geƿeder Æ, hƿæt, þeos niht is lang And ic mid sƿiþe micclum ƿrange Sorge, and murne, and fæste.
One of the best known medieval English tunes-composed in a dialect of Mercian/Anglian not too far from the one that becomes "our" English. This was probably written not too far from London.
It is utterly fascinating and we are so fortunate that we even have this one verse. An actual Anglo Saxon song! Mind blowing. And Forefather absolutely shot it out the park on this one, fucking belter of a tune.
there were AS riddles which ridicule men who consort with "dark haired" welsh women, but this conception was spiritual not based on scientific race, eventually welsh and saxon did intermingle, as many welsh were forced to adopt AS culture and essentially became english - just as irish slaves eventually became icelanders.
Damn, this is something. I'm of Anglo-Persian descent, born and raised in Britain, Essex. As much as I don't have pure Anglo-Saxon blood running through my veins, I was born on this land, and as much I don't claim the ancestors of my birth country as my own, they lived on this land, and thus as me being part of this land, I will respect and honour them. My fellow Englishmen of Anglo Saxon heritage, take it from someone who isn't Anglo Saxon, fucking start reclaiming your heritage and fight for it. I don't even have Anglo Saxon heritage (fully that is), but I'm willing to fight for it. There are some who wouldn't consider me English, and as much as I don't belong to the ethnic group of Anglo Saxon, me being part of the cultural English unit, birth on the land, and raised as such, makes me English in that respect. If it didn't at all, well, then people are just blind to the obvious. Don't get me wrong, I respect and honour my Persian heritage as much, but that is a foreign ideal to me due to several generations of my family not living there. Still, respect, honour, and fight for your blood. Britannia! (Rant over. Sick music.)
I'm norwegian, and I was actually able to read some of those words, which means that this language is probably 900 years old =P fugheles - birds - fugler/fuglene(norwegian) Great song! Hails from the not-so-cold(at the moment) north!
Anyone interested in hearing a historical portrayal of this awesome song should check out Mirie It Is While Sumer Ilast by the amazing musician Farya Faraji. It's awesome to hear that version of the song coming from here.
Hail my English brothers, keep up the brilliant song, the gods and the ancestors smile at you Wulfstan and Athelstan, England'll be free fore long!!!!!!!
Holy shit this song has absolutely nothing to envy to Metallica or any other Metal group you think about. The musical quality is extreme, it's insane !
That's because the tune and what not is based off something that already exists, I personally prefer the original however the metal version is still cool
The only thing that is unoriginal is the sung melody (because that is all we have left of this song). The entire rest of the song is Forefather’s original work. Including the second verse’s lyrics at the end.
+Damian Freeman (TheExceeder) I know what you mean. This is just a simple folk song, but for some reason it is just so much more than that. Forefather's own addition says so much in such few words. Miri and brief is our time between the voids of our non-existence. If we want to live forever, it is only in the memories of the living, and so we must achieve excellence life, to not be forgotten. I don't believe, at least I hope, that one life is not the whole of our existence, but it is a beautiful way to express such a belief.
senatortombstone I suppose. I think my only issue with the song is that the added second verse isn't quite what I'd (personally and subjectively) imagine a second verse of this song to be like. It's good, don't get me wrong. I just like the season-suffering theme more. :P
This is Middle English, not Old English. If you read it's kind of possible to discern the meaning of many of the words, which isn't possible with most pre-Norman English vocabulary
Marcin Stochmal lol. Anglo is England. Anglo American Anglo Canadian Anglo Atlantic Anglo commonwealth to name a handful of things that carry our banner
What the fuuuuuck are you flapping about. For one half those useless people's never made it to America in the early days with England or France saying they can fucking come when we said they can come so this idea that you've all got tons of heritage it complete bollocks just another attempt and making some history. Second, it's call Anglo America, because we gave it our stamp we built it, the yanks don't say Franco, or Mexicano or any other shutter who arrived 150 years after the French and English. They are you peenarse, o yea I forgot you'd know better then the national archives of two nations wouldn't you? Twat. Anglo is the word used for England as a country it not hard to fucking understand. Anglo American tobacco , anglo American treaty, Anglo free trade agreement. Briton is a fucking person who lives on the British Isles you clown! We've got many labels the most commonly said are , brits, Britons, anglians go and get a fucking clue. Secondly you have no evidence of those national Ali ties, you've just cherry picked from conspiracy which is plainly fucking obvious by who you've named...Italians? What coz you had a mafia from 1911 that means there's always been Italians...no doesn't work like that. Irish because of gangs of new York? Germans because of a few hessian mercenaries the Anglo house in the colonies? Your very clues. Just a simple search of the word Anglo would have saved you public embarrassment. It's wasn't like it is today if your going to someone's country back then you better have a reason for being there or some papers explaining why you are there you could not freely migrate ffs on mass it's called an empire! by denomination of the fact your barely 250 years old as America then it is highly unlikely many of you carry those genes much tbh. And it's not Mexican it's Spanish , they are not Brazilian they are Portuguese and Spanish. So there you are again clueless, your entire two continents are directly descended from Europeans so you fool can claim whatever you want the reality is we have books manuscripts records of all this in Europe older then any of your nations detailing in full from all European powers at the time what happened who? what? where? when? why? Anglo=England Briton=a person who resides on the BRITISH Isles. Britannia=Britain English=those who are native to England not britain. You lot play too many games and haven't read much on the subject clearly. Next you be saying Americans built the pyramids and Americans are one zillion th ancient Egyptian or annunaki or some cap. Go read and believe me American history books are toilet roll over here, 90% is made up or a spin job.
I never forgot my ancestors, I follow their gods, their traditions... but sadly im few and the majority of my fellow countrymen have no memory of their history. Schools dont educate the populace anymore of our own history. We are dying out and the memory may soon die out, I will continue to fuel the flame. My children will pass my memory and so on. But alas here we are. Please dont confuse britons with the anglo-saxons, but thank for your encouragment.
Goddamn,I never even heard of this band before 10 minutes ago and I"m a fan already.This is good.Its about time we English had such an expressive voice to speak for us.
The begining of This version of the song contrasted with the regular version gives me this image of a dark being traped within the underworld hearing the sad cries of the people above. And singing Back in mocking tones because he knows soon many will perish in the winter. In short this short this sounds *EPIC.*
@Nattevinder Much of the album is written in Old and Middle english which does have some Norse influences, so I guess it's not suprising you recognise some of it. The Old English language was spoken by the Anglo-Saxons well over 1000 years ago and died out with the Norman invasion in 1066.
BTW the last word is unknown, it is thought to be "fast" as an "f" is visible (the original score can be found online), It could have been anything. Also, the tempo and mood of the song is not known, it could just as much have been a bawdy song and the last f... well not f*ck, as this didn't mean the same, but something in this direction. Because, really, the Middle Ages were not always bleak and it's easy to figure out that in the dark and long nights there were better things to do than fasting :) This said, awesome song, loved it!!
Early music purist though I may be, I have to say this is awesome! I have several recordings of this ancient melody, and while it's impossible to pick a favourite, this is definitely up there.
@Avradizimir Spoken old English never died out with the Norman invasion, it was not the language of officialdom any more that being French. But most of the population continued to speak old English for a very long time after 1066. If you go to parts of the North of England today you will hear the locals say words like night but pronounced neet similar to the old nicht.
Proper, transliterated lyrics: Mirie it iſ while ſumer ilaſt ƿið fugheles ſong. ac nu necheð ƿindeſ blaſt and ƿeder ſtrong. Ei ei ƿhat þiſ nicht is long. And ich ƿið ƿel michel wrong. ſoregh and murne and [faſte*]. Source: Bodleian Library Rawlinson Manuscript G.22 * torn off at the bottom of the MS.
It would have been nice for the band to have worked with the late Sir Christopher Lee on this song which is featured in the Wicker Man. His voice would have gone well with this music.
@VerginixAbbyAirsoft cradle are pretty good! so are anaal nathrakh, iron maiden, bal sagoth, forfather, akercocke. the fact is, there's so many great british bands that it's impossible to decide who's best
Joeymediauk, there are a few AngloSaxon projects about. All of different styles but I love a lot of it. King Penda Productions is a DIY label with a few
The first part of this song is actually the oldest surviving English language song. Translates as: Merry it is, while spring lasts with birds' song... But then comes the blasting wind & strong weather... Aye aye, but this night is long! And I, having been greatly wronged, sorrow & mourn & fast.
Yah I just read that on there profile, Wow this is a trully amazing band! Anglo saxon metal as they call it is amazing! These guys and heidevolk are great. So never will they play live?
They stated on several occasions that they do not want to hire session musicions due to keeping the project confined to the two brothers only. They also don't care for the unessicary work put in to get live shows happening, as they don't have support staff, its just the two members and they run everything themself. Verg
THIS song clearly gonna be soooo much played on repeat at my and my friends summer Blót this year.. All hail Odin the allfather To battle, for tonigth we dine... IN VALHALLA o))===((::::::VIKING POWER::::::::>
ANGLO-NORMAN/MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS: "Miri it is while sumer ilast with fugheles song, oc nu neheth windes blast and weder strong. ei ei what this niht is long. and ich with wel michel wrong, soregh and murn and fast." MODERN ENGLISH LYRICS: "Merry it is while summer lasts with the song of birds; but now draws near the wind's blast and harsh weather. Alas, Alas! How long this night is! And I, most unjustly, sorrow and mourn and fast."
+Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson I discovered this song a few days ago and absolutely love it. However, I have a hard time getting the melody right when I sing it. Fugheles, ich, and soregh have cognates with German: Vogel, Ich, Sorge; however, I cannot make sense as to how "with wel michel wrong" means "most unjustly."
Miri it is while sumer y-last With fugheles son Oc nu neheth windes blast And weder strong. Ei, ei! What this nicht is long And ich with wel michel wrong Soregh and murne and fast.
Hey!! Thanks for this! I have seen translations on the English bit online but this one is a lot more accurate then other amateur ones. Thanks a lot mate, and Keep supporting Forefther! Verg
@666satanification666 Well the anglo saxons did bring in the Germanic influence... The real english people the aboriginals of that area where killed or pushed into wales and scotland (mainly wales). Also Normans were also of norse/germanic decent, they just happend to be given land in Normandy by the french because they were sick of having paris sacked by them :P. So the English today are more germanic/norse than you think...
No, Chaucer spoke Middle English; if this were Old English, it would be incomprehensible to everyone. Shakespeare spoke Early Modern English, while we today speak modern English; linguistically, it's not as large a leap as from modern to middle english.
Actually it is. At the end of the first verse, you can tell that it has German language influence in which the singer uses "ich" to refer him/herself. Which is common, it has only been a couple hundreds of years after the Anglo-Saxon people came to Kingdom of Wessex.
These 2 individuals are not fascist/Nazi, and although I don't know them personally, racist either. All I hear is the sound of knowing where one comes from.
I can't believe its taken till 2022 for me to discover this band.
Nor can those reading your comment!
It's okay mate, you're on the right path now. I didn't discover them until 2008 when their 6th album was coming out. Welcome to the fold brother! FF
@@Angelcynn937 Response to a comment I made 2 years ago!.. Yes better late than never.. And still very much enjoying them...
England forever brother
Quack
May our culture endure forever.
Edward Solomon The one where you kill and enslave millions?
TheKodiak72 Which killing and enslaving would that be? Wow me with your superior grasp of English history.
TheKodiak72
This song was written centuries before British Imperialism. And my people had gone through much suffering and enslavement by the Roman Empire even centuries before that!
TheKodiak72 Why is it so popular to be a victim these days? As if the culture being enslaved and killed is automatically superior/morally better than the ones doing the killing and enslaving. Look at Rome, the cultures they enslaved and/or took over were hardly pacifist peace makers themselves. And we do not look at Rome under such a light, but rather relish in their accomplishments. Stop trying to encourage the apologists of the European cultures. Europe was a thing to behold, inter-connecting the world and bringing us the modern sciences and in turn progressing humanity forward in a brief few hundred years more-so than the former few thousand.
TheKodiak72 Fuck off anti-white.
"Miri it is..." is great as it shows that even two hundred years after the Normans, a whole song could be written with only Germanic words. Even the modern English translation does the same.
What's wrong with Norman conquest? I see it quite often that Englishman prise peganic Britania or anglo Saxon England but not Norman Conquest. I'm very curious about that.
@@blacklight4720 I think many people like to feel a strong connection to their true history, one connected by blood. While the Normans held the status of nobles and elites for many years after their conquest of England, that didn't change who the people of England really were. We're still Anglo-Saxons, and some people want to hold onto that.
Fodge technically Anglo-Celtic is a more appropriate description of the genetics and culture of the English, but yeah.
Michael Hester English is still a germanic language.
@@UnforgivingDemon there are a lot of latin and french based words in the english language. it is a germanic/nordic/celt/latin/french hybrid language.
long live the glory of our anglo saxon forfathers!
heres the actual old english translation
Merry it is while summer lasts
With the song of birds
But now draws near the wind's blasts
And harsh weather
Alas, alas! How long the night is!
And I, most unjustly
Sorrow and mourn and fast
Demonic Payne Þes is eald englisc, frēond! This is Old English, mate!
That's the Modern English translation. Here's the actual Old English translation:
Myrige hit is þenden sumor ƿaraþ
Mid fugla sange
Ac nu genehƿaþ ƿindes blæd
And strang geƿeder
Æ, hƿæt, þeos niht is lang
And ic mid sƿiþe micclum ƿrange
Sorge, and murne, and fæste.
The song is in Middle English, not Old English.@@leornendeealdenglisc
One of the best known medieval English tunes-composed in a dialect of Mercian/Anglian not too far from the one that becomes "our" English. This was probably written not too far from London.
It is utterly fascinating and we are so fortunate that we even have this one verse. An actual Anglo Saxon song! Mind blowing. And Forefather absolutely shot it out the park on this one, fucking belter of a tune.
Proud of my North West Viking Heritage and also my Anglo Saxon heritage. God Bless ENGLAND!
there were AS riddles which ridicule men who consort with "dark haired" welsh women, but this conception was spiritual not based on scientific race, eventually welsh and saxon did intermingle, as many welsh were forced to adopt AS culture and essentially became english - just as irish slaves eventually became icelanders.
Survive the Jive Why are you everywhere? Great taste in tunes
The riffs in this song made my beard grow several inches
So damn awesome
Really? --- Can't believe it!
Damn, this is something. I'm of Anglo-Persian descent, born and raised in Britain, Essex. As much as I don't have pure Anglo-Saxon blood running through my veins, I was born on this land, and as much I don't claim the ancestors of my birth country as my own, they lived on this land, and thus as me being part of this land, I will respect and honour them. My fellow Englishmen of Anglo Saxon heritage, take it from someone who isn't Anglo Saxon, fucking start reclaiming your heritage and fight for it. I don't even have Anglo Saxon heritage (fully that is), but I'm willing to fight for it. There are some who wouldn't consider me English, and as much as I don't belong to the ethnic group of Anglo Saxon, me being part of the cultural English unit, birth on the land, and raised as such, makes me English in that respect. If it didn't at all, well, then people are just blind to the obvious. Don't get me wrong, I respect and honour my Persian heritage as much, but that is a foreign ideal to me due to several generations of my family not living there. Still, respect, honour, and fight for your blood. Britannia!
(Rant over. Sick music.)
Good lad tbh
The Gaels, Cimmerians and Cimbri were of the Indo European stock, we share the same ancestors with the Persians!
I'm norwegian, and I was actually able to read some of those words, which means that this language is probably 900 years old =P
fugheles - birds - fugler/fuglene(norwegian)
Great song! Hails from the not-so-cold(at the moment) north!
It's from the 13th century.
Fûgels (Frysk)
Greetings from across the sea
@@nimmen Nice to hear from you, cousin!
Germaanske freonen, wês grutsk!
Greetings from Fryslân
🫡
Anyone interested in hearing a historical portrayal of this awesome song should check out Mirie It Is While Sumer Ilast by the amazing musician Farya Faraji. It's awesome to hear that version of the song coming from here.
This is just on another level...
*Sigh* Yeah. It really is its own beast!
These guys are so badass! They need more recognition i'm literally the only person that knows of forefather in my town haha
This band always put me in such a summery mood, it's great.
Hail my English brothers, keep up the brilliant song, the gods and the ancestors smile at you Wulfstan and Athelstan, England'll be free fore long!!!!!!!
such a cool language
Totally amazing
Holy shit this song has absolutely nothing to envy to Metallica or any other Metal group you think about. The musical quality is extreme, it's insane !
That's because the tune and what not is based off something that already exists, I personally prefer the original however the metal version is still cool
The only thing that is unoriginal is the sung melody (because that is all we have left of this song). The entire rest of the song is Forefather’s original work. Including the second verse’s lyrics at the end.
Finally! An anglo-saxon band!
This gave me shivers. That additional verse is quite something.
+Damian Freeman (TheExceeder) I know what you mean. This is just a simple folk song, but for some reason it is just so much more than that. Forefather's own addition says so much in such few words. Miri and brief is our time between the voids of our non-existence. If we want to live forever, it is only in the memories of the living, and so we must achieve excellence life, to not be forgotten. I don't believe, at least I hope, that one life is not the whole of our existence, but it is a beautiful way to express such a belief.
senatortombstone I suppose.
I think my only issue with the song is that the added second verse isn't quite what I'd (personally and subjectively) imagine a second verse of this song to be like. It's good, don't get me wrong. I just like the season-suffering theme more. :P
In Old English, summer is sumor or sumer depending on the period and dialect.
So would it be fair for the sumers to actually call summer "english"?
Wes hael, Cefin!
I’m pretty sure this is early middle-English, though
This is Middle English, not Old English. If you read it's kind of possible to discern the meaning of many of the words, which isn't possible with most pre-Norman English vocabulary
They did a great rendition of a very old traditional song.
haunting, can't get enough of this song or that album as a whole
The first verse is in middle english. It's a poem from back in the day. The second verse was written by Athelstan.
Just wanted to give a shout out to all my Anglo-Saxon brothers and sisters out there. Hail!
marry it is this song ♡
Such a beautiful song... great harmony.
Seriously great tune - the band is reigniting my British folklore flame
This is beautiful music. Please Britons, do not discard your heritage.
+senatortombstone Too late.
+Senlac1066 so long as Englishmen breath the breath of life, it is never too late. That we exist and resist our dispossession is all that is required.
Marcin Stochmal lol. Anglo is England. Anglo American Anglo Canadian Anglo Atlantic Anglo commonwealth to name a handful of things that carry our banner
What the fuuuuuck are you flapping about. For one half those useless people's never made it to America in the early days with England or France saying they can fucking come when we said they can come so this idea that you've all got tons of heritage it complete bollocks just another attempt and making some history. Second, it's call Anglo America, because we gave it our stamp we built it, the yanks don't say Franco, or Mexicano or any other shutter who arrived 150 years after the French and English. They are you peenarse, o yea I forgot you'd know better then the national archives of two nations wouldn't you? Twat. Anglo is the word used for England as a country it not hard to fucking understand. Anglo American tobacco , anglo American treaty, Anglo free trade agreement. Briton is a fucking person who lives on the British Isles you clown! We've got many labels the most commonly said are , brits, Britons, anglians go and get a fucking clue. Secondly you have no evidence of those national Ali ties, you've just cherry picked from conspiracy which is plainly fucking obvious by who you've named...Italians? What coz you had a mafia from 1911 that means there's always been Italians...no doesn't work like that. Irish because of gangs of new York? Germans because of a few hessian mercenaries the Anglo house in the colonies? Your very clues. Just a simple search of the word Anglo would have saved you public embarrassment. It's wasn't like it is today if your going to someone's country back then you better have a reason for being there or some papers explaining why you are there you could not freely migrate ffs on mass it's called an empire! by denomination of the fact your barely 250 years old as America then it is highly unlikely many of you carry those genes much tbh. And it's not Mexican it's Spanish , they are not Brazilian they are Portuguese and Spanish. So there you are again clueless, your entire two continents are directly descended from Europeans so you fool can claim whatever you want the reality is we have books manuscripts records of all this in Europe older then any of your nations detailing in full from all European powers at the time what happened who? what? where? when? why?
Anglo=England
Briton=a person who resides on the BRITISH Isles.
Britannia=Britain
English=those who are native to England not britain. You lot play too many games and haven't read much on the subject clearly. Next you be saying Americans built the pyramids and Americans are one zillion th ancient Egyptian or annunaki or some cap. Go read and believe me American history books are toilet roll over here, 90% is made up or a spin job.
I never forgot my ancestors, I follow their gods, their traditions... but sadly im few and the majority of my fellow countrymen have no memory of their history. Schools dont educate the populace anymore of our own history. We are dying out and the memory may soon die out, I will continue to fuel the flame. My children will pass my memory and so on. But alas here we are. Please dont confuse britons with the anglo-saxons, but thank for your encouragment.
this track rocks so much my unborn kids are rocking out to it already!
I NEED this album!!!
One of my favourite bands/songs ever! I hope we'll see the new album from Forefather soon.
That last riff set was just godly!
Goddamn,I never even heard of this band before 10 minutes ago and I"m a fan already.This is good.Its about time we English had such an expressive voice to speak for us.
The begining of This version of the song contrasted with the regular version gives me this image of a dark being traped within the underworld hearing the sad cries of the people above. And singing Back in mocking tones because he knows soon many will perish in the winter.
In short this short this sounds *EPIC.*
Great band!
HAIL! FOREFATHER!
Excellent!...nothing more to say about it
@Nattevinder
Much of the album is written in Old and Middle english which does have some Norse influences, so I guess it's not suprising you recognise some of it. The Old English language was spoken by the Anglo-Saxons well over 1000 years ago and died out with the Norman invasion in 1066.
3:36
I love this part so much
And 4:30!
Great song of my fathers long gone. Makes me want to charge into battle holding battle axe in right hand and horn of ale in left.
i love folk metal
Best bit is from 0:00 to 5:43
BTW the last word is unknown, it is thought to be "fast" as an "f" is visible (the original score can be found online), It could have been anything. Also, the tempo and mood of the song is not known, it could just as much have been a bawdy song and the last f... well not f*ck, as this didn't mean the same, but something in this direction.
Because, really, the Middle Ages were not always bleak and it's easy to figure out that in the dark and long nights there were better things to do than fasting :)
This said, awesome song, loved it!!
Nice song...
epic solos hands down
I swear, bands like Forefather awaken the Saxon in me! \m/
siiick
Early music purist though I may be, I have to say this is awesome! I have several recordings of this ancient melody, and while it's impossible to pick a favourite, this is definitely up there.
@Avradizimir
Spoken old English never died out with the Norman invasion, it was not the language of officialdom any more that being French. But most of the population continued to speak old English for a very long time after 1066. If you go to parts of the North of England today you will hear the locals say words like night but pronounced neet similar to the old nicht.
Amazing band, I wish they would play live!
hail from belgium!!!
Proper, transliterated lyrics:
Mirie it iſ while ſumer ilaſt ƿið fugheles ſong.
ac nu necheð ƿindeſ blaſt and ƿeder ſtrong.
Ei ei ƿhat þiſ nicht is long.
And ich ƿið ƿel michel wrong.
ſoregh and murne and [faſte*].
Source: Bodleian Library Rawlinson Manuscript G.22
* torn off at the bottom of the MS.
I LOVE FOLK METAL. It sounds like the nation and its roots speaking themselves.
awesome, miti it is! my favorite one!
It would have been nice for the band to have worked with the late Sir Christopher Lee on this song which is featured in the Wicker Man.
His voice would have gone well with this music.
Outstanding version. Great guitar work.
Wassail!
Bands als dit, en heidevolk maakt me trots om een Nederlandse. Saxon trots!
@VerginixAbbyAirsoft cradle are pretty good! so are anaal nathrakh, iron maiden, bal sagoth, forfather, akercocke. the fact is, there's so many great british bands that it's impossible to decide who's best
Joeymediauk, there are a few AngloSaxon projects about. All of different styles but I love a lot of it. King Penda Productions is a DIY label with a few
Why have all their music disappeared from Spotify? I miss them so much...
Excelente banda, de mis favoritas
This is really nice!! Thumbs up!
Ours is the Kingdom!!!!
Ours is the Kingdom!!!
Did anyone watch 1066: The Battle For Middle Earth early this week? Was fucking brilliant in telling that story.
The first part of this song is actually the oldest surviving English language song. Translates as:
Merry it is, while spring lasts with birds' song...
But then comes the blasting wind & strong weather...
Aye aye, but this night is long!
And I, having been greatly wronged, sorrow & mourn & fast.
Mmm love it
Yah I just read that on there profile, Wow this is a trully amazing band! Anglo saxon metal as they call it is amazing! These guys and heidevolk are great. So never will they play live?
The part starting at 0:27 is the best
They stated on several occasions that they do not want to hire session musicions due to keeping the project confined to the two brothers only. They also don't care for the unessicary work put in to get live shows happening, as they don't have support staff, its just the two members and they run everything themself.
Verg
HAPPY ST GEORGES DAY
THIS song clearly gonna be soooo much played on repeat at my and my friends summer Blót this year..
All hail Odin the allfather
To battle, for tonigth we dine... IN VALHALLA
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EPIC AF
So catchy!
Awesome song. I love how they sing it in Middle English. I wonder if they will do a verse from Chaucer.
ANGLO-NORMAN/MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS:
"Miri it is while sumer ilast with fugheles song, oc nu
neheth windes blast and weder strong. ei ei what this
niht is long. and ich with wel michel wrong, soregh and
murn and fast."
MODERN ENGLISH LYRICS:
"Merry it is while summer lasts with the song of birds;
but now draws near the wind's blast and harsh weather.
Alas, Alas! How long this night is! And I, most unjustly,
sorrow and mourn and fast."
Isn't the middle English word for night derivative from the Germanic "nicht"
Tony Oliver Yes.
Tony Oliver It's not derivative, but rather a cognate to the German "Nacht"
+Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson I discovered this song a few days ago and absolutely love it. However, I have a hard time getting the melody right when I sing it. Fugheles, ich, and soregh have cognates with German: Vogel, Ich, Sorge; however, I cannot make sense as to how "with wel michel wrong" means "most unjustly."
Anglo-Norman was a dialect of French. This is full Middle English.
Þes is middel englisc. Þes nis eald englisc.
wundorlic
Pes is both middle and old English?
@@kamajusan2 "nis" means "isn't".
þu woldest secgean "þis". "þis" is næghwæþres gecyndes, þæs þe man eac gebreac to onginnanne gecwide. :)
Everyone knows, ok?
Heh, the riff there is too epic!
Miri it is while sumer y-last
With fugheles son
Oc nu neheth windes blast
And weder strong.
Ei, ei! What this nicht is long
And ich with wel michel wrong
Soregh and murne and fast.
Hey!!
Thanks for this! I have seen translations on the English bit online but this one is a lot more accurate then other amateur ones.
Thanks a lot mate, and Keep supporting Forefther!
Verg
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@666satanification666 Well the anglo saxons did bring in the Germanic influence... The real english people the aboriginals of that area where killed or pushed into wales and scotland (mainly wales). Also Normans were also of norse/germanic decent, they just happend to be given land in Normandy by the french because they were sick of having paris sacked by them :P. So the English today are more germanic/norse than you think...
Somebody knows were the hell I can buy all of their albums? Can't find them anywhere in Sweden!
Why did I not know of you sooner..
No, Chaucer spoke Middle English; if this were Old English, it would be incomprehensible to everyone. Shakespeare spoke Early Modern English, while we today speak modern English; linguistically, it's not as large a leap as from modern to middle english.
Ahhh Epic lyrics.....
3:36 EPIC!!!! brutal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi!
This is middle English?
It is has very strong German influence. [fugheles ~ Vögel [V pronounced as "F", ich=ich].
Actually it is. At the end of the first verse, you can tell that it has German language influence in which the singer uses "ich" to refer him/herself. Which is common, it has only been a couple hundreds of years after the Anglo-Saxon people came to Kingdom of Wessex.
It's not "influence"
It was and still is German's brother, just a lot more frenchified in modern times
These 2 individuals are not fascist/Nazi, and although I don't know them personally, racist either. All I hear is the sound of knowing where one comes from.
There is no better medieval folk metal :) Greetings from Turkland \m/
I'm Swedish and what's funny is that what cannot be comprehended as English can be interpreted as Swedish words spelled funny.
cheers.
Heh, we understand! My personal Favorite is around 2:36
By the way does anyone know the full lyrics? I can only find the first part :/
Those should be correct. But I have the CD right beside me and I can type out the ones directly from the lyrics book if you want.
I agree! The album is great! I found this band about a month ago and can't get enough of them!
Do you have a link to the Lyrics of the new Album?
Verg
Amazing!!\m/
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That's a different song completely. This song, Miri It Is, the start verse is medieval, it's a traditional folk song.