Skyforger - Zviegtin' zviedza kara zirgi

[KreiviKuroba]

Why thet said 'Suomen'? it's finland word :-d

[lilithpaga]

Simples... Muito bom! *-*

[Lachausis]

@jaaniits24 Pēctam, kad Vikingi pasiroja viņu zemē. Tagadne pierāda, ka latvieši ir kūtri uz pirmajām asinīm.

[eljadro]

Latvia and it´s people are great and I admire them! Respect from slavic brother.

[EndureTemptation]

Some might confuse Latvians with wikings. Please don't, because we ain't and never were. We were peaceful folk who wouldn't fight for anything that ain't ours (like wikings basically did). so this is different war song.

This song for me personaly associates with that feeling when one grabs soil under his feet, which is his father soil. And at that moment he is sure in his heart what for he would give his life. Which is basically what this song is about ("take my head, spare fathers land"). Peace

[lamethodekoweit1]

it's folk music, and baltic music shares with many similarities with other european songs (ie : celtic, germanic, slavic etc. songs).

[TheHellknight12]

European metal sounds good 

[mynameisjonas45]

I don't understand. What's with the chanting vocals and folk instruments? Is there like an ideology to this? What's with the flute? is this metal? I'm confused.

[40bcoots]

@mynameisjonas45 .. this is closer to 'folk music' .. well as close as Skyforger get. Certainly not 'metal'.' Idealogy'. not the term I would have used..but ' traditional', based upon folklore. This is the only way I can handle Skyforger. The 'metal' has me running for the off-switch.

[Desravagis]

Aciu uz daina broliai Latviai :) Thanks for the song Latvian brothers

[40bcoots]

It surprises me that Skyforger does these folksongs, which are very interesting and good, then reproduces them in 'heavy metal' format. I'm not into grundge heavy metal ... but obviously a lot of people are, judging by the concert audiences.

Latvian, Perth Western Australia

[angelalovemarcus]

@40bcoots don't you like this? I reconn skyforger should do 'land down under'.

[40bcoots]

@angelalovemarcus ... I do not like grunge heavy metal. As for "Land Down Under" hahaha ... well, it wouldn't mean the same to Europeans as it does to australians... not even close. This is Oz's second national anthem. I was in LA about to go for a job interview when Oz was won the America Cup 1982 and this song was played incessantly. I have the CD .. still love the song. But to convert it grundge .. doesn't matter by whom ... no thanks. ilgi might make something decent out of it?

[angelalovemarcus]

@40bcoots just me being perverse. Actually I am waiting for skyforger and rammestein to do my all time favourite '99 luft balloons'.

Don't get me started on the American cup win in 1982, those yachtie types stole our boxing kangaroo!!!!!

[40bcoots]

@angelalovemarcus  ... stole ... nah ... just borrowed. It reappears at just about every OZ international big sports event / village. Anyway, the job interview .. I didn't get it .. the yanks were bad losers. It amazes me how much Latvian songs, dances, opera, films etc there is on youtube. Wonderful.

And thanks UKinLatvia, for the english translation.

[angelalovemarcus]

@40bcoots isn't it great. my grand ma checks out the modern pics of Riga;

'bloody soviet, they flooded Dole, go away for fifty years and that happens'

some of my best friends are yanks...... they are ok - for septics- ha!



[40bcoots]

@angelalovemarcus ...I don't understand the middle paragraph.

[40bcoots]

@angelalovemarcus ...PS I had hair that long when I was 19, and did I cop shit from all and sundry for it. Then a bout 2 years later it was common place.Now it's thinning out. Oh well ... the price for getting old.

[angelalovemarcus]

@40bcoots I didn't think Latvian men went bald?  Hubby has big thick lusty blond hair I like to run my fingers though. Off course his blond comes out of a bottle.

[UKinLatvia]

Neighing neighed the war horses

Waiting for the warriors

Warriors sharpening their swords on stone

Once the swords were sharp, they put them crosswise and swore:

Better take my head rather than my homeland.

And that I tell you, strangers, do not come to this land - a golden nightingale is singing on the tip of my sword.

Sorry I cannot do the lyrics as the Latvian always has stress on the first syllable, making it easy to rhyme in a certain way (trochaic).

[wiker666]

@UKinLatvia thx a lot i'll put it in the description.

[sturmkrieger1]

Stormwarrior thanks for this Amasing Movie!

[edakucera]

For me the best song of paganmetal!!!

[JohnDefy]

@edakucera pagan metal??? give me a break!!! LOLOLOL

[orclv]

i love the par of

im teling you foreners

dont come in to my land

i rather give my head

then my fathetlend ^^

p.s. is this the poem that latvian pagans did sing while fighting the cristian crusaders ?

or am i mistaken ?

[wiker666]

Probably, but I'm not sure. I know that Peter said it was an ancient song that the latvian warriors were singing.

[edakucera]

yes,you are right,it is about war of all christians

[Skavenhoden]

jo is richtig geil, bei einigen Stellen verstehe ich irgendwie immer das Word scheiße ^^

[orclv]

nich scheiße  aber "šaj zemē" was bedeutet "in theses land"

[delappen]

jo find ich och

[Wintervollmond]

Das ist wirklich richtig gut!!!

[siticuga]

Labais

[guitarblasterx]

not is the album kauja pie saules

[wiker666]

Yeah it's on this album too. But it's another version of this song.

[DzimteneiHH]

Zviegtin` zviedza kara zirgi Karavīrus gaidīdami ; Karavīri zobentiņus Uz akmeņa tecināj` . Iztrinuši zobentiņus Krustām lika zvērēdami : Labāk manu galvu ņēma , Nekā manu tēvuzemi ! Es jums saku , sveši ļaudis : Šai zemēi nenāciet - Dzied man zelta lakstīgala Zobentiņa galiņā !

[edakucera]

Can you translate to english?

[DzimteneiHH]

HAil "Debesu Kalējs"

[wenddiver]

Excellent!!! Do they have an album? I spent the whole day lifting weights to it. Made me want to go out and feed my axe.

[wiker666]

Yeah they have many albums. This song is from the album "Zobena Dziesma".

[wenddiver]

I went to their link to CD Baby and ordered one of their albums, but none of the others were listed. Any idea were they could be ordered on the internet?

[wiker666]

I don't know, check out the links on their web site in the section "Merchandise".

[Djavidus]

You can download the album with Azureus Vuze - just type in Skyforger.

[SolntsaSvet]

Excellent!

[starush777]

Молодцы!

[importantpig]

es jums saku svesi laudis

sai zeme nenaciet

[Lachausis]

Šai zemē i nenāciet!

[horseylove2009]

doooh...from Latvia!!!

[Karens1980]

这是一个拉托维亚古的人民音乐!

[wiker666]

They are from the Latvia.

[Karens1980]

真的好听 !

[wiker666]

Yeah they are very good.