Ofdrykkja - Hårgalåten (Official Music Video)
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Sebastian Bragstad & Ørjan Trotland
Hårgalåten is a well known folk song in Sweden, but it's not as well known outside of Sweden. It's a tale about how the devil himself, disguised as a fiddler, made the young people in the village of Hårga in Hälsingland dance to their death. Back in 2015, our drummer at the time, Stefan Wahlberg aka "Bödeln", said that he wanted us to record a version of Hårgalåten. He himself was from Hälsingland, and he really liked the song and the lyrics.
A recording of this song never happened at the time, and as some of you know, Stefan tragically passed a away a few years later. About a year ago, we decided that we would record our own interpretation of Hårgalåten. It features our friend Georg Börner (ColdWorld (Official)) on the traditional Swedish instrument nyckelharpa, vocals by Miranda Samuelsson and has been mastered by Markus Stock (Empyrium, Sun Of The Sleepless)
This one is for you Stefan.
Tills vidare, in i evigheten!
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Hårgadansen or Hårgasägnen is a legend about how the devil himself, disguised as a fiddler, made the young people in the village of Hårga in Hälsingland dance themselves to death. The oldest known record of the legend was made by the commissioner of Bollnäs Johan Gabriel Lindström in 1785 and is reproduced in JD Flitenberg's collections about Hälsinglan
thanks for the backstory! very well made video to the story!
fascinating. Thanks for the backstory to this video.
So basically christians made that story up. 🤣🤣. Our people dont believe on the devil.
@@Thekoryosmenstribepodcast Well, one influence or the other, aren't they all made up at the end?
@@Thekoryosmenstribepodcast It's a kind of metaphor for living only for pleasure. Chasing money or fame, you will dance yourself to death to the accompaniment of the violin the devil is playing.
Swedish.
"Hårgalåten", or the "Harga song", is a Swedish folk song. The song is connected to a 1785 story published by Johan Gabriel Lindström. The song describes how a mysterious fiddler came to the community near Hårgaberget or "Harga mountain", and played the fiddle. The youth danced to the tune that the fiddler played and they were unable to stop. Some of the youth noticed a cloven hoof, leading them to believe the fiddler was demonic. Even as morning came, the adults noticed they were all still dancing, and the fiddler still fiddling. Later, the dancers started dropping dead from exhaustion.
Ths has nothing to do with the Viking age.
But a lot to do with Swedish culture.
Interesting. There are similarities there to the story of the Pied Piper, which is a German story about a pipe player who leads away a village's children after the adults refuse to pay him for getting rid of their rats.
And these days the old folks accuse musicians of turning their kids to "worshipping Satan"...Man, musicians just can't catch a break, can they?
The Hårga Mountain is a real place. I come from there and if you go to the top you'll see a circle in the mountain as if the rock has been grinded down from wear and tear.
English translation:
The fiddler grabbed the fiddle from it's case
And lifted his bow towards the dawning Sunday sun
Then the people of Hårga came in a hurry
Forgot about God and the whole world
They danced over meadows and hills
High upon the top of Hårga ridge
One wore out both shoes and heels
One could not stop the dance
Where do you come from, you who is playing
Tell us who taught you such play, so wild and mad
If you don't stop our hearts will burst
Oh God preserve us, he has a cloven hoof!
The bells had rung in the valley,
And father and mother and brother
Walked to the parish church
Where can Hårga's youth now be?
Oh my God, they are still dancing!
They danced to the Hårga tune
High upon the top of Hårga ridge
They are not far from crying
Dancing, they now wore out soul and body
Stop your bow, fiddler
Before we dance our life, soul and bones away
No he doesn't stop his dance
Until we all fall dead down
We call this Nøkken in Norway. I wrote my own short story about him and I'll teach my clan to beware of him in the woods.
@@EinDeutscherPatriot620 Not the same entity. We have Näcken in Sweden, and he lures people into the water. I'm pretty sure, because of the mentioning of the rams hoof, that it's the devil or one of his minions that's playing the people of Hårga to death.
Thank you for the translation! However, I think the second and fifth verse are not in this song
@@thehorriblebright that to me just sounds like a christianized version of the Nøkken/Näcken. Could be wrong though I suppose
That's rad like "They're still dancing?!"
loove the sound of nordic languages in music. This is beautiful!
have you given Garmarna a listen?
@@sobek yup!
tack
Depends on the language, i as a Dane myself. doesn't like most new danish music, as it's changed too much.
Honestly I clicked thinking I was going to find a black metal song lol. Anyway, this is good!
Lmao same. This was still a good song though. It’s very pretty.
Same.
Curious, did you really think black metal existed even 50 years ago let alone thousands of years?
@@dalemoore435 it really started to appear in the late 70’s/ early 80’s so it was around for almost 50 years. Also, if you look at the names of some black metal bands, you’d see why some of us were a little confused.
@@wintershock no, you are the only one confused.
My grandmother used to sing this song to me as a lullaby when I was a child. It was obviously a little bit frightening, but also beautiful. And still comforting when it was sung from my grandmother.
This is a certified hood classic
I jam this in the westside here in Kingsville Texas!!!
Fo shizzle my nizzle🤣
It definitely has some bass
Druid hood, maybe
Best comment ever.
I would like to share a very local legend that I grew up with.
When I went to middle-school (in Norway), our music teacher told us a story about the neighboring village and their fiddler. Apparently, there was at some point a ban on fiddle music, so the the village fiddler would go to the woods and play the fiddle for himself, but the wind and the echoes would carry the tunes over to our village, and so the superstitious in my village believed it to be the devil playing his his fiddle in woods.
I'm guessing that most of these myths and legends are Christianized versions of the Fossegrim and/or Nøkken stories.
Edit: Grammar
Why wouldn’t they just go into the woods and see who was playing, instead of jumping to ridiculous conclusions?
@@Davidbrompton58 more interesting that way. also if you thought the devil was out there would you go meet him!
@@tylersouzayou missed the point entirely.
Why would i think it was the devil?
My first thought would be that it’s someone attempting to avoid the ban.
@@Davidbrompton58 I remember as a young child, during a wrothful thunderstorm, my late grandfather told me it was Thor smashing his hammer.
Sometimes people just tell the old tales, simply for old tale's sake, even when they know better.
Probably a fiddler in the woods made them connect with folklore, and it was exciting. A connection with the long past is a wonderful thing, and for a brief moment, you are allowed to play their part. And scare your own children, as once was proper.
@@HansenSWEwhat is “wrothful”?
Swedish lyrics - English translation: (For those of you interested in the languages - which I read some were in the comments below)
Spelmannen drog fiol ur lådan,/
The fiddler pulled the fiddle out of the box,
och lyfte stråken högt mot söndagssolens kula,/
and raised the bow high towards Sunday's dawning sun.
Då blev det fart på Horgafolket,/
Then the people from 'Hårga' got up to speed,
de glömde Gud och hela världen/
They forgot (about) God and the whole world.
Varifrån kommer du som spelar/
From where do you come who is playing
Säg vem har lärt dig detta spel/
Tell who have taught play this way
Det vilda galna/
So (The) wild and mad.
Stannar du inte brister hjärtat/
If you don't not stop our hearts will fail/burst.
Åh gud bevare han har bockfot/
Oh God save (us) he has club feet
Klockorna hade ringt i dalen och där gick/
The bells had rung in the valley and there went
Far och mor och bror till sockenkyrkan/
Father and mother and brother to the parish church
Var kan nu Hårgas ungdom vara/
Where might "Hårgas'" youth be now
Å herregud de dansar ännu/
Oh my God they are dancing still
Hejda din stråke spelman innan du/
Stop your bow fiddler before you
Dansar liv och själ och alla ben ur kroppen/
Dance the life and soul and all the bones out from the body
Nej inte slutar han sin dans förr'ns om/
No(,) he will not stop his dance(/song) until
Allesammans faller döda/
Everybody drops down dead
*This text is written in an older vernacular form of Swedish, which isn't always as easily/readily translated into English. It's after all an old 'folk-song', where the text is based on a local legend from 'Hälsingland' (a county in Sweden) which was first recorded in 1785.
I hope it helps.
Cпасибо за объяснение 🙏
This song brings me back to childhood. I used to spend the summers in a little village 10 minutes away from Hårga.
We have an Appalachian tale about this, but the deer men will come and dance with the girls until they die and run away once it's over, only to come back again. If a man asks you to dance you look at their feet and if you see deer hooves you run away and tell the men.
😂😂😂 always double-check the feet
Such a beautiful language combined with beautiful female vocals and amazing music is a delight! A bewitching creation!
My god this video made me cry happy tears! I've grown up with this song very close to my heart since my family has always loved it and have sung it together multiple times. And the song always had a magical feel to me.
I live in Bollnäs. Bollnäs is the muncipally where Hårgaberget(Hårga Mountain), and Hårga village is located. And I drive through the cute little Hårga village regularly.
The song reminds me of my great grandmother who was amazing at playing the "nyckelharpa"(the Nyckelharpa is a traditional Swedish string instrument)
and she used to travel all around Hälsingland(a province where Bollnäs and Hårga is located) playing the song and multiple other songs most of her life.
The last time i heard her play the nyckelharpa she was 93 years old and me, my mun and my boyfriend visited her for a "fika" and someone mentioned her musical skills and she sprung up out of her seat with a big smile and fetched the nyckelharpa and sat down and started playing for us.
She was strong and healthy even for her old age but her fingers were of course more shaky and not as quick as they used to be but that almost made it more beautiful.
Thank you for making this video and exposing this music to a wider audience so that more people might find the magic in it!
Absolutely stunning song and haunting story. The instrumentation at times reminds one of Loreena McKennitt's Celtic folk music, and a good reminder of how all good music is connected.
Clicked on this expecting to be just another song from another Viking Metal band that I didn't know yet... well, that was a surprise!
Beautiful song! It gave me chills!!!!
Just searched for the full album and I'm currently listening to it. I'm loving it!
same here
Welcome to swedish folk music, the precursor of our metal scene. Folk music was demonized by the church back in the day, hence why the devil is often portrayed playing a fiddle. The church did not like swedish folk.
Edit. i can recommend Scandinavian folk on Nyckelharpa by Myrkur. Its played on a instrument thats actually a swedish invention,. The key harp. It was featured on one of our money bills until they changed the currencly some years back.
After discovered heilung and danheim, I discovered other music like this. They're great
One of the best tunes to come from Sweden, and a wonderfully haunting rendition of it.
I have always loved these kinds of songs about sagas or some folklore story from another time and life! The Old Norse language and those the derive from that language is so beautiful and I also just discovered I have Scottish, Indeginous people and Norwegian/Danish blood
I went up on Hårgaberget today, for the first time. Such a surreal feeling for someone who's been fascinated by our old Folk legends.
The legend of Hårga is very precious to me as someone who is also local to the landscape. I remember being taught the song when I was in third grade.
Thank you for making this!
Ten years ago, your music was rubbing salt into my wounds. Now, it heals.
Enchanting music and vocals.
Eyyyyyy, it's BMP!! 🤘
@@chiefbrownfart
I moved from Sweden 10 years ago and this is the most beautiful song i heard since then. Very sentimental. Want to go back 😁
The Norse mythology is probably the most accurate depiction we have of ancient Europe before the Romans invaded, in Britain where I'm from for example we know was the focal point of Druid practice and yet, we have no idea what they actually practiced, the Romans wiped everything out.
Nie powinniśmy zatracać swojej kultury w imię źle pojętego "postępu". Taka myśl naszła podczas słuchania tej magicznej melodii... Piękne!
Це просто насолода для вух та душі ❤️
ты хоть перевод знаешь?)))
@@user-yk1hn2xj9q тyпe питання якщо чесно
Є-є-є! Ще хтось з України тут 😊 Так, класна пісня! А дехто, мабуть, не знає, що просто хороша музика може бути насолодою для душі...
As i Swede, i feel privileged to understand what they sing about!
Lemme guess, meatballs and IKEA! Just kidding, I love you Swedes so much!🥰 All my favorite bands are from Sweden! Opeth, Ghost, In Flames, Soilwork, Etc. You guys ROCK! 🤘
Tror Hårgalåten är inspirerad av den mass hysteri som pågick under 1500 talet. Nån slags mental sjukdom fick dom att börja dansa konstant. Det sägs ha börjat i Tyskland men spred sig snabbt runt hela Europa.
I played this on violin, almost completly perfect when i was 9 years old.
as a finnish i understood some parts of it :)
Another person wrote this
"Hårgadansen or Hårgasägnen is a legend about how the devil himself, disguised as a fiddler, made the young people in the village of Hårga in Hälsingland dance themselves to death"
This does sounds an awfully alot like some version of the creature known as Näcken in some folktales.
Helt fantastiskt!!! Brukar kolla runt på nätet efter nya versioner av denna visa, och äntligen kom den bästa. Denna visa ligger mig väldigt varmt om hjärtat då jag bor endast ett stenkast ifrån Hårgaåsens fot, och därmed är uppväxt med denna mytomspunna sägen. Tack så mycket för detta vackra verk.
Jag saknar det råa ljudet av fiolen när den spelar melodin, det är till och med mer emotionellt än sången!
Hellas
i'm gonna have to thank In Flames for introducing me to traditional swedish music
I have no idea how I ended up here in the wee hours of the morning, but I'm glad I did, this is a wonderful audiovisual work
Makes me feel the world i've never seen, live the spirits i've never met and know the ancestors' life i've never known... Thank you so much... From TURKEY
Beautiful is the only word that comes to mind
wow, there's this legend of Krysař, here in Moravia, comig from Germany, about the exact same thing.
The best Hårgalåten performance yet ❤
I love this. I am very into nordic sounds. I find this sound very relaxing and it is beautiful.
I grew up with it as a native Swede.
Sometimes it makes my heart bleed.
We must love nature as it love us, not to destroy it. Beautiful song, thumbs up!
Absolutely beatiful music and violin
One of the most beautiful languages ever.
Definitely
Fun Fact: This old folk tale/song was the inspiration for a certain song about the Devil challenging a boy in Georgia to a fiddle contest. 😈
The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 (French: Épidémie dansante de 1518), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518. Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for weeks. There are many theories behind the phenomenon, the most popular being stress-induced mass hysteria, suggested by John Waller.[1][2] Other theories include ergot and religious explanations. There is controversy concerning the number of deaths.[3]
From wiki.
I don't know why but I feel relax and happy when i listen to this music
You should try dancing to this video on a loop
@@tarbuckle2 I don't think so man I'm a terrible dancer if I did it would be an insult to the music 😂
I wanna be Viking so hard with this music
I am one
Midsommar vibes and great music
This just takes me away from the stress of life the music the language it's just completely peaceful and beautiful
It's all fun and games until you can't quit...
More youth lost to the fiddle of the Nøkken. Always beware these magic and ancient spirits and pay heed to our stories
Well, this suddenly appeared in my YT Home, I liked. 👍👍
Warm, simple, happy, pacific, clear song....Nice to soul sometimes.
Wickerman vibes!
the old movie is so fucking good
Tous ce que vous avez fait est magnifique.
Jolie musique et superbe clip.
Bravo à vous tous pour cette très belle création.
Everything you have done is wonderful.
Nice music and great clip.
Congratulations to all of you for this very beautiful creation.
Beautiful. (And the vocals remind me very much of Emma Härdelin.)
Ich kenne die Band als sie sich noch Apati nannte und habe einen ähnlichen Lebensstil geführt. Viele Drogen und eine lebensverneinende Einstellung zum Leben gehabt. Ich fühle mich mit der Band sehr verbunden und freue mich über diesen Wandel. In tiefer Verbundenheit, liebe Grüße aus Sachsen / Deutschland
This song fills me with so much joy and sadness at the same time. Love it! ❤
they are following the success recipe of her manneling. and they are doing it right
probably mjöldryga was the origin story of this like the Dancing Plague of 1518
I dont think Ive ever saved a song to my UA-cam playlist faster! Holy shit!
Finally a great swedish folk song played beautifully 👌🏻 kæmpe respekt fra Danmark 🇩🇰
Do you have some rekomendation of a Danish folk song?
@@yosimonthedawghsearch: Asynje - Hr Oluf
@@EmilReiko tack!
Denne traff virkelig sjelen. Historien bak, låten og videoen. Virkelig bra. Takk.
Nobody does beauty and despair like Ofdrykkja
The recording and sound mastering is absolutely enchanting
Absolutely. I came here from the Horror History of The May Queen/Midsommar, and this was the second version I found (the first was the version the lecturer [CZ, I think is his name?] recommended, but wasn't a fan of that). Honestly, it's my preferred version of Hargalaten.
Breathtakingly beautiful ❤
What a dark song
That is the most perfect song I heard
Greetings from Brazil! Another outstanding music vídeo! It just made me listen the whole album and I must say, what a perfection! Keep up with the great job!
Riktigt bra jobbat, en klassiker som fått en ny magisk touch.
Reminds me of the band Skald. I love this soooo much.
НОРДЫ. У НАС ОДНА КРОВЬ! мы северный народ!!!!!!! и боги у нас одни!
Ты один из немногих, кто знает смысл происходящего в клипе)
song of the year
classic music, I like the song greetings from Indonesia
Stunning and majestic af. Those Swedes and their freakish musical gifts eh.
Music that i listen to while hiking in Iceland , Norway and latest Kungsleden Trail - Swedisch Lappland Abisko to Hemavan
Wonderful, I applaud for you my friends. The evolutionary cross of ofdrykkja just marvel at me.
Зловещая красота! Визуал просто шикарный! В совокупности с прекрасным вокалом - до мурашек!
про что поют?
@@user-yk1hn2xj9q да пох😉 те какую? Правую или.. 🤫🤣🤣И если я пральна понял это финны.
This kind of reminds me of the dance marathons that happened in America during the 1920s and 1930s. People would compete for prize money to see who could continue dancing the longest. When I learned about it the teacher tried to make it sound like a fun event to go and watch. I remember thinking how much it would have sucked to dance that long only to lose. And for the winner the prize was a little money. I wondered how much that prize money would get them in the long run. Was it really a substantial amount or did the majority of the money from the spectators go to the organizers? This video really made me think of that.
That's just lovely! Most of my family is from around Bollnäs so it struck close to my heart.
sublime❤ quanto è bella questa frequenza incredibilmente bella
Красиво и зловеще, мурашки по коже! 🔥
altså er majestetisk låt vi ikke fortjener. Tusen takk igjen, ofdrykkja.
Not expecting it , but totally loving the surprise now.
So beautiful 🥰❤️💫💚
I was instantly drawn to this video because of the Horned God imagery. Nordic men are absolutely beautiful!. This is definitely a new favorite song of mine in addition to Avfard and The Cleansing from this band. I love seeing the diversity, it made me smile. I cannot understand the language, but Nordic folk music has always been one of my favorite genres of music, as a black American. Must be my ancient Danish ancestors. Love that this video to this song popped up on my feed. ❤
you're black you have no danish ancestors and black people shouldn't have been in this music video
@@niccolocoletti7507You are welcome to “your” opinion, but it’s “your” opinion. LOL And I do have Nordic ancestry: it’s Norwegian, along with Zeeland (Dutch), Iceland & Faroe Islands via my DNA test, along with all of Northern France- in addition to lower Germany bordering France…it’s just not Danish, as I thought. Music isn’t a race….
When the devil is playing sick riffs. You dance
That's not what it's about.... thanks for playing though
@@theunknownshadowish pretty sure it is though…..
That is exactly what it is about.
We always play this as the opening track at our midsummer raves.
@@DissyK "Hårgalåten", or the "Harga song", is a Swedish folk song. The song is connected to a 1785 story published by Johan Gabriel Lindstrom.[1] The song describes how a mysterious fiddler came to the community near Hårgaberget [sv] or "Harga mountain", and played the fiddle. The youth danced to the tune that the fiddler played and they were unable to stop. Some of the youth noticed a cloven hoof, leading them to believe the fiddler was demonic. Even as morning came, the adults noticed they were all still dancing, and the fiddler still fiddling. Later, the dancers started dropping dead from exhaustion.
There is nothing that links the fiddler to "the devil" in the slightest so again, not what it's about.... similar to what was stated in the op comment... but still not the same
@@DissyK look it up yourself mate
LINDO Outra atmosfera...
Found this track looking for another version by In Flames. This track is phenomenal!
The In Flames instrumental is pretty good as well.
Thank you for this beautifull work… that was just brilliant and totally brought me in another mood ! Hails from
Switzerland :)
Прекрасно все! И клип и музыка!)) Браво!!!
про что поют?
@@user-yk1hn2xj9q история о том, как сам дьявол, переодетый скрипачом, заставил молодых людей в деревне Хорга в Хельсингланде танцевать до смерти.
@@user-yk1hn2xj9q эльсканая шведятинка
despite the translation, I saw the imagery as being a stark portrayal of the loss of girlhood upon the preying eyes of man, the loss of authority of the freedom of pure self to the dredges of the blood of womanhood, the primal urge to keep what was, the fear of what is to come as we watch our fallen sisters succumb to the pain and suffering at men's hands, the soft ground being the only repose left for our souls after having endured their violent gaze ...
belissimo. parabens. que qualidade!
Hermoso vídeo!!! Love how you transmit this Historical lore! Muchas Gracias bello trabajo🌊🌲🌈🍻🔥 hola from the Caribbean Island Puerto Rico🏝
Meine Gene erinnern sich mit jedem Ton und mit jeder Melodie! Mine gener husker hver tone og hver melodi.
Haha ganz bestimmt. Man kanns auch übertreiben
Stupenda
Wow. OK. Ofdrykkja has now officially entered the circle of my all-time favorite bands all genres combined, sharing the space with bands like Arabrot and others. So much better than all this shamanic/new-age mongolian/amerindian "viking" folk trend, Ofdrykkja delivers something closer to the greatness of british 60's-70's prog-folk/wyrd-folk bands (whatever you call it), but more modern, scandinavian, and with a real eerie vibe, or somewhere close to Mosaic and +1476+. The beauty, the purity, and disturbing weird delicacy of a snowflake.
Absolutely outstanding version!! 🔥🔥
Proud to be from Hälsingland 🐐
jag också, vart på Hårgaberget ?
Beautiful..For a Beautiful country too..😔
Esto es particularmente hermoso. Es una trágica belleza
hauntingly beautiful
I was waiting whole time when guitars and double bass drum kicks in :-) Good music and video anyway :-)
Man I was searching so long for this song
Jag kommer att älska varje sekund av detta🥀🍁
The first shots reminded me of "The Rite of Spring".
I just realized that Hårga community was also in Midsommar horror movie :) Anyway beautiful song for sure..