When I listen to German music I can understand some or most of it, depending on the artist, but when I look up the lyrics, sometimes it is quite a bit different than I thought, but it is an opportunity to learn a few new words. Volksmusik often has the simplest lyrics and is the easiest to understand. Faun sings in a beautiful Hochdeutsch (mainstream German). I would say their lyrics are pretty sophisticated and interesting, like poetic lyrics. I filmed Faun when they were in Toronto in October 2024 on their first North American tour, and have posted their performance of the song Walpurgisnacht in a playlist of songs from the concert. You are right about them being photogenic and very interesting to film - I really enjoyed the opportunity. Killian Keuchel is a really excellent filmmaker who has produced a lot of their videos. The light shows at their concerts are something amazing as well. This is a link to my live video of the song. I included some of the lyrics with a translation, with a link to where the rest of them can be found with translation. Their lyrics are very catchy and you can learn the refrain if you want to sing along. Some of their lyrics are tongue twisters if you are learning German, but a good exercise to try to sing along at speed - which could take quite a few times practicing along with the song. Traditionally the divine pair's wedding they are singing about is between Freyr and Gerda, where there would be dances around a Maypole to celebrate. Walpurgisnacht - Faun in Toronto 1 October, 2024 ua-cam.com/video/pVOQqToWkmk/v-deo.html Another very beautiful song they sing at the end of each show is Wenn wir uns wiedersehen, (When we will see each other again) which has tongue twister lyrics if you are learning the language, and takes some practice to be able to sing it at speed. Wenn wir uns wiedersehen - Faun (Official video) ua-cam.com/video/TsKpe3wY8Sg/v-deo.html Lyrics and translations of many Faun songs lyricstranslate.com/en/faun-lyrics.html The guitar-violin looking instrument is called a Nyckelharpa, which is the national instrument of Sweden. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyckelharpa Another German band which has popularized the Nyckelharpa is Poeta Magica. They are also mystical like Faun but more traditional folk. www.youtube.com/@poetamagica/videos Faun plays a large number of different interesting instruments, and are really talented musicians, as well as excellent live performers. I hope they visit North America on tour again - it is a show really worth seeing.
The Walpurgis Night is still a thing in Germany, for heathens or pagan people, it's a pre christian holiday, it's on the night from 30th of April to the first of may. In modern Germany we have something called Tanz in den Mai or dance into may (the 1. of may is a national holiday) so people come together and dance in clubs or in the wild around a campfire or just meet friends. The girls in the video are wrapping ribbons around a may tree and we still have that tradition, people (mostly young men) wrapping ribbons around a small may tree and place it in front of the homes of loved ones to show some affection (usually there is also a cardboard hearth with the name of the girl/ boy wrapped in the tree). We are a very old country and we love our traditions. ;)
Walpurgisnacht coincides with the one of the high holy pagan festivals, Beltane. The fire symbolism is important, fire, smoke, and ash all are sacred protective things, made to ward off evil spirits and celebrate the coming of spring, a time of rebirth and fertility.
I saw them live two weeks ago (MPS Speyer), they are just great! They also sing in english and other languages. They are touring the USA from the end of September! Their official video for “Tamlin and the Fairy Queen” came out today. Check it out! Very nice song! BTW: The instruments are a "Schlüsselfidel" (swedish Nyckelharpa) and "Drehleier" (english Hurdy Gurdy).
Walpurgis Night (Walpurgisnacht) or Saint Walpurgis Night is a traditional pre-Christian northern and central European festival, sometimes with the custom of fire, on April 30th. Once persecuted, now celebrated: women dressed as witches celebrate Walpurgis Night on the Blocksberg. In the Middle Ages, possessed women allegedly celebrated an orgy with the devil around the fire. They are forced to confess under torture that they are "witches". Among them are midwives, widows and even children. The intruments u ask for are "Hurdy Gurdy" & "Nickelharpa" Thx for reacting to Faun. Please react to Faun&Eluveitie "Gwydon" and " Neun Welten" from Faum. Greets from Germany TW ⚠⚡⚡⚡
I don’t think “pre-Christian” is accurate since it was named after Saint Walpurga. Unless you mean the celebration itself predates Christianity even though the current namesake is of a Christian saint.
@@DrockDrack The original celtic name is "Beltane". At least this is the only name we have left from the irish. The romans destroid sadly a lot of the old artefacts that had the reginal names for this festival on it. The german tribes called it "Hohe Maien" the norse called it "Sigrblót". Btw. Walburgisnacht is not named after Saint Walburgis but after the "Wallburg". The fortifications of the germanic antice times.
Yes, you can translate that to a key harp. Usually it has 4 strings and you can alter the tone with the keys like on a hurdy gurdy, they are very similar. It was mostly used in Sweden, Denmark or Germany or the northern European realms and dating back to the 15th/ 16th century.
You pronounced it right. I saw Faun at Castlefest earlier this month. They were awesome. And yes that was a hurdy gurdy, in dutch we call it a 'draailier' the other one I don't know what it's called
The 2nd instrument is the Swedish nyckelharpa. They are celebrating the eve of Mayday, when witches fly through the air. You also see the handfasting of Cernunnos, Celtic god of Nature, forest, animals and the wild...his bride is the Greek goddess of magic , Hecate, wearing the symbol of the triple moon.
Please do "FAUN ft ELUVEITIE - GWYDION", a mix between German pagan folk and Swiss folk metal, another masterpiece of music, at least in my opinion.... Stay safe and greetz from Germany... Edit: instrument u are wondering about is a NYCKELHARPA. It is a bowed chordophone, similar in appearance to a fiddle or violin but larger (in its earlier forms essentially a modified vielle), which employs key-actuated tangents along the neck to change the pitch during play, much like a hurdy-gurdy.
It describes night before May the first! "Auch bekakannt als Hexennacht" (The night wheb witches dance to welccme the spring and pray for the abilility to get many kids) We Germans call that thing "Drehleier"
Walpurgisnacht это буквально ночь всех ведьм, переход от календарной весны к лету, эта ночь считается магической.=) А у Faun много приятных на слух песен.=)
thats actually the point of the video - the Night of Walpurgis, was celebrated way before todays Christmas . until the end of the Middle ages, so tnil the area of 1400 ...
Faun is definitely worth a deep dive. I discovered them back in 2014 when I went with some friends to an outdoor weekend pagan gathering near Portland, Oregon called FaerieWorlds. Faun was the music headliner. Totally fell in love with their music that night. Went to FaerieWorlds the nest year to see them again. They're all about Germanic paganism. If you get a chance to see them live, do it. ua-cam.com/video/Qi4dLik43SM/v-deo.html
It seems primitive and pagan. I hope that the ritual of this night brings good things in the morning. I have to look up hurdy gurdy so that I know what I’m looking for. I did enjoy the music, as it was somewhat soothing sounding. Kudos to Howling Wolf for another adventure. Catch y’all on Warning Wednesday!! 🎶 Cyd
As a German I can say you are in no way fluent. Fluent means being on a native speaker level and not just picking out some words and translating them (some wrongly I might add: Nacht is night and not naked, which is nackt, Zauberwald means magic forest and not cleanliness, which is sauber and Walpurgis has nothing to do with clouds, which are Wolken) and not understanding the grammar at all. It seems you are more on a basic level. I can understand that it's difficult if you listen to music and try to pick out the lyrics and while reading there are some words that are more poetic or not used as often in day to day conversation (like Geigen meaning violins), but you can only become fluent if you immerse yourself in a language. I can write sentences in full English but i still have spelling errors, grammatical missteps and have to seach for some words and speaking it is anyther matter entirely so I wouldn't consider myself fluent either. It's okay not to be fluent in a second (or third or whatever) language but it's weird and annoying to me that many Americans state they're fluent in this or that language but they can't even communicate in or understand full sentences.
Wow. You may have missed some context. When living and working in Switzerland, I was fluent. I have been out of practice since being gone (for well over a decade) and not speaking German much, but I can still hold a conversation. If you want to be up in arms about semantics, go for it. Most decent folks are happy that an American can hold a conversation in another language. But you can choose to be annoyed if you’d like. Also, about nacht/nackt…that’s literally what I was saying. Maybe you misunderstood. I know the difference. Also, when something is not your native language, and you’re listening to music, trying to pick out EVERYTHING, it’s pretty obvious that being a human being means I can misunderstand a word for something I thought sounded similar. Again…rather than worrying about the semantics of being fluent, and taking the time, leaving me a paragraph of you telling me how much I don’t know…maybe try and understand rather than criticize. Excuse me for saying fluent. When I could have a conversation in German, with people who speak German, to ME, that’s being fluent (even if I’m out of practice. Perhaps if I said “WAS” fluent, I could make you less annoyed?). Hearing a song for the first time and misunderstanding while trying to take in everything else, hardly shows what I can do. Maybe keep some of this stuff in mind next time you want to “correct” someone.
If you know the basics of a language, you DON'T speak it fluently. Fluently means that you have a proficiency on a (near) native level, basic means that you can just make yourself understood, bring over the message. Just saying.
Well, if I could speak German enough to engage in conversation with anyone in Germany, and work in retail in Switzerland, speaking the language…I’d consider that fluent. Maybe you’re new here…but I’ve mentioned in other videos that when I lived in Switzerland, it was well over a decade ago, and I am WAY out of practice. Which is why I’m happy to hear German, and I try to engage when I can. Perhaps that can give you a little insight. 🤘🏽😎🤘🏽
@@musikbyjh I'm a teacher by profession, and I've noticed that especially Americans overqualify their proficiency in other languages. There's an international standard for proficiency. A1 & A2 are really considered basic proficiency. C1 is near-native, and C2 is native on a professional level. I always tell my students: if you really want to learn a language, submerge yourself in a culture that speaks said language. Music in the target language also helps, especially with vocabulary and pronunciation. Just a free tip ☺
@@musikbyjh Well, listening to music in German does help, also with the vocabulary. I teach Dutch to foreigners (Dutch is one of my native tongues, along with Limburgish and German - my grandma was German), and a weekly assignment to my students is to listen to a Dutch song, pull up the song text along with it, an write down every word they're unfamiliar with - and look it up in the dictionary. I haven't spoken German that much lately myself, but I grew up with it. So maybe I did benefit from that.
When I listen to German music I can understand some or most of it, depending on the artist, but when I look up the lyrics, sometimes it is quite a bit different than I thought, but it is an opportunity to learn a few new words. Volksmusik often has the simplest lyrics and is the easiest to understand. Faun sings in a beautiful Hochdeutsch (mainstream German). I would say their lyrics are pretty sophisticated and interesting, like poetic lyrics. I filmed Faun when they were in Toronto in October 2024 on their first North American tour, and have posted their performance of the song Walpurgisnacht in a playlist of songs from the concert. You are right about them being photogenic and very interesting to film - I really enjoyed the opportunity. Killian Keuchel is a really excellent filmmaker who has produced a lot of their videos. The light shows at their concerts are something amazing as well.
This is a link to my live video of the song. I included some of the lyrics with a translation, with a link to where the rest of them can be found with translation. Their lyrics are very catchy and you can learn the refrain if you want to sing along. Some of their lyrics are tongue twisters if you are learning German, but a good exercise to try to sing along at speed - which could take quite a few times practicing along with the song. Traditionally the divine pair's wedding they are singing about is between Freyr and Gerda, where there would be dances around a Maypole to celebrate.
Walpurgisnacht - Faun in Toronto 1 October, 2024
ua-cam.com/video/pVOQqToWkmk/v-deo.html
Another very beautiful song they sing at the end of each show is Wenn wir uns wiedersehen, (When we will see each other again) which has tongue twister lyrics if you are learning the language, and takes some practice to be able to sing it at speed.
Wenn wir uns wiedersehen - Faun (Official video)
ua-cam.com/video/TsKpe3wY8Sg/v-deo.html
Lyrics and translations of many Faun songs
lyricstranslate.com/en/faun-lyrics.html
The guitar-violin looking instrument is called a Nyckelharpa, which is the national instrument of Sweden.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyckelharpa
Another German band which has popularized the Nyckelharpa is Poeta Magica. They are also mystical like Faun but more traditional folk.
www.youtube.com/@poetamagica/videos
Faun plays a large number of different interesting instruments, and are really talented musicians, as well as excellent live performers. I hope they visit North America on tour again - it is a show really worth seeing.
The Walpurgis Night is still a thing in Germany, for heathens or pagan people, it's a pre christian holiday, it's on the night from 30th of April to the first of may. In modern Germany we have something called Tanz in den Mai or dance into may (the 1. of may is a national holiday) so people come together and dance in clubs or in the wild around a campfire or just meet friends. The girls in the video are wrapping ribbons around a may tree and we still have that tradition, people (mostly young men) wrapping ribbons around a small may tree and place it in front of the homes of loved ones to show some affection (usually there is also a cardboard hearth with the name of the girl/ boy wrapped in the tree). We are a very old country and we love our traditions. ;)
Love them! So glad someone requested them.
Walpurgisnacht coincides with the one of the high holy pagan festivals, Beltane. The fire symbolism is important, fire, smoke, and ash all are sacred protective things, made to ward off evil spirits and celebrate the coming of spring, a time of rebirth and fertility.
I saw them live two weeks ago (MPS Speyer), they are just great! They also sing in english and other languages. They are touring the USA from the end of September!
Their official video for “Tamlin and the Fairy Queen” came out today. Check it out! Very nice song!
BTW: The instruments are a "Schlüsselfidel" (swedish Nyckelharpa) and "Drehleier" (english Hurdy Gurdy).
Walpurgis Night (Walpurgisnacht) or Saint Walpurgis Night is a traditional pre-Christian northern and central European festival, sometimes with the custom of fire, on April 30th.
Once persecuted, now celebrated: women dressed as witches celebrate Walpurgis Night on the Blocksberg. In the Middle Ages, possessed women allegedly celebrated an orgy with the devil around the fire. They are forced to confess under torture that they are "witches". Among them are midwives, widows and even children. The intruments u ask for are "Hurdy Gurdy" & "Nickelharpa" Thx for reacting to Faun. Please react to Faun&Eluveitie "Gwydon" and " Neun Welten" from Faum. Greets from Germany TW ⚠⚡⚡⚡
I don’t think “pre-Christian” is accurate since it was named after Saint Walpurga. Unless you mean the celebration itself predates Christianity even though the current namesake is of a Christian saint.
@@DrockDrack The original celtic name is "Beltane". At least this is the only name we have left from the irish. The romans destroid sadly a lot of the old artefacts that had the reginal names for this festival on it. The german tribes called it "Hohe Maien" the norse called it "Sigrblót". Btw. Walburgisnacht is not named after Saint Walburgis but after the "Wallburg". The fortifications of the germanic antice times.
man youtube really managed to burrow that video. thx for the reaction :)
The bowed instrument is called a Nyckelharpa
Yes, you can translate that to a key harp. Usually it has 4 strings and you can alter the tone with the keys like on a hurdy gurdy, they are very similar. It was mostly used in Sweden, Denmark or Germany or the northern European realms and dating back to the 15th/ 16th century.
Heard about this band in a pagan group on FB years ago and still enjoying their music. They did a live song called Odin with the singer of Wardruna..
I love Faun! You will too.
You pronounced it right. I saw Faun at Castlefest earlier this month. They were awesome. And yes that was a hurdy gurdy, in dutch we call it a 'draailier' the other one I don't know what it's called
The 2nd instrument is the Swedish nyckelharpa.
They are celebrating the eve of Mayday, when witches fly through the air.
You also see the handfasting of Cernunnos, Celtic god of Nature, forest, animals and the wild...his bride is the Greek goddess of magic , Hecate, wearing the symbol of the triple moon.
amazing how a single letter changes the meaning of an entire word, for example: zauber, a spell, sauber, clean
So true.
Please do "FAUN ft ELUVEITIE - GWYDION", a mix between German pagan folk and Swiss folk metal, another masterpiece of music, at least in my opinion....
Stay safe and greetz from Germany...
Edit: instrument u are wondering about is a NYCKELHARPA. It is a bowed chordophone, similar in appearance to a fiddle or violin but larger (in its earlier forms essentially a modified vielle), which employs key-actuated tangents along the neck to change the pitch during play, much like a hurdy-gurdy.
It describes night before May the first! "Auch bekakannt als Hexennacht" (The night wheb witches dance to welccme the spring and pray for the abilility to get many kids)
We Germans call that thing "Drehleier"
Walpurgisnacht это буквально ночь всех ведьм, переход от календарной весны к лету, эта ночь считается магической.=)
А у Faun много приятных на слух песен.=)
I think you would like Scardust ft. Patty Gurdy "Concrete Cages"
What a great sound and images. I felt like I was witnessing some kind of ancient ritual. ❤🎶
thats actually the point of the video - the Night of Walpurgis, was celebrated way before todays Christmas . until the end of the Middle ages, so tnil the area of 1400 ...
Walpurgisnacht is celebrate on Beltane... like Halloween is on Samhain.. the pagan solstice.....one is a hurdy gurdy the other is a nickelharp
Faun is definitely worth a deep dive. I discovered them back in 2014 when I went with some friends to an outdoor weekend pagan gathering near Portland, Oregon called FaerieWorlds. Faun was the music headliner. Totally fell in love with their music that night. Went to FaerieWorlds the nest year to see them again. They're all about Germanic paganism. If you get a chance to see them live, do it.
ua-cam.com/video/Qi4dLik43SM/v-deo.html
I saw them last night. Love FAUN! Great show!!!
It seems primitive and pagan. I hope that the ritual of this night brings good things in the morning. I have to look up hurdy gurdy so that I know what I’m looking for. I did enjoy the music, as it was somewhat soothing sounding. Kudos to Howling Wolf for another adventure. Catch y’all on Warning Wednesday!! 🎶 Cyd
Why thank you!
Zauberwald.. something about cleaning.. 😂😂😂 No, that's not it.
In short hear the misic and sance to please the gods!
Let him translate please... 😃😃🤣
It’s a guitarolin! 🎸 🎻
He don´t speak german at all... believe me...
As a German I can say you are in no way fluent. Fluent means being on a native speaker level and not just picking out some words and translating them (some wrongly I might add: Nacht is night and not naked, which is nackt, Zauberwald means magic forest and not cleanliness, which is sauber and Walpurgis has nothing to do with clouds, which are Wolken) and not understanding the grammar at all. It seems you are more on a basic level. I can understand that it's difficult if you listen to music and try to pick out the lyrics and while reading there are some words that are more poetic or not used as often in day to day conversation (like Geigen meaning violins), but you can only become fluent if you immerse yourself in a language.
I can write sentences in full English but i still have spelling errors, grammatical missteps and have to seach for some words and speaking it is anyther matter entirely so I wouldn't consider myself fluent either. It's okay not to be fluent in a second (or third or whatever) language but it's weird and annoying to me that many Americans state they're fluent in this or that language but they can't even communicate in or understand full sentences.
Wow. You may have missed some context. When living and working in Switzerland, I was fluent. I have been out of practice since being gone (for well over a decade) and not speaking German much, but I can still hold a conversation. If you want to be up in arms about semantics, go for it. Most decent folks are happy that an American can hold a conversation in another language. But you can choose to be annoyed if you’d like.
Also, about nacht/nackt…that’s literally what I was saying. Maybe you misunderstood. I know the difference. Also, when something is not your native language, and you’re listening to music, trying to pick out EVERYTHING, it’s pretty obvious that being a human being means I can misunderstand a word for something I thought sounded similar.
Again…rather than worrying about the semantics of being fluent, and taking the time, leaving me a paragraph of you telling me how much I don’t know…maybe try and understand rather than criticize.
Excuse me for saying fluent. When I could have a conversation in German, with people who speak German, to ME, that’s being fluent (even if I’m out of practice. Perhaps if I said “WAS” fluent, I could make you less annoyed?). Hearing a song for the first time and misunderstanding while trying to take in everything else, hardly shows what I can do. Maybe keep some of this stuff in mind next time you want to “correct” someone.
If you know the basics of a language, you DON'T speak it fluently. Fluently means that you have a proficiency on a (near) native level, basic means that you can just make yourself understood, bring over the message. Just saying.
Well, if I could speak German enough to engage in conversation with anyone in Germany, and work in retail in Switzerland, speaking the language…I’d consider that fluent. Maybe you’re new here…but I’ve mentioned in other videos that when I lived in Switzerland, it was well over a decade ago, and I am WAY out of practice. Which is why I’m happy to hear German, and I try to engage when I can. Perhaps that can give you a little insight.
🤘🏽😎🤘🏽
@@musikbyjh I'm a teacher by profession, and I've noticed that especially Americans overqualify their proficiency in other languages. There's an international standard for proficiency. A1 & A2 are really considered basic proficiency. C1 is near-native, and C2 is native on a professional level.
I always tell my students: if you really want to learn a language, submerge yourself in a culture that speaks said language. Music in the target language also helps, especially with vocabulary and pronunciation.
Just a free tip ☺
@@musikbyjh Oh! And basic knowledge is not wrong at all. As long as you can make the message clear what you want to express, it's OK.
@@musikbyjh Well, listening to music in German does help, also with the vocabulary. I teach Dutch to foreigners (Dutch is one of my native tongues, along with Limburgish and German - my grandma was German), and a weekly assignment to my students is to listen to a Dutch song, pull up the song text along with it, an write down every word they're unfamiliar with - and look it up in the dictionary. I haven't spoken German that much lately myself, but I grew up with it. So maybe I did benefit from that.