SKÁLD | Rún (Lyrics & Translation)
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The stanzas quote the short poem “Völuspá hin skamma” (“Short Völuspá”) as reported in “Gylfaginning” in the Prose Edda. Refrains list out all the names of the runes present in Elder Futhark alphabet (which is also the alphabet I used for my transcription). Runes had a sacred use in Nordic religion: Norse sorcerers, seeresses and warlocks worked their magic with the runes and Odin himself hung to the ash Yggdrasil for nine nights to learn the secrets of the runes and gain the right to be runemaster. To every rune is associated a meaning, usually a word starting by the same letter, to which their magical power was linked. In my translation I opted for a translation of the runes’ names, instead of simply copying them, but keep in mind that most of these names can have more than one translation, and in most cases said translation is not certain [the word “rune” itself means “secret”, after all].
Here is the full list:
Fehu: ᚠ [f] - wealth, cattle
Uruz: ᚢ [u/v] - rain, aurochs, dross, water
Þurisaz: ᚦ [þ/ð] - giant
Ansuz: ᚨ [a] - Ás god, oak, ash
Raido: ᚱ [r] - ride (=”journey by horse”)
Kenaz: ᚲ [k] - ulcer, maybe torch
Gebo: ᚷ [g] - gift
Wunjo: ᚹ [w] - joy
Hagalaz: ᚺ/ᚻ [h] - hail
Naudiz: ᚾ [n] - hardship, need
Isa: ᛁ [i] - ice
Jera: ᛃ [j] - year, harvest
Eihwaz: ᛇ [ï/æ] - yew
Perþo: ᛈ [p] - unknown meaning
Algiz: ᛉ [z] - elk, yew
Sowilo: ᛊ/ᛋ [s] - sun
Tiwaz: ᛏ [t] - Týr
Berkano: ᛒ [b] - birch
Ehwaz: ᛖ [e] - horse
Mannaz: ᛗ [m] - man, human
Laguz: ᛚ [l] - water, waterfall, lake or leek
Ingwaz: ᛜ/ᛝ [ŋ] - Yngvi
Oþalaz: ᛟ [o] - heritage, estate
Dagaz: ᛞ [d] - day
“Valföðr” (“father of the slain”) is one of Odin’s many epithets.
Vitkar were magicians in Norse societies, especially dedicated to runic magic.
Any suggestion and/or observation is warmly welcome.
The lyrics are pronounced by singer Justine Galmiche as modern Icelandic, instead of using Old Norse pronunciation: e.g. she sings “á” as the Icelandic diphthong /au/ instead of the Old Norse /a:/ or the double “l” as /tl/.
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Technically this could be seen as an equivalent to the alphabet song.
This one’s way cooler.
Except the elder futhark is not an alphabet :p its a sound system.
ᚨᛚᛃᛖᚾ•ᚠᚨᛒᛖᚱ
What do you mean?
@@thepip3599 watch: the runes - common misconceptions by Arith Härger. He explains why the elder futhark is not an alphabet.
@@Sk1tz092 linguist here. The elder futhark is classified as an alphabet because it’s a writing system where one letter represents a phoneme.
@@LeonCorvenus666 it’s a writing system, classified as an alphabet
Sharing a Comment: "Everyone is gangsta untill the norse start singing their alphabet"
Accurate 🤣
Hahahaaa🤣💯🔥
You are goddamn right boy, The Jotun alphabet can drop a rap god XD
🔥💪🪶
Is Icelandic not norse this has 26 not 16 letters
🌺Even if your mind doesn't understand, your heart and soul will🌺
It's been a while since I read anything THIS true.
Very true
In ancient Norse culture this song would be considered an act of magic given that speaking the names of each rune individually is kind of like cast a spell because you would be calling the aspects if each rune like Fehu’s aspects are wealth good fortune and harvest
Insightful
And as a Norse man this song gets me so fired up it's awesome I'm finding skald and wardruna are two of my faves
This song moved me in ways I didn't understand.. had me homesick for a place I've never been.
I got my DNA test back...
All have to say is.. skald !!
It is a spell. I don't even know the language but energetically I knew
@orchard_ot1146 a song called the Blood of Cu Chulainn has that effect on me I feel get entranced and a kind of longing to journey home even though I've never been to Ireland this one just makes me feel at home like I'm in control of my surroundings and confident
That one person who disliked has no taste in music and no power in their soul.
Let´s send healing prayers to the (at the moment) 23 lost souls who disliked this
Omggg everything fits.!!! Rúnes have alphabets which are called Svarthfda. And she's singing out the Elder Futhark Letters one by one. Wow
Actually Svarthfda is a place (the land of the dwarves, I think? I may be wrong). The Futhark was named from the first six letters of the Elder Futhark: Fehu, Uruz, Thurisaz, Ansuz, Raido, Kenaz.
@@chloej1611 You're very close! Svartálfheim is the land of the Dwarves.
Svarthöfde is a man's name I think. But here it seems to refer to a place. I just discovered there's a lake called Svarthövden close to my hometown! I'll go for a swim some day.
ALPHABET SONG
@@Visse90 Come from here means "To descend from". a common translation of this poem (which has a missing line, about the Jotnar)
All the witches
spring from Witolf,
All the warlocks
are of Willharm,
And the spell-bearers
spring from Swarthead;
All the giants
of Ymir come.
I love their voices
It means even more if you read the Runes. Being one with Odin and him sharing the ability to see is incredible after all he gave up to be able to read them.🥰
As one who also reads runes, I agree
I agree with you, I’m learning to read rune’s with Freyja. I’m starting on my third rune, thurisaz.
I'm gonna be playing a LOT of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla while listening to this. LOL
Throw in some Wardruna too
You can't forget heilung's great work!
Just hope Ubisoft don't chance my people history in the Assassins Creed Valhalla game and disrespect our people. We were vikings and our history is build on sacrifice, blood and unity in Scandinavia. 🇩🇰
@Peter Poulsen unity of Scandinavia? Not quite, Scandinavia was _never_ unified during the Viking era. Quite the opposite: Viking populations spread and diversified across a vast variety of places, settling down as far as Turkey, not to mention how the modern name "Russia" is derived of the word "Rus", old Finnish word for "Sweden/Swedish" (still nowadays called "Ruotsi" in Finnish). Not to mention, the whole Asatro, including the concept of Valhalla itself, is _not_ native to Scandinavia at all: it was imported by populations who migrated to Scandinavia from the Middle East, hence it's derived of Proto-Indo-European mythology and developed through Germanic folklore.
Dude exactly what is going on with me rn
Anna, thankyou so much for your professional and beautiful production, I've enjoyed a few hours on the Skald work and even as a Jesus follower the quality of this material is just too valuable not to admire & savor.
So hauntingly beautiful, that I memorized this song.
Understanding the runes is what makes this so magical the words are deeper then the lyrics or what the English translations of the runes say when it can't come up with English translations being wrong because that rune doesnt have a current translation for that rune it gets deeper.
And its beautiful only if you fully understand the runes.
Btw its elder futhark look it up read it learn it then rewatch this video and tell me you cant cry. It really is magical.
More magical to the vitki
Actually, even English words retain their meaning. Too bad most people don’t check etymology anymore.
Where did she learn to speak old norse and she sings! Shes so talanted .. no one can sing the old norse like her im really in love with her
Her pronounciation is not very good, honestly. Not saying that to be mean, but if you are interested in learning runes and how to pronounce their names, you will do better if you look up some proper guides :)
@@EvelinaNinudottir I agree, but I think it’s because she sings old Norse mixed with the Icelandic pronunciation. Which they mentioned in the description.
im trying to memorize this and get the pronunciations right. I WANT TO KNOW THIS
Well, if you want the right pronunciation, good luck with that, because the pronunciation used by the singer is veeery messed up
this song actually really makes me want to learn reading and understanding runes XD
@@KrillWhisperer It's actually pretty easy. I taught myself Elder Furthark when i was 13 I think bc i was learnin more about my heritage
That's why I'm here lel
Well norce is hard to learn let me tell you that ... xD
having 4 runic tattoos on me, i’m actually pretty happy to see that they’re accurate lol
C'est juste magnifique !!! Un vrai voyage dans l'espace et la beauté infinie ! 😍💖
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this is amazing honestly your channel makes me want to learn a new language ♥ your awesome keep up the amazing work
I was thinking the same 😂 need to rediscover long lost roots
How can we learn this language
@@ahmadalkaabneh7475 Old Norse is pretty much dead as a spoken language, mostly used in the Eddas and in song, but modern-day Icelandic is the closest language to Old Norse. So I suggest getting into Icelandic if you're really that determined. But I will warn you, it's one of the top 10 hardest languages to learn.
Spirit of the history
Its simple. I see SKÀLD, i click.
Love the videos💚. Keep up the good work
This is basically the badass version of the alphabet song
G, X were used with the same rune (Gebo) Therefore Gebo could mean either G or X.
V, W were one rune. (Wunjo)
Example; Vodka (English) Wodka (German) V and W is pronounced as the same. German transcriptions of slavic words are written with W in german, while being written with V in english.
Runes (the pronunciation and spelling) varied with the different germanic cultures and locations.
German and English originate from the same proto-germanic language.
This is why there are many similarities between these two languages.
Finally I know this song about .. is beautiful
Thank you for your translation!
Ikr😂
This song is a Runic Abecedary literaly hashahsasa
It goes beyond that...
Love this ❤️
I look forward to the day I'll see my ancestors in Valhalla 🇩🇰
You and I both brother
From Norway
We'll have to die in battle or by suicide (pretty sure with a blade) but that's not a problem. Heill Óđinn!!
@@svefnhnuturthorgeirsson you can go to Valhalla even if you don't fight in battle, if Óðinn knows that you're a valuable fighter, he will choose you, after all he's not called a wise wanderer for nothing y'know?
@@YamiLunaria Yeah but the most agreed upon the thing of all Norse mythology is that you cant go to Valhalla unless you die in battle
Good Lord I love this
Ottimo lavoro di traduzione e spiegazioni del testo complimenti 👍👍👍
Ti ringrazio molto ☺️
Beautiful ❤️
This is great bro. 😎🍿
Great Song to listening while learning the futhark runes and the english futhark runes.
AMAZING
Gänsehaut ❤️❤️❤️
goosebumps meijt
I might not speak that language but it’s a good song
When you find out you’re 6% Norwegian and 18% Irish
Elder Futhark is purely Germanic my boi. The Irish still had some of their own cool Gaelic/Celtic shit goin on tho
What do you mean by "purely Germanic"? If you mean it was made and used exclusively by the Germanics, this is not true. Futhark is almost certainly based and developed from Italic writing systems, especially Etruscan alphabet :en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_alphabet#Letters
These writing systems subsequently traveled to Northern Europe on the Amber Road, where they were re-adapted to Old Norse dialect.
@@FlamSparks Actually that's up for debate:
european-origins.com/2020/08/18/elder-futhark/
I just meant that the Elder Futhark writing system itself was purely Germanic because no other culture used it. Sure, Futhark could've been inspired from Estruscan or Phoenician sources, but it's set as a different writing system altogether for a reason. But hell, if you want to argue about the originality of the writing systems, we could go all the way back to cuneiform script from ancient Mesopotamia.
@@svefnhnuturthorgeirsson As a university student of Germanic philology, I can tell you that the debate follows mainly 3 hypothesis (Greek, Latin, and Etruscan origin), but the Etruscan origin is by far the most credited. I was simply arguing the "purely" definition you gave because it's not very historically accurate.
@@FlamSparks Like I said though, I meant "purely" as the Germanics were the only people to use Futhark. I didn't mean to say that the origin itself was purely Germanic as in they just went "Hey, you know what? Let's make a fuckin alphabet." Lol cuz as far as I know, cuneiform is the only writing system that's thought to be completely original and even then, I feel it has some origins in cave paintings and such.
Really beautiful language
Thank you for that beautiful video, great work! ❤️🔥
But also I should say that Old Norse should be written by younger futhark. 😊
So cool its relaxed
For me, this music will be great for Dnd.
YEAAAAAAAAAH 😍😍😍😍😍😍
Skald should do a collab with Blackbriar.
Also great translating
SKALD!
Grazie mille Anna! Non solo hai fatto un lavorone ma e decisamente ben fatto e tutto molto chiaro! Well Done! ;)
See ya at the valhalla shield maiden! :P
Grazie a te, mi fa molto piacere che tu abbia apprezzato così tanto ☺️
@@FlamSparks moltissimo!
Vorrei inoltre consigliarti una canzone intitolata "the best is yet to come" a me molto cara in quanto risale ad un gioco della mia infanzia, Metal gear solid 1.
E cantata tutta in gaelico antico e non riesco a trovare una traduzione come si deve quà su YT.
Magari può interessarti... ;)
@@erikthewolfson9192 beh, con il gaelico, purtroppo non ti posso aiutare, dato che non ha alcuna correlazione con le lingue nordiche. Ma se vuoi, su questo sito è presente una traduzione in inglese: lyricstranslate.com/en/best-yet-come-best-yet-come.html
Episch.
Die Musik meiner Seele.
Melodie meines Herzens.
Bin . . . . zuhause.
I was wondering if anyone has the music sheets for Skáld songs, especially for Níu. I'm unable to find it anywhere though, but if you have letter notes for the vocals it would be great!
Great video! Amazing song! What are the guys in the background saying? It doesn’t all sound like the first two bits at the beginning of the video.
YEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Transfixed to Yggdrasil by Gungnir for 9 days and nights this wisdom was gained by the father of the slain. For the rest of us, we have this song.
Nice music
Everyone gangster until the warriors across the field start chanting their alphabet
J'adore ce sont
Great thank you for support!✊😎🇺🇦
I did rune yoga so this is extra potent
Learn the futhark with skàld
i ƿould say modern day version of Wunjo ᚹ is Ƿ/Ꝩ Wynn & Vend
Yeah that'd be the Old Norse or Saxon way
May i know what this song symbolizes about because it is really soothing to hear. A lot of composure💓
Did you read the description?
@@FlamSparks , ti piacciono i doppiatori internazionali?
Its about the Elder Fruthark alphabet
It's about runes elder futhark
This whole song is based of a poem from long ago
I dont know for you but after listening this music i have the Impression to be a Part Viking
Uoooo
All these amazing explanations and I'm just sitting here, asking my Norwegian Forest Cat if he can feel the song in his DNA..... He said he can 🙂
It's Icelandic
@@draumafevari thank you
@@areefakhan8032 but maybe he's an Icelandic forest cat
Great job! Reading the translation though, I still don't understand. What are Witolf, Vitkar, Willharm, Swarthead? Names of people or places?
I think they're runes
Look it up, guys.
The whole text, apart from Runes, is an old Norse poem Völuspá hin skamma, can be found in Poetic Edda and Gylfaginning by Snorri Sturluson
Vitkar is a sorcerer or magician while the other 3 are mythical places like Valhalla
In molte vite, fui molta gente: dal sole al ghiaccio. In una di queste appartenni al popolo di Odino.
I listen to this while watching Vikings or playing God Of War.
Someone should make an hour long version of this? Please, & thanks in advance!
loop button lol?
@@deutschegeschichte4972 ikr
Imagine if an alphabet song was this freaking cool
oh wait
Me encanta me pone los pelos de punta💪🌔🌞🌖👍
reject humanity return to viking
i guess the lyrics make sense now since the song is called Rún
I have a question. What language do you use to get your translation? Is it Icelandic?
What do you mean by that?
@@FlamSparks Like how do you get it from norse runes to English? I'm curious on how your process works
I study Old Norse, I translate it to English
Most people in the Scandinavian countries gets to learn the alphabet in school. It’s part of our education. Not everyone focuses or remember it though. But if there we are interested we can always continue to learn about it. Some words are very similar to the language we have today. So we can understand some of the words in the song even without reading or translating them. But of course, if someone doesn’t understand the Scandinavian languages it might be more difficult and requires more effort.
How can we learn this language please? Or from where and whats the name of it
The language is Old Norse. As to how to learn it, that's a tricky question. University would definitely be the best option, probably accompanied by the study of other Nordic languages
@@FlamSparks thank you so much
i huuuu finaly i am the first person to comment in a vídeo !!!
What language is this it's beautiful 😍
Old Norse... mispronounced
Before watching this video, I thought "Mannaz, Lagus" was hana saku.
Me when i finished building my ikea table
Is that song in Sweden
Yayyyy perfect !! Elder futhark language !! 🤟🔥🔥
Elder Futhark is not a language...
why are these letters so similar to orkhon inscriptions of gokturk people in central asia??
Sorry but what are there signs under lyrics?
"under"?
Anybody explain its meaning
Who are after bheemla nayak thaman anna bgm
As it is undhu bayya...🤣🤣
Complimenti, hai le palle ragazzo.
Pardon?
@@FlamSparks Nella traduzione
@lexmanu perché? 😂
Deve essere stato difficile tradurre sta canzone
Is this a Ukranian band? Something about this song just motivates me and gives me strength. Beautiful voice as well!
They're French
Sadly, it seems its the Wrong Set of Runes for old Norse. You are using the Elder Futhark, the younger Futhark would be more fitting here. I know its harder to Read but prolly more accurate. You are also using the Rune Uruz for the V sound wich is wrong if i recall right. Wunjo would be the right Rune here i believe.
I know, but since this whole song is about Elder Fuþark, I decided to go for that set instead
@@FlamSparks Yeah that surprised me a bit TBH. An old Norse Song about Elder Futhark :D But its still one of my favourites of the Band.
Yeah, the group doesn't seem to be so studied in Old Norse, they often come up with weird things (from grammar to pronunciation) x)
Hmm you think Wunjo would be the right rune for V? I'm quite honestly not sure, tbh....
@@FlamSparks It is the closest Sound to V in my humble Opinion. But yeah Skald also uses very Fantasy costumes. They are a bit more out to please the Eye than being historicly correct.
Well, it's not actually true that a W's sound is always a /v/, just think how it's pronounced in English. /u/ and /v/ have very borderline sounds, and in fact they share a common development in the history of many languages. F, U, V, Y and W were all written with a same letter in the Phoenician alphabet, which is one of the oldest and most influential alphabets in the European history. In Latin, the letter V originally indicated the sound /u/, while later on it came to indicate both /u/ and /v/. In phonetics, [w] corresponds neither to /u/ nor /v/: while [u] is a vowel and [v] a consonant, [w] is a semivowel. Its ambiguous nature explains why its sound keeps shifting between /u/ and /v/, and also shows why these two sounds keep exchanging place one with the other throughout the history of so many languages. Most info we have about the rune Wunjo comes from its Fuþorc descendant Wynn, which most surely had the sound of semivowel [w], so I would tend to attach the same sound to Proto-Norse. This being said, it's true that Old Norse might have originally used the letter V to indicate the sound /w/, since the sound /v/ came later (especially from intervocalic /b/) and Old Norse didn't use the letter W. So you might be right on that.
May I know what language is that coz I want to learn
And which country using that language too
Old Norse. It's a dead language, very close in grammar to Icelandic and Faroese, but rather different in pronunciation.
FlamSparks thanks you.Can you give me way that I can learn that language
@@zacheryportgas2836 Sorry, but I studied it mostly on Swedish books, so I can't help you on that
@@zacheryportgas2836 the youtuber and scholar Jackson Crawford ( czcams.com/channels/XCxNFxw6iq-Mh4uIjYvufg.html ) has an amazing CZcams channel that helps you with the pronunciations among loads of other things relating to the Old Norse and there beliefs. Go check him out he's ace
OMG. This woman is a goddess. Please, where can I find such beauty?
🇫🇷
What language is this
Old Norse
@@FlamSparks thank you
neat, but wat about the rest of the lyrics in between the runes?
What about it?
@@FlamSparks I spent like an hour, maybe an hour and a half, trying to translate the lyrics that aren't runes, and I couldn't text one of the letters on this android so that made it harder
@@hajagameznstuff6956 read the very first line of the description
Everything except Kenaz. Ulcer is the closest translation but thats no exactly what it means. It is hard to explain. Good job tho
She's beautiful ❤
I was wondering what kind if dialect it was until I came here aha
I'm curious about the name of the language they sing in. I don't know it it's called Norse or if it's something else.
It's Old Norse
@@FlamSparks Thank you.
Ās, perpo, týr?
No other alphabet song is better than this one😅😅
i came to Leason after bheamla nayak movie bgm
Is this the Norse equivalent of the "Alphabet Song" in English?
What means svarthöfdi ???
"Black head". It's the person/creature from whom wizards descend. I'm not fully sure, but I think it is not named anywhere else in Old Norse texts.
Thank you soo much I couldn't find this word anywhere I was soo curious
YW ú.ú
is this still a language? and wich languange is it?
This is old norse, an old language spoken in Scandinavia in the middle age. The closest thing to it is icelandic.
I can Sing this song without the translation
What language is this??
Old Norse
@@FlamSparks new thumbnail and new name?
@@asterius6 what for?
I really want to sing this but im having trouble with the different language 😅. Does anyone know how to pronounce the circle with a tail that has a line in it? I’m sorry I can’t describe it better.
You mean....the ð?
FlamSparks yes! What is that?
That's the th-sound in "think", while þ is the th-sound in "though" [logic of English writing system...]. Anyway, just be aware that the pronunciation of this group's members (especially the lady) of Old Norse is extremely *bad.*
FlamSparks thank you so much!
@@FlamSparks can you say what the right pronunciation is? It would help me a lot...