Eivør is amazingly talented. I love how she can sing in a sweet angelic voice and also sing with the power of a warrior. I'm so happy she will be performing here in Australia in November with another band I love - Heilung. I have my ticket already. I've watched a lot of reactors and I think you are very good at what you are doing and your insights are very perceptive and empathic.
She is so good! I will check out more of her music. So cool you will get to see her. I already wish you a great time! Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate that.
Whimsical. Ancient. Roots. Sounds almost tribal. To be there…the vibe must have been unbelievable. Can you imagine if you were camping close by and this unknowingly came through the woods to you!!! 😮 Ha! Just wrote that and you then talked walking through the woods.
The way she sing without word out over the mountains It has a name sorry i have forgotten what its called but in the very old time they used that technic to call in the sheeps in the evening.
Eivor worked on the soundtrack for The Last Kingdom series - especially the first volume is absolutely worth listening to. There's something so haunting about her voice.
"Bound by trolls" loosely translates as bewitched, in a good sense usually - I was bewitched by my girlfriends beauty. It's a love song. It is the near-religious experience one can get from beautiful nature or the unconditional love received from your beloved. You have a good "ø"-sound - it's simply the "i"-vowel from girl (gørl). As a Norwegian, Pharoese is mutually somewhat intelligible (we say trollbundet). Think Scots-American English.
Singing without words -also done by Aurora and Ren (and probaly many others...) is called vocalising. This was filmed in Westnorway; Eivor is on the soundtrack to several movies/shows, and your pronounciasion was spot on.👍 Greetigs from Denmark. 🇩🇰
@@SaeedReacts.what you can hear with the yodel-like sound here is a vocal technique called kulning, an ancient herding call that travels over long distances and a throat singing technique, where she also sings while inhaling.
Oh, please also chek out "Anouana" the mv. by Heillung; a german/norweigen/danish - kind of "akaeological music" band ( that sounded weired...😅) playing their interpetation of pre-norse music (bronzeage)
If you want to see another Eivør performance , in a modern setting (no rural dress 🙂) but as enchanting as this one, look for "Eivør - Falling Free (Live at the Old Theater in Torshavn)"
If you look into the folklore Odin or Wotan is the wizard in the culture that is from or imbedded in this very Fjord and he is a masculine nature spirit of the Nordic or Anglo ethnos... He tells riddles and is a solitary wonderer...
@@SaeedReacts. The etymology of the day Wednesday is after his namesake Wotan in the Britanies (UK) the Britanie version of original Odin. His consort Frigg and Freja are one the same and the etymon of the Friday is her namesake. We named the days of the week in honor to the nature spirits we came from. The Nordic/Germanic languages are the root of English and all European languages. And the letters originate from the Runr which as legend goes Odin sacrificed himself and his right eye for to the 3 nornes. In return they gave him the alphabet of which what English now originates from from the Nordic languages. The Runr are also ancestral cartouches, they are both sigils and the origin of all European languages. There is a bit of corruption due the conquest of the Abrahamics (Not actually native to anyone) and def not native to the North or Isles but those of the ethnos if they stay connected to nature and roots can often feel their way through the corruptions or misdirection's. It was only in recent times that the Runr was aloud to be used again. Across the Britain's it was a death sentence to be writing or using the old language in the same way you were imprisoned or deported if you were Irish Or Scotts and refused to speak English. Many Gael folks were sent of the prison island Im now in 'Australia' for still speaking Irish or Scotts. The way she sings is also of Galdra/Norne wise workers usually women and magic workers which is feminine. Also referred to as Wics/Volvas/Valkyre. This why Odin/Wotan had to sacrifice himself for the gift not usually of or from the masculine aspects of nature :) The thing with knowledge and wisdom, the more you have the more eccentric or crazy it can make you for it isolates you somewhat from those who do not know or who are not wise. Hence the archetype of Merlin running to the hills and being recluse in the forest as a hermit and the lot of Odin/Wotan. I guess a price of knowledge is also a deep sadness of a wanderer/riddler. Often comedy or humor is the mask of deep pain/loss. Closing off the Runr the direct consort/interpretation is also the Ogham from the stork scribe of language to the Gaelic people who descend from the North. The two alphabets mirror each other and are interchangeable and are traced also back to upper Egypt/original Iranians. My ancestry is of both Nordic and Gael and my family's never mixed out through the conquest so we still have both blood memory and coats of arms/records etc to trace back to the forests of Carpathia. The scariest thing for me is seeing how knowledge and history's have been and are being rewritten/destroyed. Without nature which is magic we are nothing and have no roots and are easier to control/enslave. Anyways nough of my ramble :) Raven
she is such a versatile artist. you as a tolkien and pratchett-fan should consider to listen to the album "at the heart of a selkie" where she introduces the listeners to the folk tale of selkie women. a beautiful and interesting journey. some of her songs just explain their meaning with this back story. you can find translations and the texts of the booklet as comments there. there are plenty other songs to reccomend and they are all good and very different: gloomy sunday with ginman after dark bridges live at studio bloch boxes live 2012 only love featuring ásgeir ( also a phenomenal artist from iceland) wake me up live at rtt í tokuni music video. and thanks for another nice reaction to eivør!
@@SaeedReacts. same here! reaction channels are a good way to discover so much good music! there are so many good artist, the list is nearly endless: eivør, susanne sundfør, agnes obel, anna von hausswolff, elsiane, brimheim, heiðrik, ásgeir, samaris, hjaltalín, fieh, björk, ....
@@SaeedReacts. and i have one absolut banger to reccomend, which is personally one of the best performances i have seen in five years, it's a song called du måste finnas, with english subtitles. very important to have the subtitles! it is taken from a musical called kristina från duvemåla, written by benni and björn from abba. her singing is super intense! you can also see them sitting mesmerized in the audience.
@@SaeedReacts. here is some information for you about the selkie-album: The seal woman by marjun syderbø kjelnæs the legends of the selkies legends of seals that emerge from the sea, shed their skin and become humans are found in many variations in many countries and groups of islands, including scotland, ireland, shetland, the orkneys, the faeroe islands and iceland. these legends can be considered ancient tales of the meeting between man and nature, intellect and instinct, the tamed and the wild. The stories themselves have developed over centuries and have been kept alive as oral traditions. They were not written down until the late 19th century. Our tribute tot he selkies has emerged from these legends. This work - with it’s poetry and music - finally gives the woman from the sea a voice of her own. the unique kingo-song, which is deeply rootes in faroese church culture, i spart oft he soundscape that takes us back to an island community oft he past. This also makes this work a powerful meeting between christianity and pantheism. the faroese legend oft he seal woman - retold It is said that twelve nights after chrictmas, on the night of epiphany, the darkest time oft he year, the seals climbs the cliffs to dance. In the moonlight they shed their skin and, on this one night oft he year, they become humans. On the black stone plateau, between sea and land, they celebrate memories of a time when man still lived in harmony with nature. They dance through the night, until the sun rises again. One night, everything changes for one of the seal women. . a young man - from the village of mikladalur - climbs the rocks in the darkness to watch the wild creatures. He barshly sneaks closer and closer and is irrevocably enchanted by one oft he dancing seal women. Unable to take his eyes off her, he decides to steal her skin. The dance ends as the sun rises like a flaming wheel on the horizon. But as the other seals wrap themselves in their shiny sealskin and move towards the salty sea, the seal woman is still looking for hers. Suddenly they stand face to face - a woman and a man from separate worlds. The waves break on the rocks and the seabirds cry. The man nervously backs away from her, clinging tot he skin. The selkie can see his beauty, but also his fear. She instantly decides to follow him, curiously watching him clutching her skin. She is drawn by his fear and his desire. He wants something from her, and even though she can hear the ocean calling her back, her attraction tot he man is stronger. They arrive at the village, and she follows him into his house and gives herself to him. They become lovers. Time makes demands on the seal woman. She marries the man and they have children. For a while they are happy, and everything is new. But the man is never able to conquer his fear of losing her, and so he locks her skin in a chest. And every day he carries the key on a chain around his neck. Days follow days, and years follow years. The seal woman often finds herself standing on the very edge oft he cliff, looking at the sea that still flows in her mind. As the years pass, her yearning beomes a powerful force within her. The price of being tamed is steep, and she knows that one day she must leave dry land and her children, sacrificing everything to throw herself into the depths oft he sea again. This is a great sorrow, but a deep certainty - an instinctive choice to survive. The sea is her true home. So, early one morning, the selkie does what she must do, she steals the key from her husband before he goes out fishing, and leaves her children. But before she goes, she puts out the fire and hides all sharp objects that might hurt them. One after one, she kisses them goodbye and commits her faces to her memory. She then opens the chest, takes the skin and walks out oft he house. „my beloved, my beloved“, her thoughts repeat as she runs for the beach. This last battle within her is between the sorrow and the joy of her decision to leave. She mourns all the love that she hast o leave behind, but is exhilarated by the freedam what awaits. And then she disappears, diving into the cold abyss never to return . the man does not realise that he has lost the key tot he chest until it’s too late, and he is inconsolable when he understands that the seal woman has abandoned him. The children sometimes hear their mother’s voice in the surf, and they know that she will watch over them forever.
@@Dave-hb7lx thank you, i have found it and the link to the concert! who else but @ragnaur could have uploaded the video? have you checked his awesome collection of eivor-songs? he is like a encyclopedia!
NRK 1 is the Norwegian television channel. And from the landscape it seems like she is in North Norway. But I also know that NRK 1 has visited Færøyene, on her concerts. 🤔🇳🇴
Based on the Danish "tryllebundet", I guess trodlabundin means spellbound. But as for the rest ..? I will also recommend "Falling Free", one of the best live performances I've seen in 70 years (so far), albeit on a 10cm screen (dead laptop).
This was my first song of her, when I fall in her rabbithole 🥰 Albeit in another video (which I like better than this one); but this song on her drum, the shamanistic way that I also have, touched me immediately.
Eivør is amazingly talented. I love how she can sing in a sweet angelic voice and also sing with the power of a warrior. I'm so happy she will be performing here in Australia in November with another band I love - Heilung. I have my ticket already. I've watched a lot of reactors and I think you are very good at what you are doing and your insights are very perceptive and empathic.
She is so good! I will check out more of her music. So cool you will get to see her. I already wish you a great time! Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate that.
Wardruna?
Whimsical. Ancient. Roots. Sounds almost tribal. To be there…the vibe must have been unbelievable. Can you imagine if you were camping close by and this unknowingly came through the woods to you!!! 😮 Ha! Just wrote that and you then talked walking through the woods.
🤯🤯🤯
Wow, you tend to react to my favorite artists. Thanks ❣ In fact, this video brought me to reaction channels - and now I'm hooked - spellbound 😅
Totally not by design (or is it 😅) Thanks for watching and have a great day.
Lovely reaction. She is so talented.
Magic! Thank you!
The way she sing without word out over the mountains It has a name sorry i have forgotten what its called
but in the very old time they used that technic to call in the sheeps in the evening.
I learned that it is called vocalizing. Beautiful.
Downloading some of her music on Itunes.
Its great. Have one more reaction coming to Free Falling.
Eivor worked on the soundtrack for The Last Kingdom series - especially the first volume is absolutely worth listening to. There's something so haunting about her voice.
Great series! Havent seen them all yet. Will listen to more of her music.
"Bound by trolls" loosely translates as bewitched, in a good sense usually - I was bewitched by my girlfriends beauty. It's a love song.
It is the near-religious experience one can get from beautiful nature or the unconditional love received from your beloved.
You have a good "ø"-sound - it's simply the "i"-vowel from girl (gørl).
As a Norwegian, Pharoese is mutually somewhat intelligible (we say trollbundet). Think Scots-American English.
Thanks so much for sharing this and the pronounciation. We have a similar thing going on in Belgium with Flemish/Dutch.
Singing without words -also done by Aurora and Ren (and probaly many others...) is called vocalising.
This was filmed in Westnorway; Eivor is on the soundtrack to several movies/shows, and your pronounciasion was spot on.👍
Greetigs from Denmark. 🇩🇰
Thanks for sharing this! I was truly transported to a magical realm. Beautiful. Greetings from Belgium.
@@SaeedReacts.what you can hear with the yodel-like sound here is a vocal technique called kulning, an ancient herding call that travels over long distances and a throat singing technique, where she also sings while inhaling.
Oh, please also chek out "Anouana" the mv. by Heillung; a german/norweigen/danish - kind of "akaeological music" band ( that sounded weired...😅) playing their interpetation of pre-norse music (bronzeage)
Will add your recommendation to my list. Thank you!
If you want to see another Eivør performance , in a modern setting (no rural dress 🙂) but as enchanting as this one, look for "Eivør - Falling Free (Live at the Old Theater in Torshavn)"
Working on that one as we speak!
Last year, I saw her live at Wacken Open Air and it was AMAZING!
Awesome! I only discovered the existence of Wacken festival , because of my Nightwish reactions. I am learning a lot!
If you look into the folklore Odin or Wotan is the wizard in the culture that is from or imbedded in this very Fjord and he is a masculine nature spirit of the Nordic or Anglo ethnos... He tells riddles and is a solitary wonderer...
Super interesting! Definitely need to do some more reading on this.
@@SaeedReacts. The etymology of the day Wednesday is after his namesake Wotan in the Britanies (UK) the Britanie version of original Odin. His consort Frigg and Freja are one the same and the etymon of the Friday is her namesake. We named the days of the week in honor to the nature spirits we came from. The Nordic/Germanic languages are the root of English and all European languages. And the letters originate from the Runr which as legend goes Odin sacrificed himself and his right eye for to the 3 nornes. In return they gave him the alphabet of which what English now originates from from the Nordic languages.
The Runr are also ancestral cartouches, they are both sigils and the origin of all European languages. There is a bit of corruption due the conquest of the Abrahamics (Not actually native to anyone) and def not native to the North or Isles but those of the ethnos if they stay connected to nature and roots can often feel their way through the corruptions or misdirection's.
It was only in recent times that the Runr was aloud to be used again. Across the Britain's it was a death sentence to be writing or using the old language in the same way you were imprisoned or deported if you were Irish Or Scotts and refused to speak English. Many Gael folks were sent of the prison island Im now in 'Australia' for still speaking Irish or Scotts.
The way she sings is also of Galdra/Norne wise workers usually women and magic workers which is feminine. Also referred to as Wics/Volvas/Valkyre.
This why Odin/Wotan had to sacrifice himself for the gift not usually of or from the masculine aspects of nature :)
The thing with knowledge and wisdom, the more you have the more eccentric or crazy it can make you for it isolates you somewhat from those who do not know or who are not wise. Hence the archetype of Merlin running to the hills and being recluse in the forest as a hermit and the lot of Odin/Wotan. I guess a price of knowledge is also a deep sadness of a wanderer/riddler. Often comedy or humor is the mask of deep pain/loss.
Closing off the Runr the direct consort/interpretation is also the Ogham from the stork scribe of language to the Gaelic people who descend from the North. The two alphabets mirror each other and are interchangeable and are traced also back to upper Egypt/original Iranians.
My ancestry is of both Nordic and Gael and my family's never mixed out through the conquest so we still have both blood memory and coats of arms/records etc to trace back to the forests of Carpathia. The scariest thing for me is seeing how knowledge and history's have been and are being rewritten/destroyed. Without nature which is magic we are nothing and have no roots and are easier to control/enslave. Anyways nough of my ramble :) Raven
the line isn't really wizard, it's more like a magical demon, not like a human but a being of fire enchanting her
Thanks for letting me know! Must have a different translation.
she is such a versatile artist. you as a tolkien and pratchett-fan should consider to listen to the album "at the heart of a selkie" where she introduces the listeners to the folk tale of selkie women. a beautiful and interesting journey. some of her songs just explain their meaning with this back story. you can find translations and the texts of the booklet as comments there.
there are plenty other songs to reccomend and they are all good and very different:
gloomy sunday with ginman after dark
bridges live at studio bloch
boxes live 2012
only love featuring ásgeir ( also a phenomenal artist from iceland)
wake me up live at rtt
í tokuni music video.
and thanks for another nice reaction to eivør!
Thank you for sharing these. Definitely up for exploring new music. Its really adding a lot to my life and i am gaining new insights everday
@@SaeedReacts. same here! reaction channels are a good way to discover so much good music! there are so many good artist, the list is nearly endless: eivør, susanne sundfør, agnes obel, anna von hausswolff, elsiane, brimheim, heiðrik, ásgeir, samaris, hjaltalín, fieh, björk, ....
@@SaeedReacts. and i have one absolut banger to reccomend, which is personally one of the best performances i have seen in five years, it's a song called du måste finnas, with english subtitles. very important to have the subtitles! it is taken from a musical called kristina från duvemåla, written by benni and björn from abba. her singing is super intense! you can also see them sitting mesmerized in the audience.
@@SaeedReacts. here is some information for you about the selkie-album:
The seal woman
by marjun syderbø kjelnæs
the legends of the selkies
legends of seals that emerge from the sea, shed their skin and become humans are found in many variations in many countries and groups of islands, including scotland, ireland, shetland, the orkneys, the faeroe islands and iceland.
these legends can be considered ancient tales of the meeting between man and nature, intellect and instinct, the tamed and the wild. The stories themselves have developed over centuries and have been kept alive as oral traditions. They were not written down until the late 19th century. Our tribute tot he selkies has emerged from these legends. This work - with it’s poetry and music - finally gives the woman from the sea a voice of her own.
the unique kingo-song, which is deeply rootes in faroese church culture, i spart oft he soundscape that takes us back to an island community oft he past. This also makes this work a powerful meeting between christianity and pantheism.
the faroese legend oft he seal woman - retold
It is said that twelve nights after chrictmas, on the night of epiphany, the darkest time oft he year, the seals climbs the cliffs to dance. In the moonlight they shed their skin and, on this one night oft he year, they become humans. On the black stone plateau, between sea and land, they celebrate memories of a time when man still lived in harmony with nature. They dance through the night, until the sun rises again.
One night, everything changes for one of the seal women. . a young man - from the village of mikladalur - climbs the rocks in the darkness to watch the wild creatures. He barshly sneaks closer and closer and is irrevocably enchanted by one oft he dancing seal women. Unable to take his eyes off her, he decides to steal her skin.
The dance ends as the sun rises like a flaming wheel on the horizon. But as the other seals wrap themselves in their shiny sealskin and move towards the salty sea, the seal woman is still looking for hers. Suddenly they stand face to face - a woman and a man from separate worlds.
The waves break on the rocks and the seabirds cry. The man nervously backs away from her, clinging tot he skin. The selkie can see his beauty, but also his fear. She instantly decides to follow him, curiously watching him clutching her skin. She is drawn by his fear and his desire. He wants something from her, and even though she can hear the ocean calling her back, her attraction tot he man is stronger. They arrive at the village, and she follows him into his house and gives herself to him. They become lovers.
Time makes demands on the seal woman. She marries the man and they have children. For a while they are happy, and everything is new. But the man is never able to conquer his fear of losing her, and so he locks her skin in a chest. And every day he carries the key on a chain around his neck.
Days follow days, and years follow years. The seal woman often finds herself standing on the very edge oft he cliff, looking at the sea that still flows in her mind. As the years pass, her yearning beomes a powerful force within her. The price of being tamed is steep, and she knows that one day she must leave dry land and her children, sacrificing everything to throw herself into the depths oft he sea again. This is a great sorrow, but a deep certainty - an instinctive choice to survive. The sea is her true home.
So, early one morning, the selkie does what she must do, she steals the key from her husband before he goes out fishing, and leaves her children. But before she goes, she puts out the fire and hides all sharp objects that might hurt them. One after one, she kisses them goodbye and commits her faces to her memory. She then opens the chest, takes the skin and walks out oft he house.
„my beloved, my beloved“, her thoughts repeat as she runs for the beach. This last battle within her is between the sorrow and the joy of her decision to leave. She mourns all the love that she hast o leave behind, but is exhilarated by the freedam what awaits. And then she disappears, diving into the cold abyss never to return . the man does not realise that he has lost the key tot he chest until it’s too late, and he is inconsolable when he understands that the seal woman has abandoned him. The children sometimes hear their mother’s voice in the surf, and they know that she will watch over them forever.
@@Dave-hb7lx thank you, i have found it and the link to the concert! who else but @ragnaur could have uploaded the video? have you checked his awesome collection of eivor-songs? he is like a encyclopedia!
NRK 1 is the Norwegian television channel. And from the landscape it seems like she is in North Norway. But I also know that NRK 1 has visited Færøyene, on her concerts. 🤔🇳🇴
Beautiful landscape and music = magic.
and still - they wrote the song title wrong😊
@@soleywolfgangsdottir Norway
Not northern Norway, but the west coast.
Based on the Danish "tryllebundet", I guess trodlabundin means spellbound. But as for the rest ..?
I will also recommend "Falling Free", one of the best live performances I've seen in 70 years (so far), albeit on a 10cm screen (dead laptop).
I just recorded a reaction to Falling Free and i understand what you mean!
I'd recommend Eivor - Surrender (London Solo Sessions) just her and an acoustic guitar. It is fantastic.
Thanks for the recommendation. Will add it to my list. Have a great day.
eivor. love her works. sum not. i do. our geographic plays its history. so it is. we all know that. thanks for its mention. even in america.
This was my first song of her, when I fall in her rabbithole 🥰
Albeit in another video (which I like better than this one); but this song on her drum, the shamanistic way that I also have, touched me immediately.
So good! Transported me to another world.
Understand your translation difficulties. Dutch has always reminded me of a pastiche of English and German with its own flavor.
Many similarities with those languages. Its also comes from the Germanic family
this in western norway 🇳🇴