There is a stavkirke in Wisconsin USA, actually- it was built in Norway for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago and ended up near Blue Mounds [I live a few miles from it]- go to Wikipedia and search Little Norway Wisconsin.
@Nicko93 Yea i know, its Vang Stavkirke, used to be in Vang, Valdres in Norway, Friedrich Vilhelm lV of Prussia bought it from the Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl, which in turn had bought the church to save it from being destructed.
@Peppepoppldoppl Even though the Orkneys are part of Scotland, in the 13th century they were inhabited by mostly Norse/Celt hybrid peoples, in the same respect that the Faroese islands are Scandinavian but are essentially part of the northern Scottish island chain
@Peppepoppldoppl it has all the wrong sounds to be traditionally Scottish, plus the language is not old gaelige. The shetland isles were part of a wedding dowry to the Scots from Norway, so i say it crossed over to the Shetland isles around then..
@aatishoo No, because it is Latin. And Latin was and is still the language of the church. I said that the inhabitants of the Orkney and Shetland isles definitely do not have Norse ancestry. They may have done so hundreds of years ago, but that blood is already spent. What do you mean? Wrong sounds? What should it sound like to be "traditionally" Scottish? Bagpipes perhaps?
This is probably how the Norse temples looked like, through-out Scandinavia, Iceland etc. They were burned down during the christianization, but this one and others survived. Some converted men also built churches in Norse style or renovated old temples I'm quite sure of. They were usually shunned upon by outlander christians, and new types of churches were built. The normal type of protestantic churches that is.
Norwegian builders and architects should keep building in the Ways of the Old in order to preserve the know how of the craft and ALL European Nations at that!!! ALL those structures have some thing organic about them.
I imagine myself sipping on some meade in a great, silent hall full of armored warriors, as the bards present this enchanting melody to us, entranced by their spell...
@VIdkun89 is this a joke or are you just being an idiot on purpose? "time for the Norse culture to lead the world", you say. What exactly do you mean? Take over the world? That we return to viking culture?
You Norwegians need to reanimate Harald Hardrade...Or Thorvin Raven Feeder, they were both librals... Libral about handing out deserved beatings to invaders on there land!!
I'm amused by all these anti church and anti Muslim pro pagan banter in the comments when this song is not in Norwegian but in Latin and has nothing to do with Norway other than being a catholic song written likely by a monk of Norwegian ancestry, though he could easily have been a scot. Not to mention the men of the Orkneys in the 13th century were 200 years removed from the last true vikings, who happened to be Christian as well. People on the Internet are so silly.
@leeho98 What if one has a Scandinavian background? I would consider going to Scandinavia a return to home... and I would very much wish to live in my homeland. I love the culture so much that I almost wish I was born in Jutland during the Viking Age.
@Vikingskog Norway is a country worth fighting for!! The 99th batallion was ready to help free Norway fron the Nazies durring WW2 and their spirit still lives in Minnesota. My question is: do the Immigrants want to become Norwegian or do they want to keep all their beliefs, traditions and expect Norwegians to accept their way of life?
long live Norway from USA :) Norway, Denmark, and Sweden are the land of my forfathers. and i'm proud to be able to say it. No matter what happens, i will support and stand behind Norway as if it were my own country and all of Scandinavia. Bless you all. :)
was the pagan churches burned down in the time of olaf tryggvason and olaf der heilige? does the people in the province dont blocked the soldiers of tryggvason and attack his capital city???
When cultures meet they either blend into one, weakening both cultures and watering it out, or the strongest one starts to influence the other, eventually the weakest one is pretty much gone.
We see that today in several European countries with the segration of the islamic immigrants. They are the dominant ones, so their culture expands, ours weakens because nobody cares about it anymore except a few people like me. It kills diversity globally.
@bingzaniGercel I can't speak for Norway, but in sweden the temples were replaced with churches on the spot... taking over the 'holy' places so to speak. As a consequence, and quite amusingly, many churches dotted around the country carries the name of old pagan deities. Unfortunately for us, the early swedish stave churches soon got replaced with stone churches so we don't have any left. I'm happy some has survived in Norway to show how advanced and artful the pagan architecture was.
@freddyXDyeah No thanks. The churchs are a small matter, sadly stone doesnt burn very well, so the idiots end up only burning the oldest wooden churchs, which is the only norse arcitecture we have.
The people who burn these churchs are just cowards and ignorant fools. If they actually cared so much about religion and Norway, then they would be burning the mosques, because that is where the danger lies.
Black metal artists are also cowards when it comes to this, never touches the subject.
God is. You know it if you have reason. You know it also even more if you have Catholic faith. You will be happy, I suppose, to say that you don't have Catholic faith and unfortunately it is true. However, you will not be happy to know that you don't have reason also. You only think you have reason and how proud you are that you have it. It is your mistake.If you would have reason you would be happy to use your reason to believe God and to know that reality is as Catholic faith says.No abortion
there used to be an awesome orkney/shetland song on youtube but i can't find it anymore. it was the hildina ballad sung by a chick with an awesome voice accompanied by a lyre, i think. even the picture was cool.. really bleak, but way cool. anyone know where to find it?
@Nannestadboy Det er en kirkelig sang, så den er sunget på latin. Derfor høres den ikke norsk ut. Men den er den eldtse sangen som eksisterer som er laget av nordmenn.
@GoingDownFaster Not exactly, but the decoration and building-style was probably somewhat the same. All pagan temples was burned down by the christians so we dont really know for sure.
@Vikingskog Lets be realistic. The vikings at the time didnt have so much resources and money as the catholic church so its likely it was not grand building. More likely similar to traditional viking structures of stone and wood. But then again the viking tradition was not to build great wonders, but to fight and go to war =)
@bluewing26 The special buildings were still quite impressive. And resources.. you know how many trees it took to make 1 viking dragonship? A small entire forest.
And 5500 nails, and they were often decorated with impressive woodcarvings. The richest men even had a golden head in the front.
Do not think them simple just because they had less money then the southerners who baked their ass in the sun all day.
The vikings were also years ahead when it came to blacksmithing.
@GoingDownFaster I think they mainly celebrated and honored their gods outside, if weather allows. Maybe at winter just at the biggest hall of the village.
Pinched this from my friend who has a great interest in Medieval Music. Very unusual looking Chuch almost an Oriental influence there, partcularily Malaysian. Great Post.
@Vikingskog I guess the vikings travelled more than many others and learned a lot about building tecniques wherever they wandered and maybe this is a result of it..
:) I really like the church, because it looks like if it was from Halloween influence. tehe Norway beauty is so angelic. tehe Says hello from Puerto Rico. :)
The Catholics used it as a political control device, but not the non-denominationals.
you Don't know that the Slavs or Norse didn't use it for political reasons, we don't even hardly have anything left from the Pagan Slavs, as all was burned and forgotten when a Slavic king converted religions.
In Hel you wade through streams of venom and get bitten by snakes, and sleep on straw beds.
Hell is a real place, it's not influenced by the climate of the region, I believe that Hell doesn't exist yet, that it will be formed after the Earth is destroyed, what people describe now is the holding cell where people are tormented by Demons in the center of the Earth, it's hot because of the molten core, in Hell the Demons will suffer and burn even more than the humans, because they are tougher.
If you could send me pictures of these "tormented" people in the molten core of the Earth, then I might actually take you seriously. Otherwise, it's just as true for me to tell you that there are teapots encircling our sun and sheep drinking Cola underwater because I was told so in a very non-surrealistic dream.
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, you can't see air can you? but it must exist or you wouldn't be breathing right now.
Nothing is impossible, only improbable.
People have seen visions of this place, they have journeyed in the spirit down into the Earth to that place, their spirit left their body and everyone thought they were dead, but their spirits returned and they lived to tell the story...
Can't see air now, can't we? Explain to me why the sky is blue during the day. We can see air by the photons it emits, but it is practically impossible if the density of it is too small or if we don't have a big amount of it. However, we can see it. And I wouldn't trust what the human brain experiences as it gives more "false" informations than "true" ones - if it sends true information at all.
The reason why the sky has a blue colour is due to gas molecules (mainly oxygen and nitrogen) that get hit by sunlight, making them irradiate the blue light all around the atmosphere. It is the gases (air) that make the sky blue, not the moisture (moisture is practically just vaporised water, making it a gas as well). So there you have it. We can see air (gases).
And the brain can misinterpret a lot of information. Like, is metal cold? It must be because it 'feels' cold when one touches it.
The Norse pagan religion of Asatru was based on the same system as the Christian one, they had two heaven like realms and one Hell, one Heaven for all who die in battle called "Valhalla", and one Heaven for all those who were good people on Earth called "nithavellir", and one place of eternal torture for all bad people called Hel, the Christan system gets its name for Hell from Asatru, in Hebrew the word is "Sheol". the Celts and Egyptians too had Heavens, one called "other-world".
The Åsatru Hel was a lot nicer then the Christian hell. In Hel you did not get punished or turtored for any "sins". And Hel was cold and covered in mist, while the christian hell is hot(which clearly proves that the idea of the christian Hell comes from warm countries in the middleeast area. As heat was not a problem for us in the west).
actually this is very inaccurate. The Bible says nothing about satan punishing people in hell, or about it being hot. and the hot tradition did not originate in the east, but rather in the west, in Italy. The modern idea of hell is traced to the Italian writer Dante's book Inferno. In the bible, hell (or Hades, since the NT was written in Greek, the word hell is never used in the original, but is a purely english adaptation) is actually a place prepared for the punisment of Satan.
Doesnt matter what the bible says specifically, this was the idea of hell in west europe at the time, long before Dantes inferno.
People say the bible says this and that, and also many proclaim that you cant kill a person and still be christian. Well, say that too the million warriors who killed for christianity and in gods name. Its not what a specific book says that is the main thing, the main thing is how it affects peoples minds and how they read the book. From history we see the true face.
I see you are one of those american christian lemmings, so i will not waste time on you.
Thankfully we have very few of you in Scandinavia. Christianity thrives in america because of ur bad education system, very big diffrences in income and education from person to person, aswell as you dont have any culture, and nothing worth calling a identity anymore.
I guess most of you need a invisible friend to hold hands with, because of everything else you lack. Christianity killed cultures,may it rot.
Exactly. Christianity proclaims to be a religion of peace and compassion whilst some of its believers have killed, are killing and will kill any culture that they do not respect. It is a cuckoo's offspring, sucking up every last bit of strength and free will from people who, in the first place, had their own culture, but which was killed and buried during the last two thousand years. But that bird's gonna fly out of its borrowed nest someday, and when it does, I hope someone will shoot it.
It isn't called Hel, but Helheim. Hel is the goddess of Death, not a location in Norse mythology. "Valhalla" is as you say the "Hall of the Fallen". However, Niðavellir isn't a realm of the dead. It is something completely different. It is the realm of the dwarves. People, whether good or bad, went to Helheim if they didn't die in a glorious battle or died from diseases or old age. It is not based on the same interpretion of the afterlife as Christianity at all, as you state.
Really? every book and place I've seen the name it always has said "Hel", do you have sources for this that I can look into?
Again, every book and place I've seen this word it has had two meanings, one as the realm of dwarves, and two as the house of the dead in Niflheim where good people go, I could very well be wrong though, could you give me sources so I double check this new information?, thanks :)
I suppose there are many names for Helheim, and Hel is perhaps among them. I see they use it on the English page on Wikipedia, but to distinct the realm from the goddess herself, adding the "-heim" would be more correct if you ask me. On both the Swedish and the Norwegian (Nynorsk) page on Wikipedia, the realm is refered to as "Helheim".
I've never heard "Niðavellir" being the realm of the good dead in Niflheim. Even Baldr, indisputably the most good of the Æsir, went to Helheim.
If you look under "Etymology" on the English page of "Hel" on Wikipedia, it is even said: "The use of Hel in Norse words and phrases... (indicates) that the word Hel referred to a common place of the dead and, unlike English hell, did not imply any sense of damnation or punishment." Whether it is reliable or not, that is the interpretion of the Norse afterlife I've always had, even in classes about the Norse mythology at school.
Well yes of course, but if the dead are separated according to their deeds and the good go to Niðavellir and all the rest including all the sick go to Hel then you would see that it's not that different from the Christian view, in Hel everything miserable and people who do things considered unmoral by Norse standards are punished, Niðavellir is a grand castle of luxury where good people live, eat and are served by Dwarves.
It is called Helheim, but in Norway we say that "he went to Hel" You do not have to say Helheim. We all know that Hel lives in Helheim, so if you go to Hel you end up in Helheim;-) Helheim means Hel`s home.
thank you for having a viking site for the quarter Norwegian in me. I use to count in Norwegian as a child. very beautiful song. I am so proud to be norwegian. The other english scotch-irsih and Swede can laugh at my norse blood.
There were no churches in Norway in the viking age,the arrival of the christianity was the end of the viking age.
Just another great culture buried by the christianity insanity.
The artwork on the churches are from the viking culture,big difference.
U cant evolve a culture further when the basic elements people relied and belived on suddenly become banned and looked at a lover degree of living compared to a new powertool of an religion.
It just stops there and the old ways change and die.
wrong, there are several churchs in Norway that are from the viking age. The viking age lasted from year 800 to 1066. Christianity came first with Håkon den Gode, then Olav Tryggvasson and then christianized by Olav Haraldsson from 1015-1028. Church started getting raised in 1015, and the oldest stavechurch we have in Norway(in sogn) is from 1050. We used to have many more from that time but they were rebuilt and changed. Which you would know if you have read the sagas :).
though, i agree that christianity, just like islam, is a bad religion. the people who belive in these religions are nothing but slaves to their god, blind and ignorant. also guilty of the biggest man slaughters and most wars in human history.
I have not read the sagas but ive listen to a few historical professors lecture about the viking age.
And how do we know the sagas wasnt investigated by christians after traces of the truth about christianity brutality.
Everywere else in the world u find traces after old pagan temples just beeing converted into christian churchs,like buildings with a cross on the top with a ring around it,this is not a christian symbol but an old pagan one..
vi har jo ruiner og funn etter slike kirker overalt,
sier seg selv at når Norge ble kristnet i 1015 så fantes det også kirker i 1015. Kirker er og var det mest nødvendige for kirstendommen.
Og noen få av kirkene fra vikingtiden står fortsatt i dag. Resten ble revet eller ombygd, nesten alle kirker ble ombygd rundt år 1700 med unntak av stavkirkene.
Og mange kirker står der tidligere Hov(dvs. templer) står før. Navn som 'Torshov', 'Hovkirke' osv vitner tydelig om det.
I mange tilfeller så har de til og med brukt samme treematerialer som hovet var bygd av, og da brukte det til å bygge opp kirken etter hovet var ødelagt.
Et tilfelle vi har på vestlandet så er det til og med en plank hvor det er en runeinskripsjon hvor det står at "dette hus er tilegnet de høye æser", de brukte den planken når de bygde opp kirken over hovet.
Men om det var noe politisk i det eller om det bare var for å være økonomisk vet vi ikke, antagelig litt av begge deler.
Den er fra Gamle Gjevedal Kirke, den ble vist revet på 1800tallet.
Runene var fra 700tallet, og lyder slik:
"hedensk helligdom"
og så:
"En til Æsene viet helligdom er denne bygning".
Et avtrykk av inskripsjonen finnes i Nasjonalmuseets Biblioteket i København(danskene stjelte med seg mye slikt av historisk verdie i unionstiden, fra både oss og Island).
Well as it was explained to me. The Stav Churches are very close to what the old heathen temples may have been like, but people would have sat in a semi-circle and you would have 3 statues: Freyr-Odin-Thor like at Uppsala where the Christian altars are now. And there was probably a stone slab or something where the góði (priest) spilled blood on from sacrificed animals in front of that.
They dont know exactly how Hov's(norse temples) looked like, they only know the form of them and the base size, not how tall they were.
From archeology findings they vary a bit, some smaller then others.
Some Hov's were assigned to several gods, while some others were just for one.
We still have several places in Norway called "Freyshov" "Torshov" etc. which clearly means there was a hov for that god there. They have one or several wooden statues, the offering was put infront of it usually.
Well that's all true. There was a youtube video up, but I can no longer find it. This guy went up into an "attic" in the roof of this one Stav church and he showed actual wooden carvings of the gods in the wooden posts holding up the roof.
The youtube video was titled, "Hegge Stav Church." That's the one with the wooden posts that have carvings of the gods inside the roof, but it says that the video was removed.
so one man that believes in god or another deity whom's worshippers have commited crimes of war or other crimes of so called religious convictions, are guilty? Then let it be known that all of mankind is guilty, as we all follow previously like convictions. For instance, all americans are guilty because their predecessors killed and starved native americans, or went to wars over political gains. The list goes on and on. Convictions dont make you guilty. Acts make you guilty.
Not to mention that both religions destroyed thousands of traditions and several cultures, its only 150years ago a women in my family was going to get burned as a witch(but was saved).
Christianity and islam are far outdated religions, and unable to adapt because of the bible and the quoran. its not a free religion, if one doesnt follow all the rules ur pretty much going to hell like the rest of us.
Religions like these is nothing but a plague, all religions that have only one,allmighy god, and a "holy text" are very dangerous because it manipulates the mind so easily, especially the uneducated. And the leaders of these religions holds the key to heaven, which is what fuels fanatics so easily and which is what have caused many of the wars we have seen.
Doesnt matter what "modern-christians" or "modern muslims" say today, their religion is red full of blood which will not wash off.
the problem is it was not the religion that caused the people to kill it was their misinterpretation. they thought that God wanted us to "convert" people by any meens when really God wanted us to mearly tell people about him and from there let him take over. i am a Christian by the way. A religion does not cause acts a person does.
christians are blood made "saints" and theres nothing else to it and thier all decieved into thinking their religion is their own when truly it is simply a stolen mish mash of ideas from previous cultures and if you dont believe me than start actually reading history books
First of all i'm a history buff so i do read history books. I do however think you should read the Bible and see that Christianity is not a mish mash of all other religions. As well we are not blood made "saints" as you put it. As well you might want to look a little closer at the crusades it was not only "christians" who were in it a lot of people went just to get money who were not "christians".
well actually ive read the bible several times seeing as i was raised christian, if your a history buff than you would know that christianitys spread only happened through the slaughtering of people who wouldnt join. I never mentioned the crusades thats a whole different story. Christmas is pagan as is easterhalloweenthanksgiving and every other holiday in the spirit of "christ" and it just so happens that theres another religion from persia that came before christianity that is exactly the same
Love lies at the foundation of Christianity. If you see people who call themselves Christians committing crimes than they aren't what they say they are. Do you know the expression: 'a wolf in a sheep's skin'? You can't blame the religion itself for what people make out of it. I admit, what christianity looks today is its very opposite. But its principles are good. Love your neighbour like yourself, love even your enemy! What do you think of it?
Look at history, what the power of christianity in men has done, aswell as islam.
What the book says or how you read it is pointless, its the effect it has on the human mind and their deeds through history that shows how much its worth.
Enough millions of people have died,being tortured, cutted down limb from limb, blinded, burned alive, robbed in christianity and islams name that no more proof is necessary.
The principles do not work, and they are unecessary.
Nobilus Humilis from the magnus hymn manuscript, one of the oldest preserved nordic songs (even though it's a christian song), and a beautiful rendition! I was actually just searching yesterday for an authentic sounding version, amazingly you put this up the next day! I'm glad somebody is keeping this alive.
There is a stavkirke in Wisconsin USA, actually- it was built in Norway for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago and ended up near Blue Mounds [I live a few miles from it]- go to Wikipedia and search Little Norway Wisconsin.
Pixiel711 1 week ago
HA I worked at that church! And I'm likely to work there again :)
Also there's another Stavekirke in Poland.
Nicko93 2 weeks ago
@Nicko93 Yea i know, its Vang Stavkirke, used to be in Vang, Valdres in Norway, Friedrich Vilhelm lV of Prussia bought it from the Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl, which in turn had bought the church to save it from being destructed.
Vikingskog 2 weeks ago
@Vikingskog Yeah I wasn't sure of the whole story. Thanks for reminding me, I'll be sure to put it to good use this summer ^^
Nicko93 2 weeks ago
This song is most likely of Scottish origin, not Norwegian.
Peppepoppldoppl 3 weeks ago
@Peppepoppldoppl And why is that?
Vikingskog 3 weeks ago
@Peppepoppldoppl Even though the Orkneys are part of Scotland, in the 13th century they were inhabited by mostly Norse/Celt hybrid peoples, in the same respect that the Faroese islands are Scandinavian but are essentially part of the northern Scottish island chain
GoldenAxeVox666 1 week ago
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@GoldenAxeVox666 They were indeed mixed, but more so with Celtic influence than Norse.
I would also like to add that you are an American, and therefore has no business looking up videos concerning the Orkneys or debate about it.
Peppepoppldoppl 1 week ago
@Peppepoppldoppl it has all the wrong sounds to be traditionally Scottish, plus the language is not old gaelige. The shetland isles were part of a wedding dowry to the Scots from Norway, so i say it crossed over to the Shetland isles around then..
aatishoo 6 days ago
@aatishoo No, because it is Latin. And Latin was and is still the language of the church. I said that the inhabitants of the Orkney and Shetland isles definitely do not have Norse ancestry. They may have done so hundreds of years ago, but that blood is already spent. What do you mean? Wrong sounds? What should it sound like to be "traditionally" Scottish? Bagpipes perhaps?
Peppepoppldoppl 5 days ago
@aatishoo Norway is not the only Norse country.
Peppepoppldoppl 5 days ago
This is probably how the Norse temples looked like, through-out Scandinavia, Iceland etc. They were burned down during the christianization, but this one and others survived. Some converted men also built churches in Norse style or renovated old temples I'm quite sure of. They were usually shunned upon by outlander christians, and new types of churches were built. The normal type of protestantic churches that is.
Skraelingful 1 month ago
Norwegian builders and architects should keep building in the Ways of the Old in order to preserve the know how of the craft and ALL European Nations at that!!! ALL those structures have some thing organic about them.
vortex162 1 month ago 2
Great Viking Power !
ajsberak 2 months ago
There's just one church like this one left in Sweden today.. the rest of them were burned down by the Christians.
Jelubaful 2 months ago
@Jelubaful eeeh.. Churches burnt down by the Christians?
95vg95 2 months ago
Yes, they didn't like the pagan looking architecture.
Jelubaful 2 months ago
What a beautiful building, and beautiful music! The things at the tip of the roof look rather like the bow ornament of the viking ships.
crazychiliquaker1959 2 months ago
I imagine myself sipping on some meade in a great, silent hall full of armored warriors, as the bards present this enchanting melody to us, entranced by their spell...
alphatotheomega7 2 months ago
@alphatotheomega7 Yeah, it's catholic hymn to saint magnus in norwegian XD
LumiKuuro 2 months ago
@LumiKuuro It is sung in Latin not Norwegian though.
95vg95 2 months ago
beautiful...
Raffaella334 4 months ago
Esto es musica, aprendan wachiturris o como se llamen!!!!
amasullo 4 months ago
looks like a buddhist temple
ThomasRowsell 5 months ago
This style looks similar to old Russian churches. Wood and pointy roofs.
CaptainMelons 5 months ago
@VIdkun89 is this a joke or are you just being an idiot on purpose? "time for the Norse culture to lead the world", you say. What exactly do you mean? Take over the world? That we return to viking culture?
EscargoTouChaud 6 months ago
You Norwegians need to reanimate Harald Hardrade...Or Thorvin Raven Feeder, they were both librals... Libral about handing out deserved beatings to invaders on there land!!
TheDoogee 6 months ago
@Kyzylturq Well, don't ever move to Norway, people in Scandinavia are tired of immigrants.
leeho98 6 months ago
I'm amused by all these anti church and anti Muslim pro pagan banter in the comments when this song is not in Norwegian but in Latin and has nothing to do with Norway other than being a catholic song written likely by a monk of Norwegian ancestry, though he could easily have been a scot. Not to mention the men of the Orkneys in the 13th century were 200 years removed from the last true vikings, who happened to be Christian as well. People on the Internet are so silly.
Love to you level headed
iceland2121 6 months ago 4
Are Americans welcome in Norway?
AjfromDamons 6 months ago
@AjfromDamons No. Immigrants are annoying.
leeho98 6 months ago
@leeho98 What if one has a Scandinavian background? I would consider going to Scandinavia a return to home... and I would very much wish to live in my homeland. I love the culture so much that I almost wish I was born in Jutland during the Viking Age.
EdikShepherd 5 months ago
@Vikingskog May you be protected by God, Odin and Thor and Freja. Ik hailsa allaim!(gothic). I greet all!
Greetings from Sweden
alarik36 6 months ago
@Vikingskog Norway is a country worth fighting for!! The 99th batallion was ready to help free Norway fron the Nazies durring WW2 and their spirit still lives in Minnesota. My question is: do the Immigrants want to become Norwegian or do they want to keep all their beliefs, traditions and expect Norwegians to accept their way of life?
charlieChanning 6 months ago
long live Norway from USA :) Norway, Denmark, and Sweden are the land of my forfathers. and i'm proud to be able to say it. No matter what happens, i will support and stand behind Norway as if it were my own country and all of Scandinavia. Bless you all. :)
Krassenator 7 months ago
was the pagan churches burned down in the time of olaf tryggvason and olaf der heilige? does the people in the province dont blocked the soldiers of tryggvason and attack his capital city???
bingzaniGercel 8 months ago
@bingzaniGercel The pagan temples was burned down in King Olav Tryggvasson and King Olav Haraldsson den Hellige's time yes.
The king esembled his army and traveled around in Norway and forced-converted the people and burned the temples.
When they tried to resist he battled them or fled if he was outnumbered.
Sometimes the converts went back to paganism, then the king came again and punished them.
His army was too big so the people couldnt resist.
Vikingskog 8 months ago
@Vikingskog
På Washington Island, Wisconsin USA er det en Stavkirke. Det er ganske deilig.
allesax 2 months ago
@Vikingskog Where can I find the story you are talking about? How was this king converted?
Ceneviva 1 month ago
@Vikingskog it makes me sad when people are converted under pressure. Happens all the time in history but i just think diversity is more interesting.
Makes me want to watch Valhalla Rising again......
OneManMilitia69 1 month ago 2
@OneManMilitia69 Diversity..
When cultures meet they either blend into one, weakening both cultures and watering it out, or the strongest one starts to influence the other, eventually the weakest one is pretty much gone.
We see that today in several European countries with the segration of the islamic immigrants. They are the dominant ones, so their culture expands, ours weakens because nobody cares about it anymore except a few people like me. It kills diversity globally.
Vikingskog 1 month ago 3
Are there latin words in this dialect like in the old briton ?
DaculDatDracu 1 month ago
@bingzaniGercel I can't speak for Norway, but in sweden the temples were replaced with churches on the spot... taking over the 'holy' places so to speak. As a consequence, and quite amusingly, many churches dotted around the country carries the name of old pagan deities. Unfortunately for us, the early swedish stave churches soon got replaced with stone churches so we don't have any left. I'm happy some has survived in Norway to show how advanced and artful the pagan architecture was.
arscill1 3 months ago
@bingzaniGercel in some way yes, but the folklore and folklore songs survived and old buildings like this one survived.
and the building style continued, later in "dragestil"
we have been very isolated, and people tend to focus too much on mythology and not culture folklore and music.
ulvebonden 2 months ago
can you list some Norvegian folk music artists but not metal I want to learn real traditional artists...
ergunayral91 8 months ago
@freddyXDyeah No thanks. The churchs are a small matter, sadly stone doesnt burn very well, so the idiots end up only burning the oldest wooden churchs, which is the only norse arcitecture we have.
The people who burn these churchs are just cowards and ignorant fools. If they actually cared so much about religion and Norway, then they would be burning the mosques, because that is where the danger lies.
Black metal artists are also cowards when it comes to this, never touches the subject.
Vikingskog 9 months ago
Those anyone have any real viking/celtic songs that they can post online? Send me a link if you
ThisReallySuckz 11 months ago
hi i'm From orkney and would be grateFul For translation
rosswatt1979 1 year ago
Nobilis, humilis,
Magne martyr stabilis,
Habilis, utilis,
comes venerabilis
et tutor laudabilis,
tuos subditos serva carnis
fragilis mole positos.
sdr083 1 year ago
for such a badass culture the vikings were destroyed ina crappy way. becuming christians
TheGeneralBurn 1 year ago 3
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akwinata1 1 year ago
there used to be an awesome orkney/shetland song on youtube but i can't find it anymore. it was the hildina ballad sung by a chick with an awesome voice accompanied by a lyre, i think. even the picture was cool.. really bleak, but way cool. anyone know where to find it?
AromaticDogwood 1 year ago
like Porfinnr, I would like to know the lyrics, if someone would be so kind as to post them. This is a very lovely piece.
kierahulet 1 year ago
Hørtes ikke veldig norrøn norsk ut etter mine ører.
Nannestadboy 1 year ago 3
@Nannestadboy Det er en kirkelig sang, så den er sunget på latin. Derfor høres den ikke norsk ut. Men den er den eldtse sangen som eksisterer som er laget av nordmenn.
Vikingskog 1 year ago 8
@Vikingskog ...kristen?...ka gjer eg her?!
BrutalMetalViking 1 year ago
@Vikingskog den er ikke laget av nordmen. den er laget av gregorianske monker i europa.
MrOlekul 2 months ago
did norse pagan temples look like this church?
GoingDownFaster 1 year ago
@GoingDownFaster Not exactly, but the decoration and building-style was probably somewhat the same. All pagan temples was burned down by the christians so we dont really know for sure.
Vikingskog 1 year ago 19
@Vikingskog Lets be realistic. The vikings at the time didnt have so much resources and money as the catholic church so its likely it was not grand building. More likely similar to traditional viking structures of stone and wood. But then again the viking tradition was not to build great wonders, but to fight and go to war =)
bluewing26 1 year ago
@bluewing26 The special buildings were still quite impressive. And resources.. you know how many trees it took to make 1 viking dragonship? A small entire forest.
And 5500 nails, and they were often decorated with impressive woodcarvings. The richest men even had a golden head in the front.
Do not think them simple just because they had less money then the southerners who baked their ass in the sun all day.
The vikings were also years ahead when it came to blacksmithing.
Vikingskog 1 year ago 17
@Vikingskog all im saying is that it probably was no colloseums or pyramids... didnt mean to piss anyone off...
bluewing26 1 year ago
@Vikingskog Norwegians, please refrain from burning churches built before the 1500s. They are an important part of the worlds architectural heritage.
Besides, there are plenty of modern, insignificant churches to pick from.
Thesortvokter 9 months ago
@GoingDownFaster I think they mainly celebrated and honored their gods outside, if weather allows. Maybe at winter just at the biggest hall of the village.
Bajuwolf 1 year ago
was one of those church's burned down?
sgsfdgfsdfsdfsddf 1 year ago
so pure is the sounds and the pic, well to me this is how i feel, would be great to visit this fasinating land, is a long way from Aussie
nowucmenowu0000 1 year ago
@VikingsKog - Thanks for that information - Fascinating.
rockchick80s 1 year ago
Pinched this from my friend who has a great interest in Medieval Music. Very unusual looking Chuch almost an Oriental influence there, partcularily Malaysian. Great Post.
rockchick80s 1 year ago
The church is from year 1181, typical Norwegian norse style with woodcarving and treepiles on the roof etc.
Such churchs only exist in Norway, and there is deffinately no oriental influence even tho it may look similar hehe.
Vikingskog 1 year ago 3
@Vikingskog I guess the vikings travelled more than many others and learned a lot about building tecniques wherever they wandered and maybe this is a result of it..
Aasmundar 1 year ago
@rockchick80s The vikings like the orientals was obsessed with dragons, and what you see on the top of the roof is many dragonheads pointing up.
BJHBNE 1 year ago
it's an interesting twist on the monastic music most people are used to hearing--very cool! I wonder what instrument is being played?
Damis101 2 years ago
:) I really like the church, because it looks like if it was from Halloween influence. tehe Norway beauty is so angelic. tehe Says hello from Puerto Rico. :)
Katjablonder 2 years ago
oh oh oh the picture in the first .. wauw, what a house :D it looks like the one I imagned when I got the old nordse tales told :D
fiskerlord 2 years ago
Its a church..
Vikingskog 2 years ago 2
And it's an amazing church. If i decide to study abroad in norway next spring, i am deffinatly checking one of these out.
flyboysky 2 years ago 5
I know, it just very beautiful .. sry I said house..
if helps, im from Jutland
fiskerlord 2 years ago
Mmmm love it!!
legoboll 2 years ago 3
im from norway just to know :D
marksman4561 2 years ago
Så egentlig jeg vet ikke om det er norsk, synes det for meg mer som latin.
lvimer 2 years ago
Ja, den er på latin(nesten alle kristne sanger fra den tiden er det). Selvsagt er det ikke Norsk, de snakket gammel Norsk på den tiden, ikke 'Norsk'.
Men den er Norsk i den forstand at den er laget av Nordmenn.
Nobilis Humilis heter den på latin.
Vikingskog 2 years ago
okay
lvimer 2 years ago
Man, i've got to go to Norway sometime, i bet its AWESOME!!!!
TheHalomrmachinima 2 years ago 3
It is my friend!
soundworks11 2 years ago
Hymn to Saint Magnus the Earl of Orkney. It's time we get at least Shetland and Orkney back. What say we go on a rampage.
heimdallhinfrode 2 years ago
Også godt kjent som "Nobilis Humilis".
Smakfull versjon, men skulle mer enn gjerne hørt den med et par gyldene pikestemmer!
haerverk 2 years ago
The Catholics used it as a political control device, but not the non-denominationals.
you Don't know that the Slavs or Norse didn't use it for political reasons, we don't even hardly have anything left from the Pagan Slavs, as all was burned and forgotten when a Slavic king converted religions.
elvisheepofdoom 2 years ago
In Hel you wade through streams of venom and get bitten by snakes, and sleep on straw beds.
Hell is a real place, it's not influenced by the climate of the region, I believe that Hell doesn't exist yet, that it will be formed after the Earth is destroyed, what people describe now is the holding cell where people are tormented by Demons in the center of the Earth, it's hot because of the molten core, in Hell the Demons will suffer and burn even more than the humans, because they are tougher.
elvisheepofdoom 2 years ago
If you could send me pictures of these "tormented" people in the molten core of the Earth, then I might actually take you seriously. Otherwise, it's just as true for me to tell you that there are teapots encircling our sun and sheep drinking Cola underwater because I was told so in a very non-surrealistic dream.
flensdude 2 years ago
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, you can't see air can you? but it must exist or you wouldn't be breathing right now.
Nothing is impossible, only improbable.
People have seen visions of this place, they have journeyed in the spirit down into the Earth to that place, their spirit left their body and everyone thought they were dead, but their spirits returned and they lived to tell the story...
elvisheepofdoom 2 years ago
Can't see air now, can't we? Explain to me why the sky is blue during the day. We can see air by the photons it emits, but it is practically impossible if the density of it is too small or if we don't have a big amount of it. However, we can see it. And I wouldn't trust what the human brain experiences as it gives more "false" informations than "true" ones - if it sends true information at all.
flensdude 2 years ago
I always thought it was because light reflects off of the moisture IN the air, but whatever I guess.
I would, my experience has been that most of the information obtain by my brain is correct.
elvisheepofdoom 2 years ago
The reason why the sky has a blue colour is due to gas molecules (mainly oxygen and nitrogen) that get hit by sunlight, making them irradiate the blue light all around the atmosphere. It is the gases (air) that make the sky blue, not the moisture (moisture is practically just vaporised water, making it a gas as well). So there you have it. We can see air (gases).
And the brain can misinterpret a lot of information. Like, is metal cold? It must be because it 'feels' cold when one touches it.
flensdude 2 years ago
The Norse pagan religion of Asatru was based on the same system as the Christian one, they had two heaven like realms and one Hell, one Heaven for all who die in battle called "Valhalla", and one Heaven for all those who were good people on Earth called "nithavellir", and one place of eternal torture for all bad people called Hel, the Christan system gets its name for Hell from Asatru, in Hebrew the word is "Sheol". the Celts and Egyptians too had Heavens, one called "other-world".
elvisheepofdoom 2 years ago
The Åsatru Hel was a lot nicer then the Christian hell. In Hel you did not get punished or turtored for any "sins". And Hel was cold and covered in mist, while the christian hell is hot(which clearly proves that the idea of the christian Hell comes from warm countries in the middleeast area. As heat was not a problem for us in the west).
Vikingskog 2 years ago
actually this is very inaccurate. The Bible says nothing about satan punishing people in hell, or about it being hot. and the hot tradition did not originate in the east, but rather in the west, in Italy. The modern idea of hell is traced to the Italian writer Dante's book Inferno. In the bible, hell (or Hades, since the NT was written in Greek, the word hell is never used in the original, but is a purely english adaptation) is actually a place prepared for the punisment of Satan.
DLBBAM 2 years ago
Doesnt matter what the bible says specifically, this was the idea of hell in west europe at the time, long before Dantes inferno.
People say the bible says this and that, and also many proclaim that you cant kill a person and still be christian. Well, say that too the million warriors who killed for christianity and in gods name. Its not what a specific book says that is the main thing, the main thing is how it affects peoples minds and how they read the book. From history we see the true face.
Vikingskog 2 years ago
I see you are one of those american christian lemmings, so i will not waste time on you.
Thankfully we have very few of you in Scandinavia. Christianity thrives in america because of ur bad education system, very big diffrences in income and education from person to person, aswell as you dont have any culture, and nothing worth calling a identity anymore.
I guess most of you need a invisible friend to hold hands with, because of everything else you lack. Christianity killed cultures,may it rot.
Vikingskog 2 years ago
Exactly. Christianity proclaims to be a religion of peace and compassion whilst some of its believers have killed, are killing and will kill any culture that they do not respect. It is a cuckoo's offspring, sucking up every last bit of strength and free will from people who, in the first place, had their own culture, but which was killed and buried during the last two thousand years. But that bird's gonna fly out of its borrowed nest someday, and when it does, I hope someone will shoot it.
flensdude 2 years ago
Hail Asatru!
Hail, Odin!
xburnyoutoashesx 2 years ago
It isn't called Hel, but Helheim. Hel is the goddess of Death, not a location in Norse mythology. "Valhalla" is as you say the "Hall of the Fallen". However, Niðavellir isn't a realm of the dead. It is something completely different. It is the realm of the dwarves. People, whether good or bad, went to Helheim if they didn't die in a glorious battle or died from diseases or old age. It is not based on the same interpretion of the afterlife as Christianity at all, as you state.
flensdude 2 years ago 3
Really? every book and place I've seen the name it always has said "Hel", do you have sources for this that I can look into?
Again, every book and place I've seen this word it has had two meanings, one as the realm of dwarves, and two as the house of the dead in Niflheim where good people go, I could very well be wrong though, could you give me sources so I double check this new information?, thanks :)
elvisheepofdoom 2 years ago
I suppose there are many names for Helheim, and Hel is perhaps among them. I see they use it on the English page on Wikipedia, but to distinct the realm from the goddess herself, adding the "-heim" would be more correct if you ask me. On both the Swedish and the Norwegian (Nynorsk) page on Wikipedia, the realm is refered to as "Helheim".
I've never heard "Niðavellir" being the realm of the good dead in Niflheim. Even Baldr, indisputably the most good of the Æsir, went to Helheim.
flensdude 2 years ago
That makes sense.
Niðavellir is simply a dwelling within Niflheim on the outskirts of Hel, I suppose we will both have to do some more research...
elvisheepofdoom 2 years ago
If you look under "Etymology" on the English page of "Hel" on Wikipedia, it is even said: "The use of Hel in Norse words and phrases... (indicates) that the word Hel referred to a common place of the dead and, unlike English hell, did not imply any sense of damnation or punishment." Whether it is reliable or not, that is the interpretion of the Norse afterlife I've always had, even in classes about the Norse mythology at school.
flensdude 2 years ago
Well yes of course, but if the dead are separated according to their deeds and the good go to Niðavellir and all the rest including all the sick go to Hel then you would see that it's not that different from the Christian view, in Hel everything miserable and people who do things considered unmoral by Norse standards are punished, Niðavellir is a grand castle of luxury where good people live, eat and are served by Dwarves.
elvisheepofdoom 2 years ago
It is called Helheim, but in Norway we say that "he went to Hel" You do not have to say Helheim. We all know that Hel lives in Helheim, so if you go to Hel you end up in Helheim;-) Helheim means Hel`s home.
widugastir 2 years ago
thank you for having a viking site for the quarter Norwegian in me. I use to count in Norwegian as a child. very beautiful song. I am so proud to be norwegian. The other english scotch-irsih and Swede can laugh at my norse blood.
mermaidcandy 2 years ago
damn rights
afterlifedeath2all 2 years ago
this church looks like chinese temples.
christusfactusest 2 years ago
There were no churches in Norway in the viking age,the arrival of the christianity was the end of the viking age.
Just another great culture buried by the christianity insanity.
The artwork on the churches are from the viking culture,big difference.
U cant evolve a culture further when the basic elements people relied and belived on suddenly become banned and looked at a lover degree of living compared to a new powertool of an religion.
It just stops there and the old ways change and die.
HighCod 2 years ago
wrong, there are several churchs in Norway that are from the viking age. The viking age lasted from year 800 to 1066. Christianity came first with Håkon den Gode, then Olav Tryggvasson and then christianized by Olav Haraldsson from 1015-1028. Church started getting raised in 1015, and the oldest stavechurch we have in Norway(in sogn) is from 1050. We used to have many more from that time but they were rebuilt and changed. Which you would know if you have read the sagas :).
Vikingskog 2 years ago
though, i agree that christianity, just like islam, is a bad religion. the people who belive in these religions are nothing but slaves to their god, blind and ignorant. also guilty of the biggest man slaughters and most wars in human history.
Vikingskog 2 years ago
I have not read the sagas but ive listen to a few historical professors lecture about the viking age.
And how do we know the sagas wasnt investigated by christians after traces of the truth about christianity brutality.
Everywere else in the world u find traces after old pagan temples just beeing converted into christian churchs,like buildings with a cross on the top with a ring around it,this is not a christian symbol but an old pagan one..
The oldest churchs could just be converted ones..
HighCod 2 years ago
vi har jo ruiner og funn etter slike kirker overalt,
sier seg selv at når Norge ble kristnet i 1015 så fantes det også kirker i 1015. Kirker er og var det mest nødvendige for kirstendommen.
Og noen få av kirkene fra vikingtiden står fortsatt i dag. Resten ble revet eller ombygd, nesten alle kirker ble ombygd rundt år 1700 med unntak av stavkirkene.
Og mange kirker står der tidligere Hov(dvs. templer) står før. Navn som 'Torshov', 'Hovkirke' osv vitner tydelig om det.
Vikingskog 2 years ago
I mange tilfeller så har de til og med brukt samme treematerialer som hovet var bygd av, og da brukte det til å bygge opp kirken etter hovet var ødelagt.
Et tilfelle vi har på vestlandet så er det til og med en plank hvor det er en runeinskripsjon hvor det står at "dette hus er tilegnet de høye æser", de brukte den planken når de bygde opp kirken over hovet.
Men om det var noe politisk i det eller om det bare var for å være økonomisk vet vi ikke, antagelig litt av begge deler.
Vikingskog 2 years ago
Det virker å være en ganske klar symbolikk.. uten å si så mye mer om det, hva heter denne kirken på vestlandet? vil gjerne se inskripsjonen :)
AncestraX 2 years ago
Den er fra Gamle Gjevedal Kirke, den ble vist revet på 1800tallet.
Runene var fra 700tallet, og lyder slik:
"hedensk helligdom"
og så:
"En til Æsene viet helligdom er denne bygning".
Et avtrykk av inskripsjonen finnes i Nasjonalmuseets Biblioteket i København(danskene stjelte med seg mye slikt av historisk verdie i unionstiden, fra både oss og Island).
Vikingskog 2 years ago
Well as it was explained to me. The Stav Churches are very close to what the old heathen temples may have been like, but people would have sat in a semi-circle and you would have 3 statues: Freyr-Odin-Thor like at Uppsala where the Christian altars are now. And there was probably a stone slab or something where the góði (priest) spilled blood on from sacrificed animals in front of that.
rainer1980 2 years ago
They dont know exactly how Hov's(norse temples) looked like, they only know the form of them and the base size, not how tall they were.
From archeology findings they vary a bit, some smaller then others.
Some Hov's were assigned to several gods, while some others were just for one.
We still have several places in Norway called "Freyshov" "Torshov" etc. which clearly means there was a hov for that god there. They have one or several wooden statues, the offering was put infront of it usually.
Vikingskog 2 years ago
Well that's all true. There was a youtube video up, but I can no longer find it. This guy went up into an "attic" in the roof of this one Stav church and he showed actual wooden carvings of the gods in the wooden posts holding up the roof.
rainer1980 2 years ago
Not of the gods, for the gods. :)
I know of that runeinscription, its in a church in west Norway. The wood used in the church(which the runes are carved on) was from a Hov.
In several cases they used the same wood for Hov's as they did for the churchs which replaced them(probably because it saved them time).
Vikingskog 2 years ago
That makes sense.
rainer1980 2 years ago
The youtube video was titled, "Hegge Stav Church." That's the one with the wooden posts that have carvings of the gods inside the roof, but it says that the video was removed.
rainer1980 2 years ago
so one man that believes in god or another deity whom's worshippers have commited crimes of war or other crimes of so called religious convictions, are guilty? Then let it be known that all of mankind is guilty, as we all follow previously like convictions. For instance, all americans are guilty because their predecessors killed and starved native americans, or went to wars over political gains. The list goes on and on. Convictions dont make you guilty. Acts make you guilty.
DevSolution 2 years ago
you mistunderstood me, the religions are guilty. Christianity and islam has made nothing but war aslong as it has existed.
Now days there isnt much left of christianity in europe, and good is that.
But the people who follow these religions follows something that is guilty of some of the biggest manslaughters in history.
Regard less of if they support the previouse actions or not, they follow the religion that exist only because it killed its way up.
Vikingskog 2 years ago
Not to mention that both religions destroyed thousands of traditions and several cultures, its only 150years ago a women in my family was going to get burned as a witch(but was saved).
Christianity and islam are far outdated religions, and unable to adapt because of the bible and the quoran. its not a free religion, if one doesnt follow all the rules ur pretty much going to hell like the rest of us.
Vikingskog 2 years ago
Religions like these is nothing but a plague, all religions that have only one,allmighy god, and a "holy text" are very dangerous because it manipulates the mind so easily, especially the uneducated. And the leaders of these religions holds the key to heaven, which is what fuels fanatics so easily and which is what have caused many of the wars we have seen.
Doesnt matter what "modern-christians" or "modern muslims" say today, their religion is red full of blood which will not wash off.
Vikingskog 2 years ago
the problem is it was not the religion that caused the people to kill it was their misinterpretation. they thought that God wanted us to "convert" people by any meens when really God wanted us to mearly tell people about him and from there let him take over. i am a Christian by the way. A religion does not cause acts a person does.
danorus92 2 years ago
christians are blood made "saints" and theres nothing else to it and thier all decieved into thinking their religion is their own when truly it is simply a stolen mish mash of ideas from previous cultures and if you dont believe me than start actually reading history books
afterlifedeath2all 2 years ago 2
First of all i'm a history buff so i do read history books. I do however think you should read the Bible and see that Christianity is not a mish mash of all other religions. As well we are not blood made "saints" as you put it. As well you might want to look a little closer at the crusades it was not only "christians" who were in it a lot of people went just to get money who were not "christians".
danorus92 2 years ago
well actually ive read the bible several times seeing as i was raised christian, if your a history buff than you would know that christianitys spread only happened through the slaughtering of people who wouldnt join. I never mentioned the crusades thats a whole different story. Christmas is pagan as is easterhalloweenthanksgiving and every other holiday in the spirit of "christ" and it just so happens that theres another religion from persia that came before christianity that is exactly the same
afterlifedeath2all 2 years ago
Love lies at the foundation of Christianity. If you see people who call themselves Christians committing crimes than they aren't what they say they are. Do you know the expression: 'a wolf in a sheep's skin'? You can't blame the religion itself for what people make out of it. I admit, what christianity looks today is its very opposite. But its principles are good. Love your neighbour like yourself, love even your enemy! What do you think of it?
orliczek4 2 years ago
Look at history, what the power of christianity in men has done, aswell as islam.
What the book says or how you read it is pointless, its the effect it has on the human mind and their deeds through history that shows how much its worth.
Enough millions of people have died,being tortured, cutted down limb from limb, blinded, burned alive, robbed in christianity and islams name that no more proof is necessary.
The principles do not work, and they are unecessary.
Vikingskog 2 years ago
Nyyydelig hymne...♥ vidunderlig atmosfære over,
tross det religiøse aspektet..
Del veldig gjerne mer av dette med oss..! ♥
AncestraX 2 years ago 2
Nobilus Humilis from the magnus hymn manuscript, one of the oldest preserved nordic songs (even though it's a christian song), and a beautiful rendition! I was actually just searching yesterday for an authentic sounding version, amazingly you put this up the next day! I'm glad somebody is keeping this alive.
RideTehWalri 2 years ago 9
@RideTehWalri Do you know the lyrics
Porfinnr 1 year ago