Skyforger - Zviegtin' zviedza kara zirgi

Title translation: "Neighed The Battle Horses"

A good song from the album "Zobena Dziesma".

Lyrics:
Zviegtin zviedza kara zirgi
Karavirus gaididami
Karaviri zobentinus
Uz akmena tecinaj
Iztrinusi zobentinus
Krustam lika zveredami
Labak manu galvu nema
Neka manu tevu zemi
Es jums saku, svesi laudis
Sai zeme nenaciet
Dzied man zelta lakstigala
Zobentina galina

English:
Neighing neighed the war horses
Waiting for the warriors
Warriors sharpening their swords on stone
Once the swords were sharp,
they put them crosswise and swore:
Better take my head rather than my homeland.
And that I tell you, strangers, do not come to this land -
a golden nightingale is singing on the tip of my sword.

translation offered by UKinLatvia

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Skyforger
• Zviegtin'
• zviedza
• kara
• zirgi
• Latvian
• Folk

[UKinLatvia]

Neighing neighed the war horses

Waiting for the warriors

Warriors sharpening their swords on stone

Once the swords were sharp, they put them crosswise and swore:

Better take my head rather than my homeland.

And that I tell you, strangers, do not come to this land - a golden nightingale is singing on the tip of my sword.

Sorry I cannot do the lyrics as the Latvian always has stress on the first syllable, making it easy to rhyme in a certain way (trochaic).

[wiker666]

@UKinLatvia thx a lot i'll put it in the description.

[orclv]

i love the par of

im teling you foreners

dont come in to my land

i rather give my head

then my fathetlend ^^

p.s. is this the poem that latvian pagans did sing while fighting the cristian crusaders ?

or am i mistaken ?

[wiker666]

Probably, but I'm not sure. I know that Peter said it was an ancient song that the latvian warriors were singing.

[guitarblasterx]

not is the album kauja pie saules

[wiker666]

Yeah it's on this album too. But it's another version of this song.

[DzimteneiHH]

Zviegtin` zviedza kara zirgi Karavīrus gaidīdami ; Karavīri zobentiņus Uz akmeņa tecināj` . Iztrinuši zobentiņus Krustām lika zvērēdami : Labāk manu galvu ņēma , Nekā manu tēvuzemi ! Es jums saku , sveši ļaudis : Šai zemēi nenāciet - Dzied man zelta lakstīgala Zobentiņa galiņā !

[SolntsaSvet]

Excellent!

[KreiviKuroba]

Why thet said 'Suomen'? it's finland word :-d

[lilithpaga]

Simples... Muito bom! *-*

[Lachausis]

@jaaniits24 Pēctam, kad Vikingi pasiroja viņu zemē. Tagadne pierāda, ka latvieši ir kūtri uz pirmajām asinīm.

[eljadro]

Latvia and it´s people are great and I admire them! Respect from slavic brother.

[EndureTemptation]

Some might confuse Latvians with wikings. Please don't, because we ain't and never were. We were peaceful folk who wouldn't fight for anything that ain't ours (like wikings basically did). so this is different war song.

This song for me personaly associates with that feeling when one grabs soil under his feet, which is his father soil. And at that moment he is sure in his heart what for he would give his life. Which is basically what this song is about ("take my head, spare fathers land"). Peace

[lamethodekoweit1]

it's folk music, and baltic music shares with many similarities with other european songs (ie : celtic, germanic, slavic etc. songs).

[TheHellknight12]

European metal sounds good

[40bcoots]

@mynameisjonas45 .. this is closer to 'folk music' .. well as close as Skyforger get. Certainly not 'metal'.' Idealogy'. not the term I would have used..but ' traditional', based upon folklore. This is the only way I can handle Skyforger. The 'metal' has me running for the off-switch.

[mynameisjonas45]

I don't understand. What's with the chanting vocals and folk instruments? Is there like an ideology to this? What's with the flute? is this metal? I'm confused.