To Paris and Beyond (A Tribute to Iceland National Football Team)

Inspired by the outstanding - miraculous, even - feats which the Iceland national football team achieved at the UEFA Euro 2016 football championship tournament, I decided to make this little tribute video to them. By uploading it I do not intend any kind of copyright infringement whatsoever as pertains to the music and images / video clips used. I don't seek to make any profit, but to cherish the wonderful tale of the Icelandic footballers in the aforementioned tournament.
The music is taken from the album "The Varangian Way" by the Finnish metal band Turisas, a song called "To Holmgard and Beyond". Hence the word play in the title of the video, and even though the lyrics of the song originally deal about the Varangian vikings and their journeys towards the city of Constantinople, I get the feeling that in some ways they can be applied to the journey of the Iceland national football team as well, a journey that continued as far as the quarter-finals, where France put an end to it... (for now...)
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MUSIC:
Artist: Turisas
Song: To Holmgard and Beyond
Album: The Varangian Way
Label: Century Media
Year: 2007
Music and lyrics by Mathias Nygård
LYRICS:
Far from the sea and distant lands
Came men with thirty ships
Had wanted to reach the Neva by night
But the weather was not on their side
And as the wind grew stronger and stronger
The rain ran down our cheeks
The bow was turned towards Gardar
The sail flew up again
Holmgard and beyond
That's where the winds will us guide
For fame and for gold
Set sail for those lands unknown
Osmo and Dalk, Kyy, Kokko, and Ulf
Were glad to be off the oars
Turo had eaten too much again
Now hanging himself overboard
The Tostensson twins were excited as always
Adventure was their game
Myself, Hakon the Bastard,
Was out to find my name
Holmgard and beyond
That's where the winds will us guide
For fame and for gold
Set sail for those lands unknown
Who is "I" without a past?
A river without a source?
An event without a cause?
Threads of different lengths
Some longer, some shorter
So many of them spun together
The crones keep on weaving
The algorithm of our lives
Cause and effect, the fates of men
We know the way to Aldeigju
Upstream the river Alode
You take us to the portage
And further-
Long is the way to the unknown
Long are the rivers in the East
Far lies the land that Ingvar
And his men desire to reach
Many dangers lie ahead
Some of us may never return
Rather sold as a slave to the Saracens
Than chained to your bed, chained by your life!
Holmgard and beyond
That's where the winds will us guide
For fame and for gold
Set sail for those lands unknown

[@lauralol7346]

This is truly what I needed, Iceland played so well it's been outstanding! I'm so proud I just am speechless! France played well it was a fair game, I just wish Iceland went further, but they got so far it's unbelievable! I'm so proud.

[@Bengedoes]

Nice! I'm from Holland and have been supporting Iceland instead

[@Totenkopfzwerg]

Myself I'm a fan of Die Mannschaft through and through, but I still enjoyed and appreciated the huge feats that Iceland achieved in this tournament.