@SuperhumanChichi You're right, this song is also known as Säckpipslåt från Norra Råda. I think Herr Olaf is the same song, but then with lyrics. I'm not sure though.
What language is this really?, im norwegian and i can't recognize the language 100%. but i understand mostly all. a part between swe and fin perhaps? scandinavian all the way for sure :)
I'm Finnish, originally from a town with a sizable Swedish-speaking minority, and I can tell you that it's pretty basic (Fenno-)Swedish. Maybe a bit old if anything (because of folk-lyrics), but still completely comprehensive.
And I can't either understand Norwegian for shit so no wonder. :D Maybe the languages are already drifting apart.
You can preserve your culture and embrace multiculturalism. The two are not mutually exclusive. I'm feel very much English. I am discovering more and more about English traditional music, and slowly deepening my understanding of where I've come from. My dad's been immersed in tracing our family history, and I'm getting a greater sense of my ancestry, the professions, the hardships, the migrations, the values.
My life is very much connected to the English landscape. I feel it in my veins. And I love where I'm from. And I also love the richness of the influences in my country that could only be there because people have migrated here. They've brought their language, their food, their customs, their music, their art. European, African, Asian, American. I started listening to Swedish and Finnish traditional music a few years ago, and I absolutely love it.
I started listening to Swedish and Finnish traditional music a few years ago. I absolutely love it. It connects me to places I have no first hand knowledge of, words I can't understand but I feel the spirit of them. It doesn't rob me of my own sense of my indigenous culture. It opens a door for me. And it kindles a love of my own history at the same time. And, at the end of the day - we're all migrants, we've all come from somewhere else at some point in our history. Enjoy both! :) x
@verityandstu No, not everyone is an immigrant. There are people all over the world that still live where their ancestors have lived for generations. There are only two countries made up of only immigrants and that is America and Canada, every other country in the world is the indigenous country of that nation of people. Stay true to your culture and your people, quit trying your bullshit globalist, universalist, one size fits all attitude, it destroys cultures.
@FullMoonMysticism1 Michelle Obama spoke at the inauguration of the Shanksville Memorial, saying to the loved ones of the deceased that you wish not to change into someone unfamiliar to those you've lost, but they didn't know you as an unchanging person; that in time, to move forward is to be true to their memory. That doesn't mean they'll be forgotten; nor will this traditional music be. Rather, diversity will be treasured in a globalized world. "Universalist'? That's Jingoist paranoia.
@mookins45 Very well said, thank you. FullMoon had a couple other inaccuracies in his diatribe which I noticed you didn't call him on. Most noteworthy is his assertion that only American and Canada are made up of immigrants. Surely he hasn't studied historical migration patterns of peoples in Europe. Nor defined how alledgedly 'indigenous' people came to be in their 'homeland'
But alas, to engage in such a rudimentary discussion with such minded, can be quite frustrating.
And it's hardly one-size-fits-all ... if anything, you've made a whole bunch of assumptions about me, missed a whole bunch of points in what I said, and made a wildly inaccurate statement about America and Canada being the only countries 'made up of only immigrants' (conveniently overlooking indigenous communities). I'd suggest that most groups of people have, at some point in their history a) moved, b) 'interbred' with people from other groups ....
... and c) either assimilated cultural expressions from another group, or influenced another group with their own. And I'd suggest unless you're listening only to music from your own culture, eating only traditional food, wearing only the clothes that your ancestors wore, using traditional technologies and communicating only using methods and expressions rooted in their history, then you're also part of that exchange.
@FullMoonMysticism1 What about Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, etc.? Great Britain is mish-mosh of different northern and central european "immigrant" bloodlines as well.
And no, I am not an immigrant. My family has been here in the former colonies of the British Empire now known as America as far back as my family history is recorded.
I'm all for preserving cultures, but you really look like an ignoramus by saying that.
@Dnamsak Hello. Thank you for pointing out "Folk & Rackare". I had not heard of them before until you mentioned them. I just found some of their songs on Youtube, a lot of interesting music.
@Dnamsak Kändes riktigt häftigt när mamma plockade fram den :) Hon spelade den hela tiden förut sade hon. Nu är både hon och jag sugen på att få igång vår spelade i källaren och börja spela lite gamla plattor igen ^^
People usually like their own culture's music. For instance a Greek person usually wouldn't like Chinses music or a South Africn person wouldn't usually like Indonesian music. Likewise I'm Indian and am surprised that I love this. Get it now?
@thangacchi Actually that's not true. Many people find music from different cultures very interesting. Me for example, I love listening to Arabic traditional music, and Turkish, but focus mostly on Swedish and nordic music because I can understand it best and it feels the most right. If you like one type of traditional music from one place, then you usually like some from another country too :)
All the people I know tend to like their own music. That's what I was trying to say. I knwo there are exceptions to all rules. I personally am a world music person. I loooove Irish music. Not a Arabic music fan sorry :)
@RyanVonFleming Garmarna version is DIFFERENT. A more instrument-complex arrange with each band prefered instruments. Gjallarhorn version appears to have a more medieval approach since i think Garmarna version is more modern. Anyway, both approaches are very beautifull, diferent and well done (And very well done).
@leleobhz Yes, I agree. The Garmarna, the Gjallarhorn AND the Azam Ali version are all well done, each one representing the artists' unique personalities and styles.
With traditional source material like this to start with, its easy to see how there can be many interesting and enjoyable interpretations.
@nodak746 Likewise - though I think I prefer this (just a bit) over the Garmarna version. Perhaps it is just that I have the Ranarop CD and the sound is naturally richer and more clear and balanced on that - while I know the Garmarna version only from the YT.
Great song - one of many by Gjallarhorn. However the YouTube sound quality is really an issue with their material - as is every sound packing method (MP3 etc). The actual greatness of the clear and open soundscapes are available only through the original records played on a decent system. I just found it myself when I finally managed to obtain the records - absolutely stunning stuff.
My new best song :)
Goldplus1001 3 weeks ago
Så forbandet smukt.
Hilsener fra Danmark.
EinherjarAngantyr 1 month ago
This sounds like Sackpipslät by Azam Ali. Both probably based on the same traditional song :)
SuperhumanChichi 1 month ago
@SuperhumanChichi You're right, this song is also known as Säckpipslåt från Norra Råda. I think Herr Olaf is the same song, but then with lyrics. I'm not sure though.
ElentariRose 1 week ago
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SuperhumanChichi 1 month ago
What language is this really?, im norwegian and i can't recognize the language 100%. but i understand mostly all. a part between swe and fin perhaps? scandinavian all the way for sure :)
FreddyThaNightmare 1 month ago
@FreddyThaNightmare It's old swedish.
onlypeaceindeath 1 month ago
@FreddyThaNightmare It's Fenno-Swedish (Finland Swedish), an accent of Swedish that they speak in parts of Finland
vaultkeeper2 2 weeks ago
@FreddyThaNightmare
I'm Finnish, originally from a town with a sizable Swedish-speaking minority, and I can tell you that it's pretty basic (Fenno-)Swedish. Maybe a bit old if anything (because of folk-lyrics), but still completely comprehensive.
And I can't either understand Norwegian for shit so no wonder. :D Maybe the languages are already drifting apart.
homohittis 1 week ago
@FreddyThaNightmare Their dialect is Fenno-Swedish, but the language is really old time Swedish :)
MysMultilanguagesFav 1 week ago
Säckpipslåt with lyrics?
jugglergc 2 months ago
ALL SWEDISH MAN ARE GAY!! UMAD BÖGPOJKE FRÅN SWERIGE??????
YOU SUCK AND FINLAND RULES EBIN SPUDRO SPÄRDE SPRÖLÖLÖLÖ
ultramultifailofepic 2 months ago
@ultramultifailofepic Suffering from a mental sickness or something?
Lol psychopath..
NordenHonor 2 months ago
@ultramultifailofepic Says the finn who almost got a gay president haha
TheEupot 1 day ago
European culture is worth preserving. Stand against multiculturalism and multiracialism!
NationalLibertarian 3 months ago
@NationalLibertarian
You can preserve your culture and embrace multiculturalism. The two are not mutually exclusive. I'm feel very much English. I am discovering more and more about English traditional music, and slowly deepening my understanding of where I've come from. My dad's been immersed in tracing our family history, and I'm getting a greater sense of my ancestry, the professions, the hardships, the migrations, the values.
verityandstu 3 months ago 2
My life is very much connected to the English landscape. I feel it in my veins. And I love where I'm from. And I also love the richness of the influences in my country that could only be there because people have migrated here. They've brought their language, their food, their customs, their music, their art. European, African, Asian, American. I started listening to Swedish and Finnish traditional music a few years ago, and I absolutely love it.
verityandstu 3 months ago
I started listening to Swedish and Finnish traditional music a few years ago. I absolutely love it. It connects me to places I have no first hand knowledge of, words I can't understand but I feel the spirit of them. It doesn't rob me of my own sense of my indigenous culture. It opens a door for me. And it kindles a love of my own history at the same time. And, at the end of the day - we're all migrants, we've all come from somewhere else at some point in our history. Enjoy both! :) x
verityandstu 3 months ago 3
@verityandstu No, not everyone is an immigrant. There are people all over the world that still live where their ancestors have lived for generations. There are only two countries made up of only immigrants and that is America and Canada, every other country in the world is the indigenous country of that nation of people. Stay true to your culture and your people, quit trying your bullshit globalist, universalist, one size fits all attitude, it destroys cultures.
FullMoonMysticism1 2 months ago 2
@FullMoonMysticism1
I suppose, by that reckoning, Gjallarhorn are betraying their culture by using a didgeridoo.
verityandstu 2 months ago
@FullMoonMysticism1 Michelle Obama spoke at the inauguration of the Shanksville Memorial, saying to the loved ones of the deceased that you wish not to change into someone unfamiliar to those you've lost, but they didn't know you as an unchanging person; that in time, to move forward is to be true to their memory. That doesn't mean they'll be forgotten; nor will this traditional music be. Rather, diversity will be treasured in a globalized world. "Universalist'? That's Jingoist paranoia.
mookins45 2 months ago
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ralphyboy25 2 months ago
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@mookins45 Very well said, thank you. FullMoon had a couple other inaccuracies in his diatribe which I noticed you didn't call him on. Most noteworthy is his assertion that only American and Canada are made up of immigrants. Surely he hasn't studied historical migration patterns of peoples in Europe. Nor defined how alledgedly 'indigenous' people came to be in their 'homeland'
But alas, to engage in such a rudimentary discussion with such minded, can be quite frustrating.
ralphyboy25 2 months ago
@FullMoonMysticism1
And it's hardly one-size-fits-all ... if anything, you've made a whole bunch of assumptions about me, missed a whole bunch of points in what I said, and made a wildly inaccurate statement about America and Canada being the only countries 'made up of only immigrants' (conveniently overlooking indigenous communities). I'd suggest that most groups of people have, at some point in their history a) moved, b) 'interbred' with people from other groups ....
verityandstu 2 months ago
... and c) either assimilated cultural expressions from another group, or influenced another group with their own. And I'd suggest unless you're listening only to music from your own culture, eating only traditional food, wearing only the clothes that your ancestors wore, using traditional technologies and communicating only using methods and expressions rooted in their history, then you're also part of that exchange.
verityandstu 2 months ago
@FullMoonMysticism1 What about Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, etc.? Great Britain is mish-mosh of different northern and central european "immigrant" bloodlines as well.
And no, I am not an immigrant. My family has been here in the former colonies of the British Empire now known as America as far back as my family history is recorded.
I'm all for preserving cultures, but you really look like an ignoramus by saying that.
leroybivins 2 months ago
azam ali's version is better i think.
turkoman19 3 months ago
Verkar inte vara många som känner till Folk & Rackare. Det var la ändå de som gjorde denna låt först? (1976)
Dnamsak 3 months ago
@Dnamsak Hello. Thank you for pointing out "Folk & Rackare". I had not heard of them before until you mentioned them. I just found some of their songs on Youtube, a lot of interesting music.
thanks again..
ralphyboy25 3 months ago
@ralphyboy25 You are most welcome Sir.
Dnamsak 3 months ago
@Dnamsak Min mamma hade den LP'n :) Vi letade precis upp den och ska lyssna, tack vare att jag hittade denna låten.
MysMultilanguagesFav 3 months ago
@MysMultilanguagesFav Coolt, själv har jag den på band, men LP känns mer respekt ;)
Dnamsak 3 months ago
@Dnamsak Kändes riktigt häftigt när mamma plockade fram den :) Hon spelade den hela tiden förut sade hon. Nu är både hon och jag sugen på att få igång vår spelade i källaren och börja spela lite gamla plattor igen ^^
MysMultilanguagesFav 3 months ago
north europe sure has a beautiful culture.
jin54363 4 months ago
does there excist an instrumental video of this song?
jiujitsu010 4 months ago
Woah! I'm Indian and I like this a lot! You have pretty cool music, Sweden!
thangacchi 5 months ago 27
@thangacchi What's being Indian got to do with it?
QueenRopagrim 3 months ago
@QueenRopagrim
People usually like their own culture's music. For instance a Greek person usually wouldn't like Chinses music or a South Africn person wouldn't usually like Indonesian music. Likewise I'm Indian and am surprised that I love this. Get it now?
thangacchi 3 months ago
@thangacchi Sounds like a load of shite to me, but you do have a somewhat valid point. I'll let it slide haha
QueenRopagrim 2 months ago
@thangacchi Actually that's not true. Many people find music from different cultures very interesting. Me for example, I love listening to Arabic traditional music, and Turkish, but focus mostly on Swedish and nordic music because I can understand it best and it feels the most right. If you like one type of traditional music from one place, then you usually like some from another country too :)
Fantasygold2 2 months ago 3
@Fantasygold2
All the people I know tend to like their own music. That's what I was trying to say. I knwo there are exceptions to all rules. I personally am a world music person. I loooove Irish music. Not a Arabic music fan sorry :)
thangacchi 2 months ago 3
@thangacchi
It depends of one´s personality.
StellandBlood 2 months ago
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@thangacchi go die fucking colored scum!
SmegmatorBestijalni 3 weeks ago
@thangacchi Indian music is awesome, I could just sit and listen to a sitar forever! XD
TheNickhis 2 weeks ago
It is beautiful, really, but I'd honestly prefer Azam Ali's version
fresusjeak1 8 months ago
zero dislikes :)
RAacousticfreak 9 months ago
The violin seems a bit similar to the Wooden Pints song by Korpiklaani
ctmaniak 11 months ago
@ctmaniak I knew it sound familiar!
blackmoor17 10 months ago
My Gjallar is laying here and doing nothing...
anjawilmink 11 months ago
This song is like a movie to me, if I close my eyes I am in another world.
Bulgroz99 1 year ago
@Bulgroz99 I feel the same. In fact, I find the entire 'Ranarop' album entrancing. It harkens me to a world and time far away and long ago.
ralphyboy25 1 year ago
does anyone know the main woman singer's name?
GogolBordelloLover 1 year ago
@GogolBordelloLover Wikipedia does.
Einheri1989 1 year ago
@GogolBordelloLover Jenny Wilhelms
mylighthouse10 9 months ago
Garmarna version better? i think not!!
RyanVonFleming 1 year ago 12
@RyanVonFleming Garmarna version is DIFFERENT. A more instrument-complex arrange with each band prefered instruments. Gjallarhorn version appears to have a more medieval approach since i think Garmarna version is more modern. Anyway, both approaches are very beautifull, diferent and well done (And very well done).
leleobhz 8 months ago
@leleobhz Yes, I agree. The Garmarna, the Gjallarhorn AND the Azam Ali version are all well done, each one representing the artists' unique personalities and styles.
With traditional source material like this to start with, its easy to see how there can be many interesting and enjoyable interpretations.
ralphyboy25 8 months ago 2
@RyanVonFleming i'd like to hear Gjallarhorn do Herr Mannelig! Garmarna has the best version i've heard so far...
fsrhodes 2 months ago
@fsrhodes Actually I would like to hear anything new from Gjallarhorn. They seem to have been rather dormant for the last several years.
ralphyboy25 2 months ago
I love this, yet prefer the Garmarna version. If I could hear Emma & Jenny together it would really be something special.
nodak746 1 year ago
@nodak746 Likewise - though I think I prefer this (just a bit) over the Garmarna version. Perhaps it is just that I have the Ranarop CD and the sound is naturally richer and more clear and balanced on that - while I know the Garmarna version only from the YT.
And I totally agree on your last point ;)
EneriGiilaan 1 year ago
oh i wish i lived back in Albion
LokiTrickaras 1 year ago 2
Count Olaf!
LaCritiqueRouge 1 year ago
Great song - one of many by Gjallarhorn. However the YouTube sound quality is really an issue with their material - as is every sound packing method (MP3 etc). The actual greatness of the clear and open soundscapes are available only through the original records played on a decent system. I just found it myself when I finally managed to obtain the records - absolutely stunning stuff.
EneriGiilaan 1 year ago
This is by far the best version of this song. And I love it. Thank you so much for posting. :)
daydreamer1991white 1 year ago 6
Love this song, thank you so much for posting it.
I've heard a few versions of Herr Olof, but Jenny wilhelms voice really makes this work.
suvetar 2 years ago 3