Bendik og Årolilja - Gåte

Cool but extremely confusing video from wonderful Norwegian folk rockers Gåte.

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Music

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• gåte
• gaate
• gate
• Bendik
• og
• Årolilja
• aarolilja
• arolilja

[JessicaMallo]

The song is about a guy called Bendik and a girl called Årolilja who falls in love. Åroliljas father (who's sort of a king) doesn't aprove. To make sure she never sees him again his men builds a wall around their land. But they still see each other. One of the king's men discover them and he tells the king. And they execute Bendik. Årolilja is so hartbroken that she dies of grief. Two lilys starts growing from their graves and twines up together to show that nothing could keep them apart

[Helnorsksvartmetall]

i dont see what so confusing with the video.

[Raizing90]

@Boradogih

@vikbjorn

Looking at the lyrics, it sometimes looks a bit like nynorsk. I'd actually guess it's something like trøndersk. All of the band members are from Sør-Trøndelag, and the poet Astrid Krog Halse, from whom they got much of their material, was from Sør-Trøndelag as well.

[Boradogih]

@vikbjorn You're probably right. I mostly "guessed" it was an old dialect, something I must stop doing without reasearching first.. Someone told me about this, but maybe I got it wrong. Anyways, I'm glad there are people out there that know something more and more correct about it! :D But... I should have known better, since I am a norwegian after all xD *feeling stupid* :D

[vikbjorn]

@Boradogih as far as I know it's old norwegian, as removed from old norse by the shifting in use from ashes and thorns, as present in modern icelandic, to d's and th's, not really a dialekt just an older strain of the language. I think :)

[stefpatras]

@Boradogih takk! :)

[Boradogih]

@stefpatras I don't know if anyone has answered you, but this is not bokmål :) This is a special dialect, I don't think people talk like this anymore though, because it's quite old ;) Versågod! Bare hyggelig ;)

[stefpatras]

is this in Bokmal norwegian or another dialect? tusen tak, hilsener fra Hellas

[DarkWolfDK]

@priyankarsaikia Buy the CD online and make it a mp3 for yourself.

Did you know that real people actually spend time and effort to make this music.

[MAYDAYPARADE4EVAH]

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