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  • I think I'm in love with this song...! <3

  • Another one of her songs worth crying over (the other being "Standing Stones").

  • I soooo badly wanted to, at least, hear this video but the frequent stoppages make this whole experience one big pain-in-the-ass.... Thanks, anyway.

  • amazing music!!!

  • Maybe someone has already said this i don't know. I like to read other peoples comments to see what they think of the song and wonderful artist who made this, and i got a little perturbed. It is my belief that Loreena's music is a compilation of music, and poems gathered from around the world and put together into such an arrangement that although we might be from different religions, cultures, and countries we can still appreciate it for what it is... great music by a great artist

  • Beautiful beginning with the moving water and the voices.

  • 'So perish all would true love part

    That Love may still be lord of all!'

    Beautiful <33

  • Beautiful video and Loreena Mckennitt's voice is MAGICAL. Thank you.

  • My favourite Loreena McKennit song, whenever I hear the opening it sends me to a dreamscape

  • When you or anyone hears this there is hope for this world.Thank you.

  • A haunting melody....it pierces my soul.

  • Wow, what a voice and what a song. Beautiful video - fits the song perfectly.

    Thank you for the few minutes of serene pleasure.

  • Sir Walter Scott is fantastic!!!<3<3<3

  • awesome, wonderful

    magical

    there are no words to describe....

    it gives me calmness...♥

  • @black24345 indeed

  • This music is beautiful!!!!!!!! Have I so far read correctly? You were in Sweden? Where exactly in Sweden? Can you speak swedish? For I can. I've been in south (Skane) and in the north (Kiruna).

  • Like the video also!

  • I remember listening to this in the car and seeing the after math of a car crash. Broken bones, red flashing lights, but love shall still be lord of all.

  • @OmnomTheDevourer :O:O:O:O:O

  • Loreena is a gem. She tells us stories and takes us on jouneys of other times and places. I am in awe of her talent and love her music. Thanks for posting.

  • I love this song. Every time I hear it I feel at peace. It's beautiful

  • This song reflects the sad, sad reality of hate between nations...The brother of the English lady prefers to kill his own sister rather than seeing "a Scottish knigth the lord of all", which means, husband of the lady an co-owner of her lands!

  • hah! it didnt freeze for me

  • i love this song

  • não posso falar muito eu sempre viajei no meu mundinho com as musicas celtas da lorena.

  • aye a fair song when one is in dispair.. thy heart travels such a journey thru life as it may be.. as it will be fancy a dance and be still my heart. :) forever

  • Beautiful song and beautiful videos, too! This will definately help me with my writing.

  • The Violin, it makes me see all peace, when i hear the violin in all these songs, is see them, the trees...the water, the earth...it sounds cheesy but it's true, i dream a world i know to be true.

  • very beautiful she has the best voice ever, Avenir Albania

  • It was so beautiful it brought me to tears ^^

  • i love this song so much....my fave from her

  • Beautiful Sweden <3

  • loreeanna sen insan değilsin sıradışı ama çok sıradışı hayranım sana

  • She is voice  sweet in CD´S But when coming to Lima -Peru for a Concert only People Funny.

  • I like how it begins the song is so beautiful and soothing but also sad in some way

  • Onu dinlemek bir Meleğin ninnisiyle uyumak gibi .. Onu dinlemek daha çok aşık olmak, onu dinlemek aşka meydan okumak ..

  • Love this

  • very good stuff for relaxing and dreaming. love this sort of music. my soul fly away.............

  • Hate ta burst your bubble az but one of the few things the Catholics got right was to drive Islam from spain.Take a good look at France today as well as many Muslim "countries" around the world and I promise you they make early catholic europe look like utopia! Think I,m fulla shit? Check out websites about Violence against women.Most Muslim(NOT ALL)countries are so intolerant towards other religions its sicking.Don,t even get me started on their brainwashing of children towards violence!

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  • @pinwizz69 Is this really the place for a diatribe?  Let yourself go, and give peace a chance, for a change...

  • To the braindead donkey's arse called 'USAsoldier1955'...I find your understanding of YOUR history stunning in its short-sighted stupidity. Presumably you believe those things called 'Law' and 'Renaissance' [amongst other things] just fell from the clouds and landed in your laps. As for Celtic Culture...I think you'll find MUSLIM SPAIN was the main reason it survived CHRISTIAN Europe...

  • How beautiful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • wonderful music and nice video :) thanks for sharing this :)

  • I have trouble with several of my favs across my playlists . . . always the same ones . . . how sad! Had to just eliminate a few out of frustration.

  • it stops on my computer too

  • What operating system are you using?

  • It was stopping on my PC, and I just paused it for a minute to let the buffer get way ahead, and it quit pausing.

  • Your video keeps stopping every few seconds. :-(

  • As already said... an angel, and as any angel... she captures our souls... indeed...

    Lovelly images, water flows as well as voice inside ourselves.

    Deeply appreciated, thanks.

  • Very scenic video to a beautiful song! Loreena has the voice of an angel

  • Uau... really truth... she does...

  • i love the scenery in the background, very fitting...especially with the string part which makes me think of an old sailing ship, rocking on the calm sea at sunset...

  • SIMPLY AMAZING !

  • She's playing in the Med this summer. See her Quinlan Road website for details. I'm catching her at Taormina, Sicily. Can't wait!

  • Hear this Lady singing, is opening the gates of an other world, a land of magic and fairies, where i want stay for ever

  • My favourite nonmetal artist.

  • geez I am supposed to be writing an english paper and a biology term paper and i cant do ethier just because of all these beutifull songs not a single pearson i have shown her music to has rejected it in any way the immediate response is amazing and incredible I just wish more people knew about this music.

  • Hey, whos poem is this? I m chilean and I have no clue.

    wonderful, anyway

  • It was written by a guy named Sir Walter Scott, he lived 1771 1832.

  • its one of my favorite poems.

  • I love this song.

  • What a great job you did!

    That song is immensely great, and the videos you added are really gorgeous! Thank you for so much beauty...

    Loreena McKennitt is just the best. The emotional power of her songs cannot be described... I am completely enthralled by her works, which are all flawless =D

  • Great video! 10/*******

  • Another very tasteful adaptation of a famous poem. Loreena really excels at that. Nice to hear her soprano range is intact into middle age, unlike so many others I could name.

  • I've been listening to this same song over and over all day. It's so beautiful!

  • This is a lovely haunting and heartbreaking song.I love Lorena's music,it is so dream-inspiring!

  • exstraordinary, sublime fantasy, majestic, elever, sumtous, symply it's Loreena a my love

    very great!!! poi c'è la pioggia e il vento,

    ci sono uomini e donne e bambini e fiori e rugiada, c'è la notte e i fantasmi, la vita che va tra le nostre fragili membra, poi c'è

    la bellezza e Loreena è pura bellezza...

  • Very ,very beautiful

  • Nice to hear that.This is such gorgeous

    music from a wonderful film.

  • what film???

  • great film and fantastic music

  • Very beautiful-5/5

  • THx ya.....^^

  • Erm,any1 can teach me how to download dis song???pls.....

    THx.....^^

  • First download Real Player.

    With this program you can download every

    video you want.

  • Basically go onto google, type in youtube converter. Find a website called FLVTO and paste the url on the address bar and paste it into the address bar on the website. This pick out the song and make it into an mp3 format so you can play on your ipod/mp3 and put on a cd.

  • Loreena McKennitt and Enya are among the top ten best ever!

  • THank you for sharing a so beautiful music

  • thats weird i found her cd's under soft rock.anyways i love this song actually all her music is beautiful it is a shame a lot of people don't know who she is.later! :)

  • her videos of nature are just awesome and the music is excellent..

  • tender warmth to you from afar under an autumn moon and a windy shore....

  • thanks you too..she's wonderful check out all her stuff..

  • The term "celtic" is a phrase that was invented in the 19th century. Europe was made up of hundreds of small different tribes with their own names. The gene that is labelled "celtic" actually has the highest pop density in Germany. Ireland's dominant genes are the Ancient Irish and not the tribes that moved west around 500-300BC. Celtic music is a misnomer, the closest thing are acts who perform in ancient language of N. Wales, W. Ireland, Brittany. We don't know what music was like BC.

  • "The English Ladye & The Knight" -

    Lukas, please take a listen...it is a Scottish

    Knight that she is in love with.

  • So reminicient of medieval romances. Also, it brings to mind the story regarding the characters Mandorallen the Knight Protector and Nerina his object of unriquited love(from David Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean"

  • really wonderful! i also made a video to that song and would be very grateful if you'd watch it! :o)

    *****

  • Evil Is Live spelled backwards, think of that one

  • Ample yogi mad as wasp saw sad amigo yelp ma is Ample yogi mad as wasp saw sad amigo yelp ma spelled backwards. Think of *that* one.

  • So poetic. She always surprises when one thinks she's already done her best. Love her.

  • The lyrics of this song are amazing and the story really nice!!!

    I just love Loreena's Music!!!

  • from the official website :)

    "This song is based on Sir Walter Scott's poem It was an English Ladye Bright, was first published in "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, 1805). It is a ballad represented as sung at the wedding festivities by Albert Graeme. Scott says the residence of the Graemes was chiefly in the Debateable Land, so called because it was claimed by both Scotland and England at the time."

  • Some say love is a four letter word, but then so is evil...strange bedfellows. One does seem to follow the other...keep singing Loreena for those of us who do believe in love.

  • and so is hate... we should not forget that either...

  • This song makes me cry!!! WHERE IS THE LOVE????

  • Our beautiful ancient Christian Heritage!

  • Christian????

    u think that celtic music has anything to do with christianity.

  • Okay first, this is definitly not celtic music. It's a song about a Scott Knight and an English lady. Obviously it's drawn from english folklore. Second, it's arguably christian since the knight ends up crusading in palastine under the sacred cross (Christian). Third: Loreena is not a celtic singer. She draws her inspiraton from all kinds of genres (a lot of celtic too I agree) she is Canadian and she can't be pigeonholed into just one category. She's too wonderful and diverse for that.

  • Loreena McKennitt cd's in many stores HAVE been put under celtic music. Much of her music is indeed celtic, and her newest album--which I find amazing sounds mostly Greek-- especially Penelope's Song (Penelope and Odysseus of the Trojan War!) I didn't find this song too christian however. I just found it to be a delightful mystical song, which Loreena's music tends to be

  • Well music stores have to put her in some kind of box.

  • The Celts (or at least the Irish) created Christian music in the West. They introduced end rhyme into Latin poetry out of Irish poetry, wrote hymns in the vernacular as well as ones going back and forth from Irish to Latin. The Celts had a great deal to do with the re-Christianisation of northern Europe after the barbarian invasions. And the Christian Celts felt that their pagan past was worth saving, so they wrote it all down, rather like the Icelanders did later.

  • The Celts did not create Western Christian music, but were certainly a part of preserving the Western European (Roman) tradition. But not exclusively. For example, without the Franks (French), Europe would now be Arabic & Mohammedan.

    We have only a hint at how ancient some of this music may be, much preserved from other cultures through ethnogenesis. Anglo-Saxon music also contributed to Celtic music, as Celts & Germans had been intermingling for millennia since prehistoric times.

  • nindojibwe -- I question whether the Celts introduced end rhyme because there isn't (to the best of my recollection) end rhyme in irish poetry although there is internal rhyme and the repeat of vowel sounds. The French are the master's of end rhyme. We often forget the contribution the Celts made to France.

    And I have been thinking of the unifying effect of the Vikings. . . but just beginning to think of it.

  • SlightlySusan, Amen! :)

    The mixing of Celts & Germans/Scandinavians certainly led to many great ethno-cultural results....such as the French, English, Scots, and Irish!

    War & intermarriage have brought much poetry....and many children....into the world!

    "For Love shall still be Lord of All! "

  • Scandinavian women were often married to enemies of their fathers and/or brothers in order promote peace between the warring families. In fact, the women were known as "peace weavers." Women are good at acquiring languages, so upper class women were sent to other kingdoms to be educated in the customs and languages of the ally/enemy. Anne Boleyn was sent to France in her early teens for just that reason.

  • I'm a seventeen male who loves metal, so I should probably hate this music.

    But I love it.

  • LOL!

  • i'm proud of you for saying that! 8D

    loreena amazing <3

  • wow

  • i love this song funny music like this always makes me day dream of love stories i am totally a romantic people think it's weird for someone my age oh well there is no age in love only what you can judge love for what it truly is weather you believe in true love or not that choice is yours

  • great tribute to a beautiful song

  • I just discovered her music, I think it's really really beautiful I lovett

  • loreena is the best! her voice is divine! it's a pity that many people don't know about her... she is a fantastic musician and singer!

  • i love this song soooo much

    my fave lm song

    voice of an angel

    yet even more beautiful

    x's

  • Nice name there.

  • Sometimes it does seem that such angelic voice is too divine for beloning to a person.

    It shows how horrible the reality we live in is..

    But at least we have those small "miracles" to smothen us...

    Sad song.. But beautiful, nontheless.

  • leydi ve şövalye

  • Preciosa^^

    Gran cantante Loreena :)

    Thanks for this video and this song^^

  • The range in her voice is amazing.

  • I think it is YOU who suck.

  • i love this song. i want to cry everytime i hear it. and the clam tranquil scenes for the video just sets the mood so well

  • Loreena is a gift from God granted to us, mere mortals, perhaps to give us a glimpse of what awaits us in Heavens...provided such a dimension does exist (I hope it does). And if it does, then she is the purest incarnation of it. "Life can be transcended" (Remember me-Josh Groban). Mine is, each time I listen to her.

  • well said

  • yay! good songs!

  • Bravely Done, my Lady!

  • Amen! :)

  • awsome! the best song.

  • the souls of those past, carry us towards the open hands of the future; very nice

  • Lovely songbird Loreena~Muse of the Lady she is~~~~

  • C'est la premier fois que j'ecoute a Loreena. Très jolie!!

  • she has the best voice

  • O the song..Can that lady sing..

    Thank you for putting it on this site..

    From the Real Green Knight.. of the Old Code.

  • I guess some italians are ephemeral, my dear... Life is short some times, when our beloved ones are not any more with us. Wonderful work and what a perfect music!

  • I'm a Norse Ladye who had an Italian Knight.

    Thank You. - Penny

  • The choir is slightly bombastic, but the song still beautiful beyond the understanding. Would here Loreena have written and the words and the music? or someone else ?

  • Loreena McKennitt wrote the music; the words are from a poen by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). This song is on her latest CD "An Ancient Muse" which everyone should listen to, at least once..."Tell me, O Muse, of those who travelled far and wide..."

  • I loved every moment of this!!!

  • this is so good. and the clips are very beautiful. good job

  • i love her songs^^ her voice is so...so...beautiful :D:D:D

  • Thanks for sharing, greetings from Croatia

  • :D:D:Doffffffffffffffffff

  • Lorenna allways moved me in her beautiful passionate music....Thanks for such a nice video

  • thank you very much for sharing!!!! i love it!

  • this would have kicked ass if it wasn't blurry

  • Yeah, the youtube processing was quite destrucive to this video.

    If you (or anybody else) are interested: I've added a link to a High-Res download to the describtion.

  • This song is so beautiful!! It makes you want to cry!! Thanks for uploading it!!!

  • soul laid bare long ago.

    star crossed love does know.

    beauty trapped in essence lives.

    Light forever burns then gives.

    voices praise earthly deeds.

    angels painted murals leads.

  • That's really lovely. Well done!

  • Can someone discribe me what exactly about is that song [ english is my second lang. ;/]...?

  • Basically, an English lady fell in love with a Scottisk knight and was going to marry him. Her brother swore that she would die before she would marry a Scot, so her brother poisoned her with wine. She died and the Scot killed her brother in revenge, then went and died in the Crusades. It's very sad, but beautiful.

  • Thank you very much for this.

  • It was an English ladye bright, (The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall,) And she would marry a Scottish knight, For Love will still be lord of all. Blithely they saw the rising sun When he shone fair on Carlisle wall; But they were sad ere day was done, Though Love was still the lord of all. Her sire gave brooch and jewel fine, Where the sun shines fair on Carlisle wall; Her brother gave but a flask of wine, For ire that Love was lord of all.
  • I realy love this one very beutiful, Her vioce is os magical and amazing. Very very Beutiful. Thank you

  • For she had lands both meadow and lea, Where the sun shines fair on Carlisle wall, For he swore her death, ere he would see A Scottish knight the lord of all. That wine she had not tasted well (The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall) When dead, in her true love's arms, she fell, For Love was still the lord of all! He pierced her brother to the heart, Where the sun shines fair on Carlisle wall -- So perish all would true love part That Love may still be lord of all!
  • incredibal it's a wonderful song it's one of my best

  • And then he took the cross divine,

    Where the sun shines fair on Carlisle wall,

    And died for her sake in Palestine;

    So Love was still the lord of all.

    Now all ye lovers, that faithful prove,

    (The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall)

    Pray for their souls who died for love,

    For Love shall still be lord of all!

  • ---Part 3

  • Thank you for putting the words down. Prejudges is so powerful and sad. But love lives on and on, even in death, love lives on and on. I feel we can all relate to this in some way. Very beutiful.

  • for me it's her poorest album so far, an ancient muse is. i adore paralell dreams and elemantal but that's because i prefer her in her celtic stuff, all this later turkish-greek-spanish or whatever seems just far less spiritual... and i'm afraid an ancient muse is just a bit boring :(

  • It's one of the best songs on "An ancient Muse". I love it.

  • Loyal American here; 1/4 English ancestry; 1/4 Scots ancestry so cannot help but identify with this. Love the lyrics.

  • WHat kind of instrament is being used in the background and during the solos? Acordian-like....

  • It's a bowed string instrument: sounds like a medieval fiddle, but it could be a modern viola played with "dtraight tone," that is the player does not produce vibrato with her/his finger when depressing the string

  • It's a Viola da Gamba (foot viola), larger than a common viola and smaller than a cello, there are in fact many sizes (for sharper or lower sound). It ceased to be used after the Baroque age, but it gives a better "medieval" feeling. Great renaissance works for that instrument, too. Check out Jordi Savall.

  • its called a hurdy gurdy. saw her in thunder bay... love that instrument and her people.. thanks for sharing

  • This is ridiculously good. Simply.

  • I also love the song, but I just want to say that those are beautiful clips! The colors and the motion of the water are very artfully done. great job!

  • Thanks a lot :)

  • Yes LM at her best! fuckin' brillant!!

  • Loreena Mckennitt at her best.

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