Sinclairvise - Folque

[HeimirJosefsson]

Kjempe bra! Nå må jeg finne mer med Folque... =P

[abstractthreat]

Crazy, it looks like the instrument the man on the far right is holding is an Appalachian Dulcimer. That's something rarely seen here in America.

[jentoft]

@Rejgnar det er helt korrekt! Det artige er jo at det höres svärt likt ut:)

[Tidelsson]

LOVE IT...

[TheThorsgirl]

krasna piesen, good performence

I have heard Tyr's version and I love it

[0pteryx]

dette burde ha vært norges nasjonal sang!

[siggdigg]

@0pteryx enig

[pirateXsatellite]

wow. first hearing of folque. wow again.

[rivalpiper]

I've become obsessed with finding as much Folque as possible—thanks for posting so much. Could you put the norsk tekst up on the video? I'm using their music to practice learning norsk. :) Tusen takk.

[Lauv]

Sikker? Folque er norske og originalteksten er på dansk/rigsmål. Kan hende det høyrast ut som dei synger på gøtudansk, for norsk(bokmål, vel og merke) og gøtudansk er veldig likt.

[peregj]

Battle of Kringen indeed. The song tells of 1400-scots who came maurading through Norway only to meet their deaths at Kringen in Gulbrandsdalen. Well boys and girls here are a few funfacts about this battle:

1. There wasent really much of a battle at all. The peasent army probably numbered at many as 1800 and they waited in a well planned and well preperd ambush. They might have waited and fortified themself for more then a week before the action took place.

[peregj]

2. Most of the scots killed in batte where killed by timbertraps and stones sent downhill towards em by the peasents. They where trapped between a furious river and falling timber and stones. Many drowned.

3. Most of the scots that lost their life at Kringen was murderd after being taken captive. Many where knifed or simply beaten to death during the first nigth by drunken farmers who wanted to be off to theirfarms and families now that the fighting was over.

[peregj]

5. In the aftermath of Kringen the goverment launched an investigation into what really happend. That report is lost.

6. There was actually a tree more scotish treks trough Norway. These where somewhat better armed and had more people. These was not touched on their way to Sweden.

[peregj]

7. So where does the heroic in this story kick in? Well actually not untill the war 1807-1814. in 1814 it was considerd patriotic to sing and preform this song among the many who wanted a independent Norway free of Sweden and free of Danmark. In many was this is our "white cliffs of Dover".

When freedom failed to manifest itself i 1814, the song was sowly fading and forgotten. Floque is the first group to my knowledge that rediscoverd it.

[aGeilini]

Floque is a old croup, so yeah they where the first to rediscovered it, but the first to make internationally with this song are Týr.

[HaakonTheViking]

It was closer to 500 scots and about 400 norwegians, but still in a well prepeard ambush there is not mutch of a figth. I know the song said 1400, but it is probably just exaggeration. But it is true that the surviving scots (about 120) where brutaly massacred by a bunch of drunken farmers at a barn.

[EdvardStorm]

Gudbrandsdalen burde lausrive seg frå Noreg, hive ut alle som ikkje dyrker jorda, skifte ham attende til bondesamfunnet og gjere detta til nasjonalsongen sin. Reis dykk på ny, bønder! Reis dykk att!

[Peter4G]

A complete English translation of the song is now available, together with an extract from Eivor Palsdottir's version called "Led er din Sang", at the sinclairgenealogy website (check out Sinclair's ballad under Scandinavia), plus links to the versions by Tyr, Gny and Folque. Does anyone know of others?

[gilleli]

this is a very very old song, and btw check out týr´s version its better if u ask me:p

[pippilottalill]

I recently visited the memorial stone of the battle of Kringen, near Otta in Gudbrandsdalen. This battle took place in 1612, part of the Kalmar Wars, 550 scotsmen from the clan Sinclair (Rosslyn Chapel!) came across the North Sea.

George Sinclair was shot by one of my relatives, Berdon Sejersted, who later became famous because of this heroic act. Look up Wikiepedia re. Battle of Kringen.

[blocker698]

denne har samme tekst som TYR-sinklars visa ...eller er det bare meg ..hør de begge og hør etter da:)

[eplemannen]

Ja, men sangen er mye eldre enn begge disse versjonene.

[Kopijeger]

Riktig, sangen skal ha blitt skrevet av Edvard Storm i 1781.

[blocker698]

oki men er det liksom samme samngen ...bare de synger på forskjellig språk ?

[eplemannen]

Nei, Tyr uttaler bare ordene anderledes fordi de er fra Færøyene. Egentlig er teksten helt lik.

[blocker698]

var det eg mente ...de er noe digg begge to så :)

[einherjen]

Teksterne er ikke HELT ens. Der er visse vers, som e forskellige. Blandt andet det sidste vers.

[wwwoe]

Folque is NORWEGIAN :)

[SummerHerald]

this song's immense.

[RossiaAngel]

Love this band.

I know that they sang some English songs in Norwegian language... Does anybody know if they ever sang in Old English?

[Kopijeger]

Они пели толкько на норвежском.

[sonoNEKO]

i'm not familiar with all of their music, but I'm gonna say it's pretty unlikely (as an aside to that, anyone know anyone that sings in Anglo-Saxon?)

[einherjen]

Fed sang! Jeg elsker teksten. Den vækker noget i mig.

[shuichifucker]

10 secs already faved

[Kopijeger]

You might want to listen to the Týr and Gny versions of the same song (search for "sinklars").

[shuichifucker]

yeha i know the tyr version ill try gny. ty : D

[vanefreja]

i know the bodrahn player of Gny:P

[shuichifucker]

thats pretty cool O.O

[baldrbraa]

@vanefreja Yes me too. She's very VERY nice.

[MephistaFilth]

@Kopijeger They're both fantastic, as well as this one.

[Cantocourse]

@Kopijeger They pale in comparison. Also: Pronunciation too weird

[ChainsawGutsfuck2]

I love it.

[Falskverklighet]

svenskar har inte lika kul musik ju:(

Men svenska förstår jag mkt bättreXDDX

//Liten svensk idiotXD

[Dosenbiertier]

Great Band!!!

The first Song i've known of them...

Greez from Germany!

[maarhoefe]

waths the name of this band this band just made my love for death metal and blac kmeta ldisapear in 3:24 minutes

[Profoss]

The name of the band is Folque. From Norway. :-)

[phlogios]

I thought they were from the Faroes... I know the song is in Norwegian but I'm pretty sure this band is from the Faroes, much like Týr.

[sonoNEKO]

they're from norway...

[phlogios]

Oh. Apparently! Seems I got the wrong information somewhere. I was almost sure they were from the Faroes, like Týr. I don't remember exactly where I got that information though. Wikipedia rings a bell but I can't tell which article in which language. Someone should correct them :P MySpace says Folque is Norwegian.

[Frozenyak]

100% Norwegian

[phlogios]

k thx

[SancharKhan]

Fuck. I like this.

I like everything about local histories... I like vikings, celts, turks.

Fuck yeah...

[HaakonTheViking]

Så jevlig bra, digger historien bak det også. digger det ass.

[Nabium]

:) hoho

noen av forfedrene mine kom over med Sinclair. Har fremdeles skotsk etternavn :]

[ShaiDaan]

HAy MacAsswipe.

Det er like teit å skryte av det som om du hadde vert japansk og skrytet av at dine forfedre kom til Kina under 2. verdenskrig..

Sinclair og leiesoldatene hans var ikke hyggelige folk blandt lokalbefolkning. Dog har de gitt oss en fin liten seier vi kan skryte av. :)

[Nabium]

Haha, lille sytende bitch as. Bønder i Romsdalen er faen ikke mye å spare på anyways. Dessuten fikk vi godt betalt av svenskene :)

[heimdallhinfrode]

de bønder fra vågå lesja og lom med skarpe økser på nakke i brede bygd tilsammen kom med skotten ville de snakke frem bønder frem i norske menn slå ned slå ned for fote da ønsket seg skotten hjem igjen han var ei rett lystig til mote ei noen levende sjel kom hjem som kunne sin landsmann fortelle hvor farlig det er at besøke dem der bor iblandt norriges fjelle

[RovdemNarumid]

a Týr verzió jobb bár lehet h csak azért mert azt hallottam előbb ^^

[DeathinHand]

lol, can't say this is my kind of music xD check out Týr's version :D

[ataturkuberalles]

We wouldn't have bands like Týr without this; Folque was one of the first bands to explore combinations of traditional music with rock. I'm willing to bet you good money that the members of Týr were inspired by this group. For the record, I like Týr's version too.

[thegurem]

/agree