Faun--Egil Saga

[rntbprz]

there may be some translation mistakes, i recieved this from someone else, and filtered out the mistakes i saw immediately

[rntbprz]

english part 2

Egil carved runes and placed them under the cushion of the bed she rested on. It was to her as if she had awoken from sleep, and she said she was well now.

Chorus: No man should carve runes Who knows not how to read them well; Many a man is misled by dark forces. Ten secret runes have I seen Scratched on smoothed out fish bone; For the girl this has caused sorrow for a long time.

[rntbprz]

english as follows part1

“She has been ill for a long time, she has the exhaustion, cannot sleep any night and was as if she had lost reason and shape.”

Runes have been scratched therefore, it is a farmer’s son, not far from here, he has done that, but afterwards it was

 much worse than before.

[Gotenland]

An great shamanic song from iceland. The power of our holy pagan culture.

Allheil from Austria!

[psychgoth]

You might want to add some more tags to the vid so that more people can see the music of Faun.

Try: Faun, medieval, Pagan, mittelalterlichen, musik, Egil Saga, Icelandic, norse, Alto recorder, Nyckelharpa,

[SabrielNecromantic]

@psychgoth Thank you very much for the idea--I posted this video some years ago and never got around to extending the tags. :3

[psychgoth]

Is this the actual video for Egil Saga? Or is it from another song?

[SabrielNecromantic]

@psychgoth This is the real video. :3

[KingNurk]

May the pagan roots of humankind never be forgotten.

[konno12moto]

nope but i wish i did

[Aniihya]

Its Old Norse, read the original Edda, because they got the lyrics from the Skaldasaga. And they were awesome in concert.

[splynch1980]

Egil's Saga rocks, but I like the Jomsviking better.

[Avasra2]

omg... dis songs is magical...

i like it very much!

it put an interest in me to learn this language... such a melody so hard to engrave.

[TheKahty]

wandervol ich kann kein englich dieser song und alle sund cool echtcool

[Avasra2]

okay..... what was dat???

[catterpillar82]

old icelandic

[Lilvikqueen]

I just love this video and the song, love FAUN!

[dragonspelled]

i love this music. ive know this band since i was 9.a true german pagen band.its a good thing i know how to speak it . the video has good meaning too mei can sing this perfficetly too

[Jakegothicsnake]

It's kinda like The dark-haired woman died and her soul/spirit is wondering around ina wintery limbo/spirit world and the other band members are like witches/warlocks/wizards/druid­s/shamans and they're performing a ritual to bring her back to life.

[Hwitwulf]

druids? druids are celts, and celts are not germaics or vikings

[Jakegothicsnake]

I know, but I just wasn't sure if they are being celts or scandinavians.....

[FalxOccult]

you are right m8 but germanic mixet blood with celts in north europe.. and not only blood .. also culture... celts with thracians .. dacians latins and so on.. .. so stop claiming heritige .. no one is pure blood those days

[Hwitwulf]

@FalxOccult

No problem, I just don't like confusion of the cultures

[FalxOccult]

@Hwitwulf any way respect for nordic cultures.

[Bibbelibontse]

The refrain/chorus is the best part. ^^

[Bibbelibontse]

The text is medieval icelandic (or old norse). It's from Egils Saga Skall-Grimssonar, a famous icelandic Saga. The song tells the episode of Egil healing a girl with runes. She was ill from a love-spell badly carved in runes by a boy who felt in love with her.... Nice song.

[ShinKillKenny]

ancient icelandic... not ancient norse^^

[Bibbelibontse]

Well in fact I wrote "Old norse" (not ancient) which was actually the language spoken in Western Scandinavia from about the VIII to the XIV century, when the "national languages" emerged (swedish, norwegian, danish, icelandic). Icelandic is still today extremely close to Old Norse, which someone also calls Old Icelandic (wrongly, since Norse was spoken also in Norway and its other settlements, as Greenland, Shetlands, Orkneys and Faeroyer islands)...

[musicmadness1]

I heard someone say that the language is Gaelic or ancient German. I looked up the lyrics on Google Translate, and it said it can't Translate Icelandic to English. ICELANDIC! WHO NEW?!

[Theodwita]

Someone said it was Gaelic or German? LOL! I could see possibly mistaking it for German, the Scandinavian Languages are reasonably close to German and someone very uninformed could make that mistake. but Gaelic? Gaelic isn't at all like German or Norse, not even to someone who's never bothered to pay attention to languages

[IrethEarfalas]

Does anybody has got a traslation?

[Zumwaloro]

I need a translation too! :S

[Nachtaktiev]

Well, i don't know the exact translation by heart but i know that the song is about a young man who wants to heal a girl with the magic of runes. But he don't know how to use them exactly, so all gets worse until Egil arrives and saves the girl. The refrain means something like: if you don't know how to handle with runes, don't use them!

[Zumwaloro]

Thx pal! XD

[Svartkorp]

The song is made up by parts of Egil saga that is part of The Sagas of Icelanders

The lyrics

She had long been ill;

her complaint was a pining sickness;

she got no sleep at night,

and was as one possessed.

'Runes have been graven,'

a landowner's son hard by did this;

and she is since much worse than before.

[Svartkorp]

Runes none should grave ever

Who knows not to read them;

Of dark spell full many

The meaning may miss.

Ten spell-words writ wrongly

On whale-bone were graven:

Whence to leek-tending maiden,

Long sorrow and pain.'

Egil then graved runes, and laid them under the bolster of the bed where the woman lay. She seemed as if she waked out of sleep, and said she now felt well,

[valeriawainwright]

@IrethEarfalas----- an english translation would be much appreciated !!!

[valeriawainwright]

@IrethEarfalas----- an english translation would be much appreciated !!!

[thistleflowers]

This is such a beautiful song!!

[Reistlinn]

it´s a really great vid....:-)

[Jakegothicsnake]

I love this song.