UPDATE: This track is now on spotify and all other streaming platforms! open.spotify.com/album/2nfJb4g8R82ZVid4u5apzK?si=FkrMj8G6RVCp3Tn7QwR0EQ&dl_branch=1 Thanks again for watching, Colmpany! 1) Leave your suggestions below 2) Yes this WILL be coming up on spotify. Will tweet out when it's up! 3) I have all my previous covers coming out in an album tomorrow! 4) Stay VERY handsome!
I can't wait until you post this as a loop able song you devilishly handsome bastard I love your videos btw I called you a bastard because I couldn't think of any other word or name I meant it as compliment just to clarify things for anybody
As a Norwegian, I am so happy you sang this in Old Norse and I wanna say your accent is incredibly good. On that note, make no mistake; modern Scandinavian languages are veeeeery different from the ancient tongues (closest would be Icelandic) and no one really speaks it anymore, but as our culture and heritage we hold very dear and I am very appreciative that it is being picked up and presented today, as I'm sure many others here are.
If I ever have the time, one of my dreams is to learn fluent old Norse. I have Danish blood in me and want to learn more about it, yet things like Ancestry and 23&me are incredibly inaccurate.
@@Xcm-yg1vv Zelfs als Nederlander geeft het oude Noors een uniek gevoel van kracht. De oude Germaanse talen hebben gewoon een kranige charme als geen andere taal, vooral de Scandinavische.
LYRICS: Þat mælti mín móðir, at mér skyldi kaupa fley ok fagrar árar, fara á brott með víkingum, standa upp í stafni, stýra dýrum knerri, halda svá til hafnar hǫggva mann ok annan, hǫggva mann ok annan.
Þél höggr stórt fyr stáli stafnkvígs á veg jafnan út með éla meitli andærr jötunn vandar, en svalbúinn selju sverfr eirar vanr þeiri Gestils ölpt með gustum gandr of stál fyr brandi
Phases of watching this video: 1. Wow this dude's voice is way deeper than I thought it would be. 2. Wow this sounds way more badass in old norse. 3. Wow his speaking voice is way different than his singing voice. 4. I need more of this in my life. 5. (Clicks subscribe)
I've been so conditioned by Colm's videos, every time I see the white jumper I expect a sea shanty. LOL! Even worse, I'm now calling them jumpers and I'm from America. LOL! I love this song. Colm, you advertise merch like a PRO! You're giving Phil DeFranco a run for his money in that department. =)
Imagine Saxons hearing this through the fog as it slowly grows louder. Sorry I don’t mean anything bad by this or meant to imply saxons are weak in some way. I basically just meant imagine some random farmer from the area/time period hearing it
The Lyrics in case anyone was wondering: Þat mælti mín móðir, at mér skyldi kaupa fley ok fagrar árar, fara á brott með víkingum, standa upp í stafni, stýra dýrum knerri, halda svá til hafnar hǫggva mann ok annan, hǫggva mann ok annan.
@@theesper7404 Learning ð and þ is pretty easy tho since English already has those sounds. ð is the sound heard in "that", "feather", and "clothe", while þ is the sound heard in "thistle", "thunder", and "width".
@@TheScarletKing1476 Hinderfjall was the group on Grimfrost Records that did this cover in Old Norse. They even got Peter Franzen (King Harald Fairhair from History's "Vikings" tv show) to provide guest vocals like he did on the show. It's amazing! ua-cam.com/video/8aveUs1o6e4/v-deo.html
@@TheScarletKing1476 Yeah, I think it's the best version out there to date. Do you listen to Hinderfjall's other songs? They are all great. Also, I hope you know of Wardruna, Heilung, Danheim, Runfell, and many other groups who are also doing these styles of traditional Norse/Germanic Heathen songs.
@@sigururkvaran1983 and yet, old norse is a dead language. There is no-one today that's a native speaker of old norse, therefore it's a dead language. Just like latin.
@@sigururkvaran1983 it evolved into Icelandic/Germanic, just as Latin evolved into Spanish/French/English. It's a Root language; and, just like Ancient Greek, and Ancient Egyptian, it no longer has any native speakers. You can certainly learn these languages, but there are no communities that actively speak these languages natively.
This was a poem written in Egils Saga from Íslendingasögur or Sagas of Icelanders. Egils Saga tails the life of members in Egil Skallagrímsson clan. From Egils grandfather to his children. He was a war age poet and a farmer with suposed mystical powers. The Íslendingasögur is also known as the Family Sagas. Mostly historical events retold by different families around the Saga Age in early Iceland, the ninth to early eleventh century. According to his Saga, the poem was suposedly written after his first murder at a very young age. The shows and games that use it now greatly alter the original poem in the Saga. I have the saga with me as I directly quote what is the most commonly accepted translation of the poem: My mother wants a price paid To purchase my proud-oared ship; Standing high in the stern I'll soar for plunder, The stout viking stearsman Of this shining vessel: Then home to harbour After hewing down a man or two Translation slightly alters it, but not in any meaningful way. Egils Saga is very interesting as a whole. One of my favorite Sagas personally. The story goes that when he was six he and the boy Grim who was 11, were playing ball. Grim is winning, Egil is mad and hits him. Grim then wrestles him to the ground. Egil is not happy with this so he goes home, seeks his friend and the two get axes. Egil cuts Grims head through the brain down to the teeth. This causes the adults of the two houses to fight and seven more men to die. His father is disappointed for causing so much suffering and death for nothing. His mom is proud however and tells him she thinks its a sign he will be a great viking and people should get him fighting ships. He writes the poem after his mother tells him this. And as a side note, here are two other translations that are not as accepted today. The contemporary English translation is roughly: "Mother told me they ought to buy me a ship and good oars. I ought to go with Vikings, stand up in the ship, steer the good ship, sail into harbor, kill one man after another." The most literal translation is(yes, spelling and all): "Thus spake my mother, That for me should they buy a barque and beauteous oars to go forth with Vikings. Stand in the stern, Steer a dear vessel, Hold course for a haven, Hew down many foemen."
I find it melancholic, i am Scandinavien and i don't understand a single word, old norse was so enchanting that i wish it survived more to this day so it would be convenient to learn
@@leahg3926 So my degree was English language though it had a lot of linguistics in it, including modules on Old English (which is like a completely different language and I found so fun to study) and our lecturer ran a short summer course on old Norse just for fun, so it didn't necessarily go towards anything for me but was so interesting to study. If you specialise in historical linguistics there's work you can go into in archiving, museum studies and translation kind of things (though I went and did a master's in forensic linguistics instead, which I'm just finishing). Hope that helps haha, linguistics is always such an under-talked about subject even when it cover so much, every aspect is just fascinating! ❤️
@@leahg3926 I have a B.A in Linguistics (theoretical, with a focus on generative linguistics), and I'm studying for an M.Sc in Computer Science (focus on natural language processing) and the one thing I tell people who are linguistically-curious is that there is so much more to linguistics than just etymology and phonology - which is really exciting! It's probably the only discipline in which you can combine an understanding in philosophy and formal logic, sociology and anthropology, psychology and neuroscience, mathematics and statistics, history, and computer science. It's great stuff. And as for what you can do with it - well, personally I aim to go into academic computational linguistics, but work in any of the above fields is available, if you find a good program.
Same im more a linguistic hobbiest some day by God's wills I hope to speak English Chinese (cantonese,mandarin and lung du) Japanese, old English and Somali
If your voice was any more deeper, it would strike oil. If your voice was any more eloquent, it would shower diamonds and battle axes. Keep up the amazing work!!!
your ancestors were butchered at Stamford bridge and Ashdown. Now their legacy lies in American pop culture television and dirt, while the people they failed to conquer colonised the planet and created the worlds largest empire.
@@Nessy385 ”they believed wrong”…….. you are only proving even more that religion is the main problem of our society….. I’m going to make you tell me that I’m going to hell with 2 simple facts about me. First of, I do not believe in any god. There is no divine. What happens in our lives aren’t pre determined but are direct effects of our former actions. The only thing that affects us are our personality are our imediate surroundings and our parents. Now onwards to the second thing. IM GAY AS HELL. SO YEA I MIGHT GO TO HEL BUT ILL HAVE ALL MY FELLOW GAY MEN WITH ME DOWN THERE!
Old Norse is so incredibly interesting on a purely phonetic level, doubly so as someone born in Scandinavia and being able to pick up up words with my modern understanding. Honestly you have a singularly spectacular voice. Your vocal range is breathtaking, from the thundering lows you seem to strike with such ease, to the magnificent highs. Rock on Colm, bloody Rock on, mate!
From what I understand of the subject, which is to say a very limited understanding, yes Icelandic is the closest approximation of modern use Old Norse has.
Bro be hitting those low notes perfectly. If you ever find yourself back in time in a Norse settlement, please start a band and travel the lands singing.
Now I know why the British feared the norse. Imagine hearing this deep ass voice singing in a tongue you don't understand In a foggy ass mist approaching.
@@mikaylababjac9585 Actually only 13 women ever to take part in raiding if anything, raiding and trading where done by men but women did participate in exploration.
Hearing this in the original language... This is how it would have sounded when my ancestors sang it... It has a haunting quality, the weight of ages and a fierce sense of warrior pride.
I can’t stop listening to this. I thought I was over my “My Mother Told Me phase” … apparently not. This is hauntingly beautiful. Long live Vikings. ❤️
This is by far the easiest to understand rendition of this song vocally speaking, real clear on the pronunciation and every word and letter sounding like it should. Another brilliant performance. I'm certain that you put a lot of work into it, and it shows. Well done.
As a Slav I really like to listen to this for hours, our old pagans ancestors fought each other, but we were all great warriors, great respect for the Vikings. Be proud of your heritage.
@@JackieTheDeviL1869 no problem, also did not mean to bash Colms version, it's amazing and sounds great, just wanted to bring grimfrosts version to the foreground too
When I closed my eyes, it felt like I traveled in time and get to the vikings. They're sitting near the fire, sining songs, dancing, telling stories. Then they do their usual work and get redy for winter. And go through the see to fight with enemies and rushed gold and steel before winter comes. Your voice, music and the manner of playing made me feel like that. Thank you so much for those emotions. You are incredible musician.
As someone who is fascinated by the old Nordic this is absolutely amazing and it really is hauntingly beautiful just imagine an entire hall of vikings chanting this in unison
@@enoughofyourkoicarp funniest thing about that is... THIS IS BASICALLY A LULLABY. it's originally a poem written by a berserker about how his mother was proud of him after he murdered another boy of 11 years old at age 6 and knew he was gonna be a great warrior when he grew up. she wasn't wrong either, he's one of only a select handful of berserkers listed by name in the sagas, most of the others are his relatives, and one of the only ones we have an extensive account of. some of egil's other highlights: won a duel by chewing through a man's neck with his teeth. became a hated enemy of Eric Bloodaxe after killing one of his retainers and later his son, is outlawed and flees to iceland, earns a pardon for the murders with a poem. can't remember if it was him or his father, but one of them was invited to dine with a jarl/king, and made ugly faces at him until the king literally bribed him to stop.
Thats because this, and other songs from him, focus on vocals and use instruments as background. Radiostations play the Wellerman around here, from Nathan evans. That version pales in comparison to his original one due to modern soundeffects... Similar things also happen when you compare this to Metal versions where you just think something is missing in them, like, the metal part.
@@stevenseagal5950 Wow. You really are under every single comment mentioning his deep voice. Think you might need a therapist or two for that obsession. Something tells me I'll find you commenting this on his other videos too, lol. And you have the audacity to tell others to get bent, projection is a helluva thing.
@@Nyx_2142 yeah I'm correcting stupidity and obvious pitch shifting, and it's hard to believe people fall for it. And this is the only video I've commented on. Funny that you're scouring around looking to fight with me. Yep, i absolutely do have the audacity to do that, especially when they're objectively wrong, and would rather be stuck up cunts than admit they're wrong. Funny thing isn't it? And how is this projection? Lol you just love throwing random terms out their like "source?" And "projection". You don't even know what you're saying, just parroting other comments you've seen.
While modern Scandinavian languages are very different, Icelandic is still very similar to Old Norse in many ways, so it's fun to see how much I can understand without translation (I speak Icelandic) I always said ancient languages sound so badass and this song confirms, this song was amazing
@@mustaav96hat applies also to german and Dutch Woensdag:woden (odin) day Donderdag:Thunor (thor) day Vrijdag: Freyja day Forseti-Voorzitter,meaning: president in dutch
In Icelandic today it would be like: Það mælti mín móðir, að mér skyldi kaupa fley og fagrar árar, fara á brott með víkingum, standa upp í stafni, stýra dýrum knerri, halda svo til hafnar höggva mann og annan, höggva mann og annan.
I stepped into the music world with my own efforts and improved myself with intense efforts. It all started with playing guitar in a school band 6 years ago. I am currently studying cello, piano and singing at the same time. You are obviously one of the people I look up to. I hope one day I can create amazing works like yours
Simply fantastic. Since I don't know Old Norse, I'll just say that I think you did well on the pronunciation and thank you for bringing out the Tagel once more!
Makes me want to run a Viking themed horror D&D survival campaign. Have the PCs come rolling up to a fog shrouded shore looking for some good old fashioned raiding only to find all the inhabitants already slain. Upon returning to their boat it has been scuttled. The dead begins to rise. Demons run free. Have to survive and figure out what happen.
that would be fucking awesome, and this song would fit so well in that I can see it now a ship full of warriors show up ready to grab some good shit and some slaves and they come in and it's just quiet as they look around slowly with shield and axe in hand and slowly walk about and some peek into the Homes only to find skeletons sitting at the tables as if they had only just died but had decomposed rather fast and this sends a chill down their spins so they look to their war party leader for an answer but even he's scared and so they beat it back to the ship only to find it gone not just scuttled but just gone as if it never was there and that's when the dead rise and the warriors all stand together in a circle weapons ready but then suddenly the skeletal dead all attack and cut to pieces frozen in fear warriors and only the war party leader and maybe his son are the only survivors and they just drop their shit and run into the forest and then that's where it kicks off as a survival story of this father son duo trying to escape the skeletal dead who are now searching for them and they are now trying to make better weapons to deal with the dead.
This has been the best version I've heard so far, didn't like it in English. Are the irish songs coming up? Fingers still crossed for "the green fields of france", and "One I love".
Have you heard this one yet: Hinderfjall was the group on Grimfrost Records that did this cover in Old Norse. They even got Peter Franzen (King Harald Fairhair from History's "Vikings" tv show) to provide guest vocals like he did on the show. It's amazing! ua-cam.com/video/8aveUs1o6e4/v-deo.html
In the name of Odin, what did you just wake up from its sleep? 😱😲😄 I Think I can speak for all scandinavians when I say THANK YOU /TACK for this version 🙏 And If this doesn't end up in a scandinavian movie I don't know what will 🍻Skål
This is amazing. To the one's thinking it's auto-tuned, check out "The Hu Band". I think they are from Mongolia and their singing style is called "Throat singing". It's an ancient singing style that is making a comeback.
There are many styles of khoomei - throat singing. He may be using the kargyraa style, which relies on vocal fry, to get the bottom notes. It's similar in technique to the "death metal growl".
I love The Hu. Saw them I'm concert recently (they were one of the openers for FFDP) Anyhoo, I'm glad throat vocals are making a comeback. I love that sound.
@@walnzell9328 Believe it or not, the Klingon language's basic sound, along with a few words, was devised by actor James Doohan ("Scotty") and producer Jon Povill for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". Other details can be found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language
I'd just like to say that your music has helped me greatly while I'm at college. Me being a procrastinator, I stress over three days straight getting work done in succession. I usually have your music on loop while I work, which helps pass the time as I either write papers, do 3D modeling, or visual effects. Keep up the great work!
with headphones on, i feel like i can see back in time to my ancestors pulling an oar on a wolfship, cutting through ice filled waters with battle brothers chanting this absolutely wonderful performance
Immediate chills very hauntingly sounding. Love the old norse it makes this song sound menacing and pair it with colms voice perfect match. Thanks for this great song.
"Bring me a man with a voice like thunder. That same one must have mastered every musical instrument under the sun." The king grinned with dark satisfaction, for he knew there existed no man on Earth who could fulfill his request. The condemned knight smiled in return. "Behold, Your Majesty, Colm McGuinness." Listening to the bard perform, the king realized that he had made a grave error. "It seems I have won our bet. You are bound by the magical vow. I am free...and your kingdom is mine."
Holy shit... listened twice back to back. Turned it up louder the second time... my roommates think I'm nuts as I sit here jamming out to a song in old Norse sung by a fellow ginger. I absolutely love your stuff. I can't tell you what people like you have done for me when I'm in a dark place. Keep up the great work man! I wonder if you'd want to perform the United States Marines Corps hymn at some point. I'd love to see your take on it.
Just a little something I put together while I listened to the song: _Upon a small yet tall peninsula overlooking a sleepy little costal town; sat a modest monastery, simple in its construction, rich in its contents..._ The Fog was thick, the night was calm. Brother Ancaeus shuffled along the pews, lighting the evening candles. All was right, all was calm. "Another quiet evening brother," came the murmuring voice of brother Bard. Turning to him, Ancaeus blew out his matchstick as he completed his tasks for the night, taking a seat with his monastic brother in the front most pew. "Yes, brother. The seas are calm tonight and the town lays still in its slumber." he answered, "But if that is so, what troubles you presently?" As he waits, the wind along the coast picks up; a dull susurration in the night. The town is quiet, the night is no longer still. "Have you heard from the other monasteries and temples Ancaeus? They speak of a new evil come to our shores as of these past few winters." He turns to him, eyes gleaming in sharp concern. "No, I have been here brother; tending to my duties as always. If any here have heard news from beyond our walls it would be you. Is it not you who receives the shipments from the town?" A shuddering breath answers, "I do, brother, I do. But it is from the men who bring us supplies I have also heard of these rumors." Ancaeus takes a moment to tuck his hands into the sleeves of his simple homespun robes, the night air is cool tonight, and candles are poor substitutes for the warm roaring fire in the dorms. The wind sings freely now, the fog is thicker still. "Tell me about these rumors, brother Bard." There is a pause, a faint murmur on the wind. "These are not the normal bandits and brigands of old Ancaeus. This is something new, they are far fiercer than a bandit, more hardy than our knights. The things I have heard..." He trails off as he rubs his left arm absentmindedly, a grimace ghosting across his face. Noticing this Ancaeus murmurs, "Are your old wounds troubling you brother? Do you want me to go get sister Hypatia?" Bard looks on, his eyes unfocused, his mind in another time, another place. "No, no. Pray do not trouble her, she would flay us both for rousing her before morning prayers." A small chuckle comes from Ancaeus, "That is true, brother, without a doubt." The two men share a companionable silence, a calm moment before the storm. _The wind Roars._ Cocking his head to a side, and pulling the side of his hood back a fraction, brother Bard listens to the silence. An unease begins to creep into the hall, and a stronger breeze still, whistles through the cracks in the old monastery doors. "What is it, brother?" Ancaeus whispers, "I know not Ancaeus, there is a breath upon the wind that was not blown by God." _The wind is howling, the fog deepens and creeps upon the shore._ Bard turns to Ancaeus, eyes hard with an old alertness, "I do not like it brother, there is something foul in the air, by the saints and by my years as a soldier I swear it." The younger monk looks back to the double doors leading to the outside world, they face out to sea, constantly battered by the salt air. _The whisper is a murmur, a faint chant on the paths in the sky._ "I think I hear it Bard, it sounds like...chanting? Like morning prayer?" Bards eyes widen, then shrink back into hard pinpricks of obsidian. "That may be a prayer, but not to our God." _The howling wind has a brother, its song joins it to its own._ Both men leap to their feet, Bard claps his hands on his younger companion. "Ancaeus, heed my words; rouse everyone, take the sisters and our brothers whom abstain from the sword and fly, fly to the woods. Send brother Solomon to the town to raise the alarm. Tell brothers Alexander, Horace, and William to meet me here, understand?" "Yes Bard." "Good lad, May the Lord lend wings to your feet. Now go!" _The Wind Sings its lamentations, upon it burbles and groans the chants of many throats in concert, all drift in from the fog out at sea._ Glancing back at the monastery, brother Ancaeus sees a figure at the door, one hand raised in a solemn farewell. Turning back to the forest he waves to another group slipping out from the now bright fishing village; women and children herded by old men with fishing spears. They all slink into the woods, dousing their lanterns and torches as they go. _Within the Temple, an old Warrior prepares for war once more._ "Brothers, the barbarians come. The other men are preparing in the village, we shall stay and defend the monastery. They have sent a rider to Lord FitzHarold for aid. I pray to the Lord that they arrive in time." As he speaks the four men descend the stairs down into an old storeroom. Therin lies four chests, all stamped on the latch with a simple symbol; a sword and rose crossed behind the head of a raven. Each man opens their chest to reveal neatly folded chainmail, battered and notched plates with specks of rust, and on top in each lay a simple shortsword in a plain battered leather scabbard wrapped in a swordbelt. A moment is taken by each man, before as one they arm and armor themselves, old hands quick in the familiar task. _Upon the sea-within the fog, a song rises up carried by men grim in their task._ The Fog is thinning, the night is tense. A dozen throats chant in concert. A dozen hearts beat in fevered anticipation. A dozen eyes scan the shore, looking for an opening. Then, the Skirl led his crew in another chant, to ready them for battle. Its chant carried on the wind, settling onto the village like a thick blanket. "Þat mælti mín móðir, at mér skyldi kaupa fley ok fagrar árar, fara á brott með víkingum, standa upp í stafni, stýra dýrum knerri, halda svá til hafnar hǫggva mann ok annan, hǫggva mann ok annan." "Þél höggr stórt fyr stáli stafnkvígs á veg jafnan út með éla meitli andærr jötunn vandar, en svalbúinn selju sverfr eirar vanr þeiri Gestils ölpt með gustum gandr of stál fyr brandi."
wow this probably happened many a time during the raids when wild men came from the whale road however I must confess my wondering if the Arms and Amour could have come from the time the banners of S.P.Q.R flew over the southern reaches of said peninsula ?
@@theirishrave6448 only he who goes by an untold number names knows for certain north of the alps he was once known as Odin, to the south his name was once long ago Iupiter Capitonlinus or to south- eastern folk he went by the name of Zeus.
😮My friend I don't know what it is about your voice but every time you sing it just sounds so damn empowering I just want to workout for 24 hours straight this is my first time listening and I cannot tell you how much I am enjoying this please more songs like this... I'm jealous why can't I have a voice like this
Y’all know he killed another child, so his mom took this as a sign that he should have a ship so he could kill more people, steal things, and gain gold and glory, right? Mighty deeds and killing strong enemies was essential to their heroic ideal. Rendition is breathless!
"What have you done today, Egill?" "I crushed a kid's skull with an axe, mommy!" "Oh, that's not very nice, but we're vikings so... whatever. Let's buy a boat." Seems legit to me.
Why can I feel this? I have norse heritage but have never spoken the language. Yet somehow this feels like the songs of my people. It calls to something that I didn't know was missing.
Actually was able to catch it the premiere this time! This was amazing when you use the deeper gravelly voice it goes so well with the Old Norse! I feel like I’m in a movie about Vikings!
UPDATE: This track is now on spotify and all other streaming platforms!
open.spotify.com/album/2nfJb4g8R82ZVid4u5apzK?si=FkrMj8G6RVCp3Tn7QwR0EQ&dl_branch=1
Thanks again for watching, Colmpany!
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I can't wait until you post this as a loop able song you devilishly handsome bastard I love your videos btw I called you a bastard because I couldn't think of any other word or name I meant it as compliment just to clarify things for anybody
Oh my god! Amazing timing coming up just before all my exams are on Thank You So Much Mate!
Suggestion(s) The Lark in the Morning or Seven Drunken Night's.
I threw this suggestion out once before: Be Prepared. The bass clones can do no wrong.
@@LarboardAnimations9660 Minus the last two verses haha!
Saxon Monk: What is that strange singing coming from the Sea?
The Sea:
Byzantines: Puts out now hiring sign
The first instance of "Why do I hear boss music?"
Repent
Kyivans: we just were looking for a duke for upper management here. Those Khazars are pain in the ass. We'll take your whole team.
Actually... legendary creator of this poem was Egill Skalla-Grimson who serve under Anglo-Saxon king Athelstan
The English version is magnificent, but this Old Norse version is so hauntingly beautiful. Transported me a thousand years in the past.
The seas speak viking!!!!! I heard them
@@Space_Drifter0621 only the ones that run cold and dark, warmer waters speak Polynesian.
were you anglo saxon or norse?
Asking for a ghost
@@RainMan52 The first
@@Space_Drifter0621 then your ancestors didn't live long after hearing that
As a Norwegian, I am so happy you sang this in Old Norse and I wanna say your accent is incredibly good.
On that note, make no mistake; modern Scandinavian languages are veeeeery different from the ancient tongues (closest would be Icelandic) and no one really speaks it anymore, but as our culture and heritage we hold very dear and I am very appreciative that it is being picked up and presented today, as I'm sure many others here are.
If I ever have the time, one of my dreams is to learn fluent old Norse. I have Danish blood in me and want to learn more about it, yet things like Ancestry and 23&me are incredibly inaccurate.
as an norwegian... same.
I looked at these replies hoping to find an Icelandic person proudly concurring.
While what I sought was absent, I’m still happy to have clicked.
Ja den här versionen väcker nåt i en som skandinavier haha
@@Xcm-yg1vv
Zelfs als Nederlander geeft het oude Noors een uniek gevoel van kracht. De oude Germaanse talen hebben gewoon een kranige charme als geen andere taal, vooral de Scandinavische.
I honestly was NOT expecting his voice to be that deep
His voice fr getts deeper idk how
Wait it gets deaper!?
Idem 🤣
@@colinking4707 Yha, idk how
autotune
LYRICS:
Þat mælti mín móðir,
at mér skyldi kaupa
fley ok fagrar árar,
fara á brott með víkingum,
standa upp í stafni,
stýra dýrum knerri,
halda svá til hafnar
hǫggva mann ok annan,
hǫggva mann ok annan.
I understand this. Yes.
That's awesome! Thank you posting the lyrics! I've got folks in the SCA I'm definitely going to share this with.
Þél höggr stórt fyr stáli
stafnkvígs á veg jafnan
út með éla meitli
andærr jötunn vandar,
en svalbúinn selju
sverfr eirar vanr þeiri
Gestils ölpt með gustum
gandr of stál fyr brandi
hhaha, i turned on the Auto Closed caption, they were a little off. ;P
was:
[music]
[Applause]
...Oh
...Steer up
...or
...forgein
[applause]
Holy... there is no respectful way to say this in Italian, anything would be blasphemy. Your talent is... a treasure
Phases of watching this video:
1. Wow this dude's voice is way deeper than I thought it would be.
2. Wow this sounds way more badass in old norse.
3. Wow his speaking voice is way different than his singing voice.
4. I need more of this in my life.
5. (Clicks subscribe)
true...
😁
Yes... MORE!"
The meadhall rings with this the night before the slipping ors and sailing to glory or death. Brilliantly done.
He may be using the subvocal technique similar in mongolian music
@@dorego3658 throat singing ftw
These moments, when you think he did almost everything cool he could do, and then something like THIS just appears...
Yes I know what you mean. Soo good
I've been so conditioned by Colm's videos, every time I see the white jumper I expect a sea shanty. LOL! Even worse, I'm now calling them jumpers and I'm from America. LOL! I love this song. Colm, you advertise merch like a PRO! You're giving Phil DeFranco a run for his money in that department. =)
@@cassiebanks I'm sorry but you do a disservice by comparing this to that.
I know what you mean...
Isn’t this the case with many things?
💯
Imagine Saxons hearing this through the fog as it slowly grows louder.
Sorry I don’t mean anything bad by this or meant to imply saxons are weak in some way. I basically just meant imagine some random farmer from the area/time period hearing it
I think you mean Anglo-Saxons. Although, raid into Germany weren’t unheard of by any means.
@@kokofan50 yeah
😳
As a lady, my knees would immediately melt.
"Do you reckon they will spare us if we surrender? No? Yeah... I thought so too..."
The Lyrics in case anyone was wondering:
Þat mælti mín móðir,
at mér skyldi kaupa
fley ok fagrar árar,
fara á brott með víkingum,
standa upp í stafni,
stýra dýrum knerri,
halda svá til hafnar
hǫggva mann ok annan,
hǫggva mann ok annan.
I love You!
Wish I could roll my letters. I'd try to learn the language if I could lol
@@theesper7404 Learning ð and þ is pretty easy tho since English already has those sounds. ð is the sound heard in "that", "feather", and "clothe", while þ is the sound heard in "thistle", "thunder", and "width".
@@inkylynx2777 I could probably handle that much lol. But when it comes to rolling letter off the tongue like Rs I won't be able to do it at all.
Thank you so much. Awesome
I actually can't believe this exists. A real old Norse cover of my mother told me. FINALLY. Man you are deffinatly the best. Keep up the amazing work.
Grim frost also did a old Norse cover of it, it also sounds super good like this cover
@@TheScarletKing1476 Hinderfjall was the group on Grimfrost Records that did this cover in Old Norse. They even got Peter Franzen (King Harald Fairhair from History's "Vikings" tv show) to provide guest vocals like he did on the show. It's amazing! ua-cam.com/video/8aveUs1o6e4/v-deo.html
@@HroduuulfSonOfHrodger I KNEW I HEARD SOMEONE I KNEW I DIDNT KNOW FROM WHERE THO THATS SO FREAKING COOL
@@TheScarletKing1476 Yeah, I think it's the best version out there to date. Do you listen to Hinderfjall's other songs? They are all great. Also, I hope you know of Wardruna, Heilung, Danheim, Runfell, and many other groups who are also doing these styles of traditional Norse/Germanic Heathen songs.
Definitely
There's just something about hearing a song in the language it's meant to be sung in that makes it really come to life.
Especially if it's died our, or rather no one speaks it casually, such as old nordic, a language that someday I want to learn
@@rockahollic7691 died out? It's basically icelandic.
@@sigururkvaran1983 and yet, old norse is a dead language. There is no-one today that's a native speaker of old norse, therefore it's a dead language. Just like latin.
@@sigururkvaran1983 it evolved into Icelandic/Germanic, just as Latin evolved into Spanish/French/English. It's a Root language; and, just like Ancient Greek, and Ancient Egyptian, it no longer has any native speakers. You can certainly learn these languages, but there are no communities that actively speak these languages natively.
So true
I love this song
My cat listened to this, now she's pulling Freyja's chariot.
In Norse it is is Freya not Freyja
😂😂😂😂
This was a poem written in Egils Saga from Íslendingasögur or Sagas of Icelanders. Egils Saga tails the life of members in Egil Skallagrímsson clan. From Egils grandfather to his children. He was a war age poet and a farmer with suposed mystical powers. The Íslendingasögur is also known as the Family Sagas. Mostly historical events retold by different families around the Saga Age in early Iceland, the ninth to early eleventh century. According to his Saga, the poem was suposedly written after his first murder at a very young age. The shows and games that use it now greatly alter the original poem in the Saga. I have the saga with me as I directly quote what is the most commonly accepted translation of the poem:
My mother wants a price paid
To purchase my proud-oared ship;
Standing high in the stern
I'll soar for plunder,
The stout viking stearsman
Of this shining vessel:
Then home to harbour
After hewing down a man or two
Translation slightly alters it, but not in any meaningful way. Egils Saga is very interesting as a whole. One of my favorite Sagas personally. The story goes that when he was six he and the boy Grim who was 11, were playing ball. Grim is winning, Egil is mad and hits him. Grim then wrestles him to the ground. Egil is not happy with this so he goes home, seeks his friend and the two get axes. Egil cuts Grims head through the brain down to the teeth. This causes the adults of the two houses to fight and seven more men to die. His father is disappointed for causing so much suffering and death for nothing. His mom is proud however and tells him she thinks its a sign he will be a great viking and people should get him fighting ships. He writes the poem after his mother tells him this. And as a side note, here are two other translations that are not as accepted today.
The contemporary English translation is roughly: "Mother told me they ought to buy me a ship and good oars. I ought to go with Vikings, stand up in the ship, steer the good ship, sail into harbor, kill one man after another."
The most literal translation is(yes, spelling and all): "Thus spake my mother, That for me should they buy a barque and beauteous oars to go forth with Vikings. Stand in the stern, Steer a dear vessel, Hold course for a haven, Hew down many foemen."
Thanks for sharing, I really enjoy read about mythology, folklore, and history. I appreciate this.
That is what comments on UA-cam are really for.
I bow to you, for you brought me a gift of knowledge
I want to read this book
As a speaker of English and German, when I read your final translation I could hear the words in Norse. 🙏
Definitely one of the absolute bests of the Sagas of the Icelanders.
I find it melancholic, i am Scandinavien and i don't understand a single word, old norse was so enchanting that i wish it survived more to this day so it would be convenient to learn
Actually Icelandic is pretty close to old norse!
My historical linguistic heart is SCREAMING
I learnt a lil old norse in my degree and it's so hard but sooooo cool! Much love!
So what do you do with that degree? I am linguistic-curious! Tell me everything! 😂💕
@@leahg3926 So my degree was English language though it had a lot of linguistics in it, including modules on Old English (which is like a completely different language and I found so fun to study) and our lecturer ran a short summer course on old Norse just for fun, so it didn't necessarily go towards anything for me but was so interesting to study. If you specialise in historical linguistics there's work you can go into in archiving, museum studies and translation kind of things (though I went and did a master's in forensic linguistics instead, which I'm just finishing). Hope that helps haha, linguistics is always such an under-talked about subject even when it cover so much, every aspect is just fascinating! ❤️
@@leahg3926 I have a B.A in Linguistics (theoretical, with a focus on generative linguistics), and I'm studying for an M.Sc in Computer Science (focus on natural language processing) and the one thing I tell people who are linguistically-curious is that there is so much more to linguistics than just etymology and phonology - which is really exciting! It's probably the only discipline in which you can combine an understanding in philosophy and formal logic, sociology and anthropology, psychology and neuroscience, mathematics and statistics, history, and computer science. It's great stuff. And as for what you can do with it - well, personally I aim to go into academic computational linguistics, but work in any of the above fields is available, if you find a good program.
Same im more a linguistic hobbiest some day by God's wills I hope to speak English Chinese (cantonese,mandarin and lung du) Japanese, old English and Somali
Shwa
Pure brilliance. It hasnt even started yet and it already sounds good
Agreed.
If your voice was any more deeper, it would strike oil. If your voice was any more eloquent, it would shower diamonds and battle axes. Keep up the amazing work!!!
He would create a black hole
@@leonsixt2744 if it were both deeper and more eloquent he definitely would
He'd discover a balrog.
@@TheRealSkeletor And charm the balrog with his singing.
It's pitch shifted
This has a real bad ass vibe to it… Wouldn’t be surprised if this is going to be at some point used in a trailer ❤️
Language from when the ships were made of wood and the men were made of iron.
God of War: Ragnarök
@@NordicBeast98 Precisely!
@@NordicBeast98 that would be perfect
Someone should take a mash of AC Valhalla and GOW Valhalla trailers with this
My ancestors are smiling, they speak of great music to come
💕💜❤️💕
your ancestors were butchered at Stamford bridge and Ashdown. Now their legacy lies in American pop culture television and dirt, while the people they failed to conquer colonised the planet and created the worlds largest empire.
@@kingofrome9983 The people the failed to conquer did become fucking evil monsters who committed genocides so… maybe that whole area was fucked.
Actually a lot of society’s did that
You can tell he was immersed,dude had killer eyes while singing death itself.
Well this proves that colm is a norse god in human form this and the thunderous voice
Ew, pagan
@@Nessy385 ew someone who’s not accepting of others beliefs and actively are calling my ancestors “bad”……..
@@swedishbloke may the gods shine upon you
@@Nessy385 "According to my God your God doesn't exist" is a moronic perspective.
@@Nessy385 ”they believed wrong”…….. you are only proving even more that religion is the main problem of our society….. I’m going to make you tell me that I’m going to hell with 2 simple facts about me. First of, I do not believe in any god. There is no divine. What happens in our lives aren’t pre determined but are direct effects of our former actions. The only thing that affects us are our personality are our imediate surroundings and our parents.
Now onwards to the second thing. IM GAY AS HELL. SO YEA I MIGHT GO TO HEL BUT ILL HAVE ALL MY FELLOW GAY MEN WITH ME DOWN THERE!
Old Norse is so incredibly interesting on a purely phonetic level, doubly so as someone born in Scandinavia and being able to pick up up words with my modern understanding.
Honestly you have a singularly spectacular voice. Your vocal range is breathtaking, from the thundering lows you seem to strike with such ease, to the magnificent highs.
Rock on Colm, bloody Rock on, mate!
isn't it almost identical to modern icelandic?
@@huawafabe It's very very close, from my understanding the written text is very close to modern icelandic
@@huawafabe in writing and grammar, yes. But the pronunciation/phonology is pretty different
From what I understand of the subject, which is to say a very limited understanding, yes Icelandic is the closest approximation of modern use Old Norse has.
@@girv98 what if you just speak Icelandic in the Old Norse pronunciation/phonology
Bro be hitting those low notes perfectly. If you ever find yourself back in time in a Norse settlement, please start a band and travel the lands singing.
His voice is pitch shifted
@@stevenseagal5950 indeed
my mother told me: "if you don't do the dishes then you won't get any brownies"
so i smashed them all with a war axe
I'm guessing you didn't get the brownies did you?
@@leonardodenni1562 I in fact did not :(
Funny
@@doomslayer6906 she didn't tell you what way to do the dishes tho...
@@matthewcox3563 could have been he didn't do them well enough with his axe.
Now I know why the British feared the norse. Imagine hearing this deep ass voice singing in a tongue you don't understand In a foggy ass mist approaching.
Not to mention that some of the Viking warriors were women so being killed on the battlefield by a woman would've been so depressing to a soldier.
@@mikaylababjac9585 Valkyrie were terrors on the battlefield. Imagining thin, muscular women moving VERY fast with ruthless efficiency is horrifying.
@@GetDougDimmadomed The Viking warriors were some of the strongest on Earth. They were a force to be reckoned with.
@@GetDougDimmadomed valkyries where folklore creatures who would escort half of the fallen into Valhalla. Female warriors were called shieldmaidens.
@@mikaylababjac9585 Actually only 13 women ever to take part in raiding if anything, raiding and trading where done by men but women did participate in exploration.
Hearing this in the original language... This is how it would have sounded when my ancestors sang it... It has a haunting quality, the weight of ages and a fierce sense of warrior pride.
I can’t stop listening to this. I thought I was over my “My Mother Told Me phase” … apparently not. This is hauntingly beautiful. Long live Vikings. ❤️
*Vikingrs ;P Calling them Vikings is like saying "Programs" to refer to programmers xD
Hear it in my head every goddamn day lol.
you aren't over that phase til you cross an ocean, sack a monastery and claim a kingdom.
Tienes razón es realmente increíble
i have like 10 versions of this song i listen to regulary but this one is the best
I can't believe it, a few days ago I was just thinking how would sound Colm singing that song in old norse, and now, there he is!!
In all honesty, old Germanic Languages (Old English, Norse, and German) have such a uniquely ancient appeal to them and this is just one example
English used to be this way.
Then everything changed the French Normans attacked.
Now if I could get some legit fluent Irish Gaelic I'd be SO HAPPY
@@walnzell9328 French ruined English :(
I always wondered how German would sound for non-native speakers. Maybe this is getting me an idea of it - and it's amazing.
@WALN Zell Danish changed the English language
I'm so jealous of his vocal range. This song gave me chills. Definitely going into my favorites!
His lows are pitch shifted
@@PaganMin671 no it isnt
@@PaganMin671 no it isn't not my friend
@@PaganMin671 what typo?
I did accept the truth. His voice I very obviously pitch shifted.
@@PaganMin671 it is actually.
This is by far the easiest to understand rendition of this song vocally speaking, real clear on the pronunciation and every word and letter sounding like it should. Another brilliant performance. I'm certain that you put a lot of work into it, and it shows. Well done.
As a Slav I really like to listen to this for hours, our old pagans ancestors fought each other, but we were all great warriors, great respect for the Vikings. Be proud of your heritage.
I love how this is better than ANY existing version. I'm blown away ❤️
Frt he needs to make hour long version
My favorite version is the one by grimfrost, but that has a lot to do with their accuracy, both in the video and in the pronunciation of the words
@@fritzmoy101 okay, I didn't even know that version existed! Thank you for mentioning it ❤️
@@JackieTheDeviL1869 no problem, also did not mean to bash Colms version, it's amazing and sounds great, just wanted to bring grimfrosts version to the foreground too
@@fritzmoy101 don't worry! It didn't come off as bashing this version, at least in my opinion
When I closed my eyes, it felt like I traveled in time and get to the vikings. They're sitting near the fire, sining songs, dancing, telling stories. Then they do their usual work and get redy for winter. And go through the see to fight with enemies and rushed gold and steel before winter comes. Your voice, music and the manner of playing made me feel like that. Thank you so much for those emotions. You are incredible musician.
Why can't I reapeatly smash the thumb up on your comment? :(
As someone who is fascinated by the old Nordic this is absolutely amazing and it really is hauntingly beautiful just imagine an entire hall of vikings chanting this in unison
If I heard hundreds of voices singing this across the ocean I'd suddenly decide to move inland... on a different continent... on a different planet...
@@enoughofyourkoicarp funniest thing about that is... THIS IS BASICALLY A LULLABY. it's originally a poem written by a berserker about how his mother was proud of him after he murdered another boy of 11 years old at age 6 and knew he was gonna be a great warrior when he grew up. she wasn't wrong either, he's one of only a select handful of berserkers listed by name in the sagas, most of the others are his relatives, and one of the only ones we have an extensive account of.
some of egil's other highlights:
won a duel by chewing through a man's neck with his teeth.
became a hated enemy of Eric Bloodaxe after killing one of his retainers and later his son, is outlawed and flees to iceland, earns a pardon for the murders with a poem.
can't remember if it was him or his father, but one of them was invited to dine with a jarl/king, and made ugly faces at him until the king literally bribed him to stop.
@@gourdguru I vaguely remember someone told me he wrote it at age 3 which I thought was a bit strange, I guess six makes a bit more sense.
I don't know why I don't get tired of this song. This is a whole new level of awesome.
Same here. 😁
Thats because this, and other songs from him, focus on vocals and use instruments as background. Radiostations play the Wellerman around here, from Nathan evans. That version pales in comparison to his original one due to modern soundeffects... Similar things also happen when you compare this to Metal versions where you just think something is missing in them, like, the metal part.
I think that is the original point of these shanties: Something that can be song by anyone, anywhere, doing anything, and can repeat.
Even without mentioning the outstanding vocals, this arrangement is so compelling!
I'm learning Old Norse at the minute so this really helps me boost motivation
Same. I memorized the song and sing it all the time now
@@ChristianThomasLeitel - I sincerely hope you break it out while standing in line while grocery shopping or something :P
I wish I had his vocal range, he hits as deep as the earth's core
Your vocal range amazes me. I was a high first soprano but my voice has dropped and hearing the depth of your vocal quality is so impressive! Love it.
It's pitch shifted
@@stevenseagal5950 Wow. You really are under every single comment mentioning his deep voice. Think you might need a therapist or two for that obsession. Something tells me I'll find you commenting this on his other videos too, lol. And you have the audacity to tell others to get bent, projection is a helluva thing.
@@Nyx_2142 yeah I'm correcting stupidity and obvious pitch shifting, and it's hard to believe people fall for it.
And this is the only video I've commented on.
Funny that you're scouring around looking to fight with me.
Yep, i absolutely do have the audacity to do that, especially when they're objectively wrong, and would rather be stuck up cunts than admit they're wrong.
Funny thing isn't it?
And how is this projection? Lol you just love throwing random terms out their like "source?" And "projection".
You don't even know what you're saying, just parroting other comments you've seen.
@@stevenseagal5950 Cope harder.
This song brings me to tears at 1:41 every time and I’ve heard it about 20 times so far. Soon to be 20 thousand
Me too bruh 😂😂
THIS GUY'S VOICE HITS ME 🔥✊
An Incredible talent, a talent of the age, a legend of his people. More please.
I learned this song in Old Norse and English. It’s my daughters favorite lullaby. Skål!
Really that's cool!! Are you Norse?
I didn't know old Norse is a thing. Such an education I'm getting here. 😂💕
Skål 🍻
That's got to be the most adorable comment on this thread. Skål!
@@maggiem6209 Well, until you learn that the last few lines of the poem are " sail into a harbor, kill one man after another."
WOW There's something unfathomably beautiful and comforting in rich masculine voices.
Awesome music, awesome choirs, awesome song. Thanks!
Bro the original of this song is epic and the fact this is in old Norse is really the cherry on the icing, absolutely amazing man keep it up!!!
I'm also an Irish folk, uppa Irish heathens!
While modern Scandinavian languages are very different, Icelandic is still very similar to Old Norse in many ways, so it's fun to see how much I can understand without translation (I speak Icelandic)
I always said ancient languages sound so badass and this song confirms, this song was amazing
i like how Scandinavian last names still related to the old gods. like your name which is translated to daughter of freyja the vanir god
@@mustaav96hat applies also to german and Dutch Woensdag:woden (odin) day Donderdag:Thunor (thor) day
Vrijdag: Freyja day
Forseti-Voorzitter,meaning: president in dutch
@@HYDROCARBON_XD And also English -- Sun, Moon, Tiu/Tiw/Tyr, Wodan/Odin, Thor, Freya,
@@sarco64yeah,but it has been influenced by French a lot
In Icelandic today it would be like:
Það mælti mín móðir,
að mér skyldi kaupa
fley og fagrar árar,
fara á brott með víkingum,
standa upp í stafni,
stýra dýrum knerri,
halda svo til hafnar
höggva mann og annan,
höggva mann og annan.
3:42 was hands down my favorite part. I really wish I wasn't allergic to wool so I could support those lovely jumpers.
(The song was cool too.)
I stepped into the music world with my own efforts and improved myself with intense efforts. It all started with playing guitar in a school band 6 years ago. I am currently studying cello, piano and singing at the same time. You are obviously one of the people I look up to. I hope one day I can create amazing works like yours
He doesn’t even look like his voice is supposed to be that low. The thought of trying this as a soprano hurts lol. This is haunting 💕💕
Simply fantastic. Since I don't know Old Norse, I'll just say that I think you did well on the pronunciation and thank you for bringing out the Tagel once more!
Hahaha cheers mate! I keep forgetting I own it 😂
I knew you are Balder. And now you have shown us. But seriously this will be so awesome. Can't wait for your take on this Balder Mcguinness
Looks like he has hair to me.
Hopefully he stays away from mistletoe
We need him alive
@@edwardcrowe3081 mistletoe? What? No no, dear Hodr this is simply a branch, go ahead and throw it
SKALD!
Makes me want to run a Viking themed horror D&D survival campaign. Have the PCs come rolling up to a fog shrouded shore looking for some good old fashioned raiding only to find all the inhabitants already slain. Upon returning to their boat it has been scuttled. The dead begins to rise. Demons run free. Have to survive and figure out what happen.
that would be fucking awesome, and this song would fit so well in that I can see it now a ship full of warriors show up ready to grab some good shit and some slaves and they come in and it's just quiet as they look around slowly with shield and axe in hand and slowly walk about and some peek into the Homes only to find skeletons sitting at the tables as if they had only just died but had decomposed rather fast and this sends a chill down their spins so they look to their war party leader for an answer but even he's scared and so they beat it back to the ship only to find it gone not just scuttled but just gone as if it never was there and that's when the dead rise and the warriors all stand together in a circle weapons ready but then suddenly the skeletal dead all attack and cut to pieces frozen in fear warriors and only the war party leader and maybe his son are the only survivors and they just drop their shit and run into the forest and then that's where it kicks off as a survival story of this father son duo trying to escape the skeletal dead who are now searching for them and they are now trying to make better weapons to deal with the dead.
This has been the best version I've heard so far, didn't like it in English. Are the irish songs coming up? Fingers still crossed for "the green fields of france", and "One I love".
Have you heard this one yet: Hinderfjall was the group on Grimfrost Records that did this cover in Old Norse. They even got Peter Franzen (King Harald Fairhair from History's "Vikings" tv show) to provide guest vocals like he did on the show. It's amazing! ua-cam.com/video/8aveUs1o6e4/v-deo.html
I'm positively giddy about this!! I don't even need to hear it to know how epic this is...but I have my reminder set anyway...
Unbelievable, I have a grandfather that can talk like a viking and act like one, but this just amazing
As a scandi i lold at ur comment
@@cjcj233 ....did bro just say "loled"
In the name of Odin, what did you just wake up from its sleep? 😱😲😄
I Think I can speak for all scandinavians when I say THANK YOU /TACK for this version 🙏
And If this doesn't end up in a scandinavian movie I don't know what will 🍻Skål
Skål!!! 💚
If a song is on repeat for more then an hour now you know it is captivating hypnotizing and beyond.............. Wauw
This is amazing.
To the one's thinking it's auto-tuned, check out "The Hu Band". I think they are from Mongolia and their singing style is called "Throat singing". It's an ancient singing style that is making a comeback.
There are many styles of khoomei - throat singing. He may be using the kargyraa style, which relies on vocal fry, to get the bottom notes. It's similar in technique to the "death metal growl".
@@paulsmith5752 Thank you for clarifying. I'm not up on the names of anything; I just know that it's wonderful.
He's not throat singing, he has a low voice, but it's not that low and is pitch shifted.
He has a very dark timbre on his low notes. Many basses can sing in that range in chest, but he has a very unique voice.
I love The Hu. Saw them I'm concert recently (they were one of the openers for FFDP) Anyhoo, I'm glad throat vocals are making a comeback. I love that sound.
The fact that it sounds insanely like a Klingon opera makes it even better. 😱
Klingons WISH they could sing this deep
I wonder what languages the Klingon language was based on.
@@walnzell9328 Believe it or not, the Klingon language's basic sound, along with a few words, was devised by actor James Doohan ("Scotty") and producer Jon Povill for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". Other details can be found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language
This will be your finest work! i cannot wait!
3:02 COLM JUMPSCARE
I love this song ! Never heard it in Old Norse, though…. I am impressed. Colm must have been a Viking warrior in an earlier life
This is just fantastic. I've heard quite a few versions of the song, but never in Old Norse. Simply amazing.
Also, dat mic quality tho
So who else wants to raid an old English monastery
I'd just like to say that your music has helped me greatly while I'm at college. Me being a procrastinator, I stress over three days straight getting work done in succession. I usually have your music on loop while I work, which helps pass the time as I either write papers, do 3D modeling, or visual effects. Keep up the great work!
You and Alina Gingertail need to do a colab with this song, you two are absolutely amazing!
with headphones on, i feel like i can see back in time to my ancestors pulling an oar on a wolfship, cutting through ice filled waters with battle brothers chanting this
absolutely wonderful performance
I always love hearing songs in the elder tongues. This is so amazing.
Oh yeah!
The gods will honor you in Valhalla for making such an amazing cover of this song!
I knew I wanted you to sing this song, I just never knew how badly I needed to hear you sing old Norse until now…🥺
Immediate chills very hauntingly sounding. Love the old norse it makes this song sound menacing and pair it with colms voice perfect match. Thanks for this great song.
This man living under the bedrock 💥
Finally a piece I can join in comfortably. So nice when there's true bass parts
One of my favourite songs in a cover I Never Knew I NEEDED
I always love hearing songs being sung in their native language, there's just a kind of magic that the English versions don't have
I'm speechless....this is SO AMAZING! I heard many versions of this song but yours is the truely godfather🧙🏼♂️
"Bring me a man with a voice like thunder. That same one must have mastered every musical instrument under the sun."
The king grinned with dark satisfaction, for he knew there existed no man on Earth who could fulfill his request.
The condemned knight smiled in return.
"Behold, Your Majesty, Colm McGuinness."
Listening to the bard perform, the king realized that he had made a grave error.
"It seems I have won our bet. You are bound by the magical vow. I am free...and your kingdom is mine."
Amazing since I lived in Sweden for 10 years and know old Norse
Holy shit... listened twice back to back. Turned it up louder the second time... my roommates think I'm nuts as I sit here jamming out to a song in old Norse sung by a fellow ginger. I absolutely love your stuff. I can't tell you what people like you have done for me when I'm in a dark place. Keep up the great work man!
I wonder if you'd want to perform the United States Marines Corps hymn at some point. I'd love to see your take on it.
So glad this is going to be in spotify. Going right on the Norse playlist I have.
Hearing him talk normally gave me whiplash
Colm, the Paragon of all songs - supported by everyone, can't describe how good each and everyone of your songs and covers are.
Just a little something I put together while I listened to the song:
_Upon a small yet tall peninsula overlooking a sleepy little costal town; sat a modest monastery, simple in its construction, rich in its contents..._
The Fog was thick, the night was calm. Brother Ancaeus shuffled along the pews, lighting the evening candles. All was right, all was calm.
"Another quiet evening brother," came the murmuring voice of brother Bard. Turning to him, Ancaeus blew out his matchstick as he completed his tasks for the night, taking a seat with his monastic brother in the front most pew. "Yes, brother. The seas are calm tonight and the town lays still in its slumber." he answered, "But if that is so, what troubles you presently?"
As he waits, the wind along the coast picks up; a dull susurration in the night. The town is quiet, the night is no longer still.
"Have you heard from the other monasteries and temples Ancaeus? They speak of a new evil come to our shores as of these past few winters." He turns to him, eyes gleaming in sharp concern.
"No, I have been here brother; tending to my duties as always. If any here have heard news from beyond our walls it would be you. Is it not you who receives the shipments from the town?"
A shuddering breath answers, "I do, brother, I do. But it is from the men who bring us supplies I have also heard of these rumors."
Ancaeus takes a moment to tuck his hands into the sleeves of his simple homespun robes, the night air is cool tonight, and candles are poor substitutes for the warm roaring fire in the dorms. The wind sings freely now, the fog is thicker still.
"Tell me about these rumors, brother Bard." There is a pause, a faint murmur on the wind.
"These are not the normal bandits and brigands of old Ancaeus. This is something new, they are far fiercer than a bandit, more hardy than our knights. The things I have heard..." He trails off as he rubs his left arm absentmindedly, a grimace ghosting across his face. Noticing this Ancaeus murmurs, "Are your old wounds troubling you brother? Do you want me to go get sister Hypatia?"
Bard looks on, his eyes unfocused, his mind in another time, another place. "No, no. Pray do not trouble her, she would flay us both for rousing her before morning prayers." A small chuckle comes from Ancaeus, "That is true, brother, without a doubt."
The two men share a companionable silence, a calm moment before the storm. _The wind Roars._
Cocking his head to a side, and pulling the side of his hood back a fraction, brother Bard listens to the silence. An unease begins to creep into the hall, and a stronger breeze still, whistles through the cracks in the old monastery doors. "What is it, brother?" Ancaeus whispers, "I know not Ancaeus, there is a breath upon the wind that was not blown by God."
_The wind is howling, the fog deepens and creeps upon the shore._
Bard turns to Ancaeus, eyes hard with an old alertness, "I do not like it brother, there is something foul in the air, by the saints and by my years as a soldier I swear it." The younger monk looks back to the double doors leading to the outside world, they face out to sea, constantly battered by the salt air. _The whisper is a murmur, a faint chant on the paths in the sky._
"I think I hear it Bard, it sounds like...chanting? Like morning prayer?" Bards eyes widen, then shrink back into hard pinpricks of obsidian.
"That may be a prayer, but not to our God."
_The howling wind has a brother, its song joins it to its own._
Both men leap to their feet, Bard claps his hands on his younger companion.
"Ancaeus, heed my words; rouse everyone, take the sisters and our brothers whom abstain from the sword and fly, fly to the woods. Send brother Solomon to the town to raise the alarm. Tell brothers Alexander, Horace, and William to meet me here, understand?"
"Yes Bard."
"Good lad, May the Lord lend wings to your feet. Now go!"
_The Wind Sings its lamentations, upon it burbles and groans the chants of many throats in concert, all drift in from the fog out at sea._
Glancing back at the monastery, brother Ancaeus sees a figure at the door, one hand raised in a solemn farewell. Turning back to the forest he waves to another group slipping out from the now bright fishing village; women and children herded by old men with fishing spears. They all slink into the woods, dousing their lanterns and torches as they go.
_Within the Temple, an old Warrior prepares for war once more._
"Brothers, the barbarians come. The other men are preparing in the village, we shall stay and defend the monastery. They have sent a rider to Lord FitzHarold for aid. I pray to the Lord that they arrive in time." As he speaks the four men descend the stairs down into an old storeroom. Therin lies four chests, all stamped on the latch with a simple symbol; a sword and rose crossed behind the head of a raven. Each man opens their chest to reveal neatly folded chainmail, battered and notched plates with specks of rust, and on top in each lay a simple shortsword in a plain battered leather scabbard wrapped in a swordbelt. A moment is taken by each man, before as one they arm and armor themselves, old hands quick in the familiar task.
_Upon the sea-within the fog, a song rises up carried by men grim in their task._
The Fog is thinning, the night is tense. A dozen throats chant in concert. A dozen hearts beat in fevered anticipation. A dozen eyes scan the shore, looking for an opening. Then, the Skirl led his crew in another chant, to ready them for battle. Its chant carried on the wind, settling onto the village like a thick blanket.
"Þat mælti mín móðir,
at mér skyldi kaupa
fley ok fagrar árar,
fara á brott með víkingum,
standa upp í stafni,
stýra dýrum knerri,
halda svá til hafnar
hǫggva mann ok annan,
hǫggva mann ok annan."
"Þél höggr stórt fyr stáli
stafnkvígs á veg jafnan
út með éla meitli
andærr jötunn vandar,
en svalbúinn selju
sverfr eirar vanr þeiri
Gestils ölpt með gustum
gandr of stál fyr brandi."
wow
this probably happened many a time during the raids when wild men came from the whale road
however I must confess my wondering if the Arms and Amour could have come from the time the banners of S.P.Q.R flew over the southern reaches of said peninsula ?
@@HrLBolle perhaps...
@@theirishrave6448 only he who goes by an untold number names knows for certain
north of the alps he was once known as Odin, to the south his name was once long ago Iupiter Capitonlinus or to south- eastern folk he went by the name of Zeus.
This was an awesome short story, you have a great talent as a writer.
@@damsarebiotic6263 now if only i could put time into writing my books....
This dude needs to sing this for the new DND movie. Bro. Gives me chills.
truly a godlike version of this song, you nailed it with your voice !
😮My friend I don't know what it is about your voice but every time you sing it just sounds so damn empowering I just want to workout for 24 hours straight this is my first time listening and I cannot tell you how much I am enjoying this please more songs like this... I'm jealous why can't I have a voice like this
That tenor section “chefs kiss”
Y’all know he killed another child, so his mom took this as a sign that he should have a ship so he could kill more people, steal things, and gain gold and glory, right? Mighty deeds and killing strong enemies was essential to their heroic ideal.
Rendition is breathless!
"What have you done today, Egill?"
"I crushed a kid's skull with an axe, mommy!"
"Oh, that's not very nice, but we're vikings so... whatever. Let's buy a boat."
Seems legit to me.
Who's this about?
Can't believe You've learned in old norse, You're just crazy!
Hearing that Old Norse in a deep growl makes ones hackles rise.
this is the best thing I've ever heard. Congratulations on a really great talent
OH MY GOODNESS YES I COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED FOR THIS IF I TRIED
Why can I feel this? I have norse heritage but have never spoken the language. Yet somehow this feels like the songs of my people. It calls to something that I didn't know was missing.
Set a reminder for this! Thanks yet again for consistent uploads, does it hurt your throat to sing this much???
Best song of all youtube incoming
Listening to this song all the way through boosts yuor vril
Actually was able to catch it the premiere this time! This was amazing when you use the deeper gravelly voice it goes so well with the Old Norse! I feel like I’m in a movie about Vikings!