Viking Music

[YYeezzppeerr]

Proud 100% scandinavian! Will never leave this place!

[marzipann777]

Vell, jeg tenker a vikingenes musikken var litt mer elaborert enn dette! Men fortsett å lete etter hvordan den kunne ha vært! Greetings from Norway.88!

[jeppestrale]

Ehh, not quite familiar with this branch of Viking music

[BlackMetalerWolf]

I was half expecting Amon Amarth lol

[SupernautG]

Why are they not wearing corpse paint and screaming like those viking metal bands?>

[BlackMetalerWolf]

@SupernautG Ikr? lol

[kaas94]

Everybody probably has a bit of viking or old scandinavian DNA in them. The old scandinavians conquer many parts of europe in the times.

[tashaocoileain]

Thats not ANYTHING close to Norwegian or even Swedish musikk. Thats a festival full of people cocking up history and making it into a little game world full of lies. Probably all Christians too.

[gregarioushand]

@tashaocoileain Of course, you'd know, being a viking and all, eh?

[GenghisKhan22]

i learned in school we do not know what any music sounded like before the 1400's

[CornerOfMystery]

This didn't sound like viking music O.o

[Frebra6110]

@CornerOfMystery how do you know, did you think vikings played deathmetal and wore horned helmets and rode around on mammoths?

[CornerOfMystery]

@Frebra6110 The vikings didn't wear horned helmets.. They wore helmets but when christianity arried to Scandinavia the christians drew vikings with horns so they would symbolise the devil..

[Ghostshepard]

I want a Celtic wedding, with music like this. Because the Crwth IS a Celtic instrument.

[drmaikati]

Well aperantly vikings ware good at war but not so good at music :D

[Hestarn]

@drmaikati Viking music are the best but this wasnt -.-

[ulricus1]

@drmaikati

Well - they had some time outside of war ! At Haitabu I told people a story written by an arabic trader who visited Haitabu in viking time. He wrote the vikings are singing like dogs which were barking!

Wait a minute - they told me. They fetched a flute made out of a bone from a swan and made such wonderfull music !!! The flute was found in the ground of the harbour of Haitabu!

[SuckTheBloodyGoat]

Jesus! Vikings came largely in the same clothes as they did in dark ages. the images of the Vikings you must have seen, has been fighting clothes and not everyday clothing.

[ScaldingAnus]

This rox, you are dah bomb.

[Asgath]

The clothes are Anglo-saxon (although essentially the same as viking) These are members of Regia Anglorum and very obsessed with authenticity. They're as accurate as the current archaeology and research tells us near enough.

[uglyengineer]

Was that a traditional viking PA system?

[Hanskfheag]

Did you expect them to wear huge chainbodies and such when playing instruments?

[Joke332]

no i expected leather and skin/fur clothes... they also used fur in summer sometimes, so much clothes like this

[trolltyyg]

lovely =)

[skromt]

As a dark age re-enactor, I don't see anything immediately wrong with the costumes worn or the instruments played. This could pass as Viking, and AT LEAST Northern European by the time of the viking age.

[therealfactor]

False. Everyone knows Vikings wear huge helmets with horns coming out of them. They have a huge axe in hand grasped by a massive hand to a proportional body. They are often found taking over Rome.... Ha ha!

[robinchwan]

@therealfactor actually thats the armor and weapon your talking about.. this is the normal clothes they wear

[bjoernaldo]

Hva i svarte er dette for noe? This has nothing to do with vikings.

[destroiier]

the clothes look more celtic then viking i think

but celtics didn't have pants they used bandages for the feeds or something like these XD

sry for my bad english-.-

[61steuben]

the clothes are wrong but the instuments are right,i think

[Hemaan1p9]

viking?? i dont think the viking had cloths from the mideavil ages.

[LordJarisleif]

The Dark Ages is when the Vikings reached prominence. they would definitely have worn clothes from that time.

[Hemaan1p9]

Sorry for my stupidi Xd förlåt jag vet inte varför jag skrev det där XD

[NXavier787]

Damn I love the Vikings. My wife is descended from them.

That music you're hearing? Way back when, if you heard it - that mean your ass!

LOL

[MrAndyboy1]

HAHA...Pulp Fiction

[montyhund]

this is nothing compared to the danish viking, medieval and so on centers they rock!

[TTrmetal]

by the way, i do believe they are playing a lyre + tinwhistle

[icanhaspopcorns]

anyone hear listen to AMON AMARTH ? =P ah just kidding.

[dude018219293]

i love amon amarth, great viking metal, but i like falkonbach better for viking metal

[TTrmetal]

amon amarth is not viking metal and falkonbach is actually falkenbach.

Is this herr mannelig they are playing?

[InfiniteObscurity]

i don't understand why amon amarth isn't viking metal.

[TTrmetal]

the fact that they wear mjolnir around their necks and have viking themes in their lyrics doesn't make them viking. I do love Amon Amarth, but they are not viking metal and they have said it themselves. They are melodic death metal with viking thematic

[InfiniteObscurity]

wow you're way more specific with genres than i am. if it sounds "viking" and has viking themes, it's viking metal. that just makes sense to me. i hate genres.

[beowulfsword08]

TTrmetal it depends on which re-enactment group they belong to. If they are The Vikings (NFPS), then they will be more than likely Asatru.

[Thethundergods]

they are viking metal

[davidmexico1]

Easy, they do not use any folk instruments, they are absolutely melodic death metal with viking themes. A Viking Metal band would be Moonsorrow. That's why. Hope this helps.

[LordJarisleif]

Then what about Tyr? They only have 2 gutars, a bass guitar, and drums.

[The1TheyCallJake]

But a majority of their music is actual Faroese folk melodies. That at least makes them folk if not viking metal.

[QueenDemonDoll]

Love the video! Hail!

[chickenfuckingelder]

arent their parents proud of what they've accomplished with their lives...

[FatherHeathen]

More proud than yours could be.

[dude018219293]

there are plenty of families that celebrate their backrounds, my family celebrates our viking heritage

[jrgenkratz]

You're supposed to have a bow for that harp.

[dizzeeb33]

That's not a harp, it's a Sutton Hoo Lyre, and cite me your source for it being played with a bow, please?

[brayharper]

Its not a Sutton Hoo, its much more of a Trossingen shape

[leftysergeant]

It doesn't look like anything you would play with a bow. Too wide and flat. I was thinking, though, that there should be a plectrum.

[jrgenkratz]

Looks like a bowed harp to me (stråkharpa/talharpa).

[leftysergeant]

Talharpa has four strings. this looks more like 6 or 8. They are also rather close together for a bowed instrument, certainly no further apart than the player's fingers.

[beowulfsword08]

This is the Sutton Hoo lyre. Originally found in a Saxon ship burial.

[brayharper]

No it isn't.. the Sutton Hoo reconstruction is a square type long lyre, and the body legth is far too long. This is a Germanic pattern, and the playing technique is purely conjectural. I don't know what the tune is, but it is equally conjectural and not particularly convincing.

[beowulfsword08]

I'm only saying it's a Sutton Hoo lyre because the guy playing it is either Regia Anglorum or The Vikings (NFPS) both British Saxon/Vike re-enactors

[brayharper]

even so, the Sutton Hoo is specific shape, not a generic type... and this is the wrong shape to be a Sutton Hoo

[Asgath]

The lyre he is playing was based on a Sutton Hoo lyre if it isn't exactly the same, it isn't far off.

[brayharper]

all the bowed lyres in contemporary iconography are waisted in shape and have 3 strings. rectangular nordic types come from a later period

[vikingkuchka]

simply fantastic

[zacolot]

its simple EPIC

[PapitantryTV]

Briliiant! It's Regia!