Savage Daughter
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- čas přidán 8. 04. 2009
- Wyndreth Berginsdottir performing her iconic "Savage Daughter" for me outside the hall at Haire Affaire of the Heart. Recorded on March 28, 2009 using a Flip Video camcorder.
Karen L U Kahan/Wyndreth Berginsdottir "My Mother's Savage Daughter" c. 1990 Karen L. Unrein (Kahan)
Hi, folks! Just stopped by and want to thank every one of you for your support and your kind words.
1) As most of my writing in the SCA is based upon viking age cultures and the style of recreated oral traditions, I do a lot of that, yes.
Thank you for spreading such love into the world.
I'm a man and I find your song beautifully cutting, and important.
As if my own mother who has always been like a scarred mother bear, always facing those who might harm her cubs, is singing it herself.
I hope that if I were to sing it, that I wouldn't be seen as stepping into a territory that isn't mine.
Much love and respect to you.
Thankyou so much 🙏🏼💕
Sending you so much love and thanks for sharing your amazing song. It sings to the souls of so many people. After hearing all the controversy surrounding a specific cover, I had searched out the original version and heard the beauty and raw emotion in your voice. Thank you for this gift and for your above comment, which I will share with anyone who is looking for information about this song. 💖
Thank you so much. I just now found this song tonight, and I think I found my new anthem. I’m a fellow SCA member, so I don’t know why it was so long before I found this!
I felt this is my bones. The strength, power and suffering that connects us all is in this powerful song. Thank you.
I hope Wyndreth gets the proper credit for this beautiful song she created
Ah but Wyndreth covered this song. It is an old Irish folk song brought back to prominence by Sarah Hester Ross.
@@Leonardhbrown That is not correct at all. This is not an old irish folk song (as some claim) or an old indigienous american folk song (as other claim) or any of that. This song was written by Wyndreth Berginsdottir (a.k.a. Karen Kahan). It's done in a Celtic style and clearly has Celtic influences but it is 100% a modern song.
@@Leonardhbrown Wyndreth wrote this song in 1990. This is her song. Sarah Hester Ross covered it unethically and illegally.
Shayla, the lady singing the song IS Wyndreth. Shava recorded Wyndreth singing her own song.
Me too
This is The Original. Accept no substitutes.
This^^^
Not substitute. Echoes.
Absolutely correct. Blessed be.
I have heard other women singing this song so beautifully, but I think this is the best version. The other versions are merely beautiful while the way this is sung reflects it's message. She gets louder and louder until she is practically screaming...thus saying, "I will not be silenced!"
Yes. It’s a song of rebellion...
Doesn’t hurt she is the one who wrote and originally performed it.
That's because this is the woman who wrote the song in the first place
I make sure to leave a comment on any video that doesn’t give her credit for her well deserved work of Art.
She CREATED this song. She deserves credit,
@Kim Bim No, she's right. This is the original writer and artist. It has been stolen by other artists and last I heard there was still a lawsuit pending.
You can hear the passion and power in her voice...this song is not supposed to be sung prettily, it is supposed to be sung savagely...as she does. And I'm sure we can all feel it resonate with our core. It makes me wanna cry AND shriek with exhilaration at the same time
me too. Everytime makes me cry a lot and savage. I dont know why.
I found myself with a lump in the throat, I guess it's bc all the times we wanted to say something but were silenced, it's the rage and fury repressed and disguised as sadness. Its very empowering, like an himn that resonantes trough our deepest self and call us to wake UP.
Agree, with raw strength and fire
That’s sooo true. I feel the song deeply
I agrée to a point, my only addition would be that some don’t have a chest voice, if you care to know what my voice is like look at the first Snow White when she sings. But this song still comes out of me with the same *passion* even if it’s not a lower register that can make the tougher sounds (which to me is it’s own pretty if that makes sense)
I know why I cry. I am the savage my mother was never allowed to be.
Oof. You've hit the nail on the head.
Yes. I'm the same, and my mother was the same, and my daughter is the same. A chain of increasing fierceness and authenticity.
Me too
I'm crying so much as i listen to this song, i have no idea why. And then, i saw your comment and it made so much sense to me. Thank you. I stand with you. Shall we forever remain wild for the one's before us who couldn't.
@@an.attaons yes
This makes me want to go out and fight everything wrong with the world. Fantastic song and I love the way it's sung here.
This song is not met to be pretty and delicate. This is a war song.
It's only her that sings it right
Well she wrote it so yeah lol
i'd hope she's the best, since its her song
You go and fight my friend! ✊🏾👊🏽
I think this song is for all ancient cultures around the world. Turkic, Nordic, Celtic, Indigenous and for all other strong warrior woman who are oppressed by modern world's beliefs. It just touches somewhere in your soul you didn't know you had.
Although our religion, language, race and belief are different, the souls behind our wild hearts are firmly connected to each other ❤
Yessss thank you for this comment
As a Turkic i can approve it.
@@kubramerde4974 burada da Türk buldum ya ölsem de gam yemem.
@@ingweking8748 :)
when you are Irish and this song kinda makes you want to cry but you don’t know why
Very true my friend
yess. I literally can’t even hold the tears in . You hear your ancestors singing to you with every tone.
Same tho????
same, it makes me so emotional and i don't know why
I'm not Irish but I felt it in my heart, couldn't hold the tears, beautiful song
Lyrics =)
Chorus (below)
I am my mother's savage daughter,
the one who runs barefoot cursing sharp stones.
I am my mother's savage daughter,
I will not cut my hair, I will not lower my voice.
My mother's child is a savage,
She looks for her omens in the colors of stones,
In the faces of cats, in the fall of feathers,
In the dancing of fire and the curve of old bones.
(Repeat Chorus)
My mother's child dances in darkness,
And sings heathen songs by the light of the moon,
And watches the stars and renames the planets,
And dreams she can reach them with a song and a broom.
(Repeat Chorus)
My mother's child curses too loud and too often,
My mother's child laughs too hard and too long,
And howls at the moon and sleeps in ditches,
And clumsily raises her voice in this song.
(Repeat Chorus)
Now we all are brought forth out of darkness and water,
Brought into this world through blood and through pain,
And deep in our bones, the old songs are wakened,
So sing them with voices of thunder and rain.
(Repeat as new chorus three times, below)
We are our mother's savage daughters,
The ones who run barefoot cursing sharp stones.
We are our mother's savage daughters,
We will not cut our hair, We will not lower our...(x2) voice (last time).
Thanks you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
BLESS. YOUR. SOUL!
🙌❤❤❤❤❤❤🙌
🧡🧡🧡
Thank you 💜
Finally, the original!!! THIS is the version that my spirit resonates with. A battle hymn, a song of reclamation and pride, an ode to the ancestors.
Absolutely epic!!!
Not the original. The original is Navajo.
I always wonder if Wyndreth knows how far her song has spread. How I've heard it at every Calontir event I've been to, and if I hear it anywhere else, NOT sung in the key of Army (as we say) I cringe because you can't sing this dainty. You've gotta sing it like a Valykrie gettting ready to ride; like you've got no more time for bullshit and you'll not be stopped today. I have the lyrics taped on the inside of my cabinet at work and I've hummed it a few times during instances of weakness. Thank you Wyndreth
I’ve heard it here many a time in the West Kingdom. ❤️
Amen!!! I hear it here in Gleann Ahbann! Hoping I still hear it in Meridies when my family moves.
so true!!
It's sung out of sad pain, seeing how much colonial mofos destroyed your culture. I always draw a comparison between the native Gael tribes, & American Indigenous, except that those of Gaelic extraction "fit in" visually now.
The anger in her voice needs to be heard all over the U.S. right about now. Our own people are acting like an invasionary force.
This is the way it always need to be sang. Raw and strong.
I got really teary eyed listening to this. Its very powerful and I can feel it rattling my soul.
I can’t sing well enough to do justice. I will try to play it on my violin and let it sing for me 😁
this is the kind of song that wraps around souls and awakens something ancient in its listeners. the kind of song that diminishes cultural boarders, that bonds and empowers women across countries and generations. thank you Wyndreth for this masterpiece. my love for it grows more with every listen.
It’s honestly amazing how well this song has aged. Timeless lyrics that are still applicable today. It could have only come from above. Thank you for keeping your heart and spirit open to have received it. Dream big, daughters.
Obviously the new covers are aesthetically pleasing to listen to, but the raw emotion of the original version just sends shivers down my spine
shes the original?! Ma'am, im asking respectfully, can we sit around a bon fire and you sing songs for me to learn from? please?
No she’s not
She is the original song writer. Look it up and look at the date this was posted
TikTok has so many videos of this song (just not the original artist's) as a war cry for our Native sisters, fighting against the kidnappings and murders their people have been facing for 400+ years
@Marydancer33 it’s a song that transcends the bounds of a single culture. It reverberates through many young women, especially to Native women. The comment was thanking this artist for creating something that is felt to the core by many others, not just a single group. When something from your culture deeply impacts and touches someone from another, you know it has a higher place in this world. That’s what this song is. That is all
I love their usage of this song. No issues with that. I just with they gave credit and acknowledged the culture that this song comes from. It just feel like appropriation the way it's being used. And that wouldn't be ok if the roles were reversed...
@Marydancer33 I never said it wasn’t
@Marydancer33 it most certainly is not a viking song. It's a modern song, and it is not a song of the travellers known as vikings. It's a women's song.
@Marydancer33 I'm Danish, also a viking age reenactor of the kind who shows and teaches the history. It's not a viking song.
I am my mothers Savage son, my sister is her mother's Savage daughter, my grandfather fought for Ireland, our blood is Savage, fine song.
But the song is native american
I'm mexican but I feel this song in my soul. I want to cry.
Bolivian here, but feel you girl
Native and mexican i feel that
It's an anthem for us, all of us, strong women of all colors, bloodlines and creeds. May the Universe bless you sister. ❤
This song is sacred imo, it transcends the bounds of skin color, age, etc... so beautiful.
@@cedarwho7 not just women of color every woman whose culture has been oppressed and crushed the judeo Christian society ❤
i hate to say it but shes the best vs of this song there is. shes the only one who sings it right. means more since i found out my ancestors were celts and vikings.
She wrote it so of course she knows how it's meant to be sung
I don't hate to say it!
But I've only heard one or 2 others.
I heard this song on a tiktok, looked it up and found a very soft voice singing it and it just felt wrong. Then I saw the thumbnail for this video and clicked, and I am in full agreement.
LtlRed Hen I came the exact same way here!
Ingrid Stark the tiktok version isn’t stolen. The orignal creator sold the rights to the song and the girl from tiktok (sarah) bought the rights to cover the song and sell it but the original creator got mad about it so she lied about not selling the rights. Get your facts straight
@@isabellesoul13 you are wrong
Im Asian but still get goosebumps. Like even if I can't relate for heritage side, the message is clearly reach my soul😭 this is beautiful!
Same, I'm Latin American and somehow this song touched me in a deep way
Same I'm Filipina
Same I'm Filipina
@@fundyourfuture3008 same
the song was actually made with the thought of all cultures to resonate with! no need to worry about heritage here, we are all of the earth after all :]
My Viking and Celtic blood is calling to this in a way I had never known possible...
My beautiful daughter sang this song for me, as a surprise, at a recent bardic SCA event in the EK. I was almost on the floor in tears, as it was a surprise for me. Seeing this brought me to tears again. Thank you.
I also used to be SCA. I had to do a hard job there in a barony that none of the men would tackle. I’m, in my mind, feeling the heat of the fires, I’m swaying and dancing around the fire with my sisters in blood. I knew the woman most associated with this song did not write it, her work has no depth. This is a soul song. ❤
The author of the song is singing in this video. Her real name is Karen Kahan but writes Nordic/Viking era music under the name of Wyndreth Burginsdottir.
The origin of the song is neither Nordic or Viking. Navajo women has been singing this song for centuries.
I love this version of this song its my absolute favorite. You can feel the ancient power of it.
Made me cry. Deep and true. Better than any other version. Maybe because Wyndreth is the author and felt it all right from the soul. I went through the spectre of emotions from high, to low, to tiny and hyper. Made me feel something inside me, that I forgot it ever existed.
Fan-bloody-tastic! So much better than all those pretty young women singing sweetly. Honesty, power, and truth sung loud and proud. Thank you, Wyndreth! @ANGRBODA
This made me emotional.
I was quite the wild child, climbing trees, running barefoot, playing in the mud and singing and dancing as I liked.
My Mother hated my unladylike behavior, my Father laughed at my energy, he loved it.
I feel like it has a special different energy for us whos mothers didn't appreciate having savage daughters ❤️ adds another sort of feeling and I love it
Me too
me to
This is the first time I'm listening the original, and this hits me so so hard and deep. I used to think this song was just some gen z tiktoker song cause that was the first time i encountered this song. But this, wow, just wow. I've never been so touched by a song as a woman. Honestly got my eyes teary.
I am Mexican, but this song resonates throughout my body.
I just want to go back to that forest that I used to visit, and run freely with the wind.🍃
This is the song for all womens, mothers on the Mother Earth.
Love from Serbia
Why am I 12 years late for this masterpiece????
I feel like my life has gone to waste
Better late than never! Make the most of the present and do not mourn the past.
Same. I just heard it for the first time this month. And I'm an old lady named Karen just like Wyndreth! 😉
I cannot, and I emphasize CANNOT, express how this song, and Wyndreth Berginsdottir's exhultation of it, blows wild winds through my heart and soul.
My mother knows, and is moved by my SCA fighting. When I sung her this song, she cried. She said it described every woman in our family, as the women always carry the burdens and we are cursed for being strong willed My mother thanks you, I am always inspired and sing this in my mind as I train. My children sing this this song, and cut their hair when they say because "I'm your savage child, remember?"
We love you so much!
i have heard many others do a cover of this song, and not a single one have sung it with the same passion nor defiance as this one.
As an irish kid, my mom would sing me an irish diddy to get me to sleep, this takes me back to it and I might be crying now
This has become my personal anthem. I start each day with this mantra, which helps me stay strong in the face of adversity. We are warriors.
And we will not lower our voices.
I wish she could get to make a better quality version release so it can replace the stolen one. I love her strong voice
Not stolen recreated and asked for
There is another version of this with her singing along with drums and a few other women. This version has the soul of us women in it, raw, untamed
My toddlers heard this song and this morning woke up singing it. They’re one quarter jews, 1/4 Italian and half Puerto Rican. My heart melted knowing that they exist because of the strength of the mothers before them. I thank them for their sacrifice and promise that their daughters will know that they lived so we could. I AM my mothers savage daughter.
Best and only version to listen to... thank you, Wyndreth for bringing me another lullaby for daughter ;-)
This is the only version that grabs me by my guts.... I love it with all my heart🙏🕯️✨. Bright blessings to you mother's and sisters and daughters
I've left this link on every video of this copied song as her being the true owner.
My daughter and I sing this song (and other songs) together around our camp fires, deep in the forest where we are free and feel at home. Thank you, ma ~ words to our meaning, voice to our spirit and song for ourselves ~ such a tremendous gift you've given.
This song speaks to so many indigenous cultures ❤️❤️❤️ love it !!
I feel like it takes back a derogatory word for us and uses it to empower.
@@KirstenVDV I’m Irish/Norwegian/Japanese/Chinese/Russian (sorry thats a lot) but when I was little and I learned about the indigenous people it didint really matter to me, I’m in seventh grade and when our history teacher started speaking about the indigenous people it made me cry, you guys are so brave and empowering, you have such a nice connection and I have so much respect for you guys, I cried because I felt empathy, I felt your pain, being Americanized and turned into something your not, how terrible, when I become a mother I wish to raise my child to be grateful and to remember that the indigenous people were here first and they were brave people who fought all they could....
@@kayleemoon._6045 thank you for your words and for hearing and remembering our story. You're a wonderful person. It means more than you know 🥰 never apologize for saying who you are. My great great great uncle, Gabriel Dumont went to war to fight for our rights to practice our way of life. I continue that fight every day by restoring that culture and knowledge in my family line. 💕
@@kayleemoon._6045 thank u
Part of this song is played alot on tiktok..Mostly Indigenous/Native women use the sound. Finally, I get to see the person behind the lyrics after someone mentioned her name! Great song! Beautifully written
This is all over social media and never knew where it had come from! It's being used for empowerment wonderfully. Thank you.
The creator of Savage Daughter ❤
This feels like a battle song and I freaking love it. Especially the way you sing it. Dang.
I'm proud to call myself a savage daughter! :) I grew up listening to her sing this song I'm Rosanore of Redthorn's daughter to be exact, this song will never grow tired for me because it describes me so well :D
This song, she wrote, isnt for any specific culture or bloodline. Its for Empowerment. Its for you. Take it with you and your life. Be more than what "They" want you to be
I would love to hear this song sung around a campfire. This is how our ancestors shared history and stories.
This gives me so much courage. The way she sings it like a battle anthem puts strength into my bones
Never cried so hard over a song. Blessed be!
Got shivers, your voice is beautiful
I want to scream this at the top of my lungs as I run into battle. Absolutely incredible.
I remember I was at a camping event for the kingdom im a part of and we sung this during a feast, my grandmother actually showed me this exact video back then.
Thank you for this magic, timeless Crone. This a lullaby for my soul.
This is the only real version and I hope to be her when I'm grown
Be proud of who and what you are and never let anybody try to tell you different. I love how she smiles as she sings this. This song is her. Thank you so much for sharing this.
So glad to find the original- this is how this song should be song. It’s perfect!
Oh my gosh i love this! I'm scottish and irish and this song speaks to me. Tis completely beautiful. Love how it's a Capella too. I can just hear the music that would go with it in my head. Stunning.
It calls to my Irish roots. T.D.
I am very glad I followed your comment on a cover of this song! I'd prefer to support HER rather than commercial artists on works like this(not commercial works created to be sung by record company artists)
This song wraps around me like a blanket, reminding me of what I've been and what I could be, reminding me that I am not alone, reminding me what it's like to dance barefoot over ice or to sit atop mountaintops watching the midnight sun. These comments show me that I'm not alone, that I've never been alone. Thank you so much for making this, Wyndreth. I'll carry it in my heart gratefully forever.
Brilliant. Beautiful in its earthiness. Savage Daughter rightfully has a wide audience. Sing on!
As beautiful and as moving as the versions of other singers are, the rawness of the unedited voice of this woman, who created the song, is something else entirely.
Thank you to the author of this gem of a song!
And thank you for making this available, even if it took a bit of searching to find it amidst the plethora of covers.
This is by far the best version of this...being the original version and the way she sings it is just fantastic. I think it should churn our souls and bring up remnants of the old ways. My daughter absolutely loves this song and is a little disappointed when she doesn't hear this version. I also love how most who attempt to cover the song leave out the last verse of sleeping in ditches and clumsily raising their voice.
This song has intoxicated my being! Thank you for writing/singing this song for all of us to embrace!
One thing that so admirable about this new generation is they give credit where credit is deserved. So grateful people mentioned this beautiful soul’s name as the original singer of this song. Amazing no other rendition can compare. Chills and tears ❤️.
I have been singing and playing this for my daughter since she was a few hours old. She’s a year old and still loves it.
This song is so moving. My 5 year old daughter is singing it all the time! Thank you for such strong poetry!
I'd never heard this before. Just discovered the song through a cover on TikTok (of all places!). Came looking for the full version (and original). I love it. I'm a guy, but I agree 100% with the lyrics. Stand strong, and stay savage! Such a beautiful and empowering song for women.
Thank you Wyndreth for creating this beautiful masterpiece. I am going to listen to this song for the rest of my days! I hope you are doing well. Blessed be!
I love this song, it touched my heart. “I am an Inca Woman warrior, rebellious but loving, living heaven on earth”
This song gives me so much strength, empowers my soul.
Thank you for the inspiration.❤️🇨🇦
Found this 15 years later and im.in love.
Thank you Wyndreth for the creation of this song. I love the raw enotion that comes through as you sing this song.
This song has been my personal anthem for many years as it spoke to me the first time I heard it.
I raise my voice in song for my female ancestors who were murdered for being savages. I am the savage woman they were not allowed to be.
Solpayki!
Me: a boy
Also me: I'm my mother's savage daughter....🔥
i believe gender does not matter. if you feel the song fits, it fits.
Love this ❤ 🔥
This song transends gender, ethnicity and religion its very epic and i adore it .
(An enby, mixed, witch lol)
No! This is a natural woman’s story and being. This is not for men.
This song is for women. This is our story and our journey. Men have no place in this song. Stop taking from women and find your own story. Read the artist’s words in the pinned comment. I will not lower my voice to any man taking my words!
Powerful and she sings it with passion. What a beautiful gift she has shared with us.
This is my favorite version of this song. Wish it was the first version when searching for it!
I can't get this song out of my head, especially her original version (this one). Thank you so much! Blessed be and Aho
Since I'm Swedish I'll blame my love for this song on my viking ancestor
My ancestors led me here. Thank you. I love it and can’t stop singing it.
I wish my mother was someone like you Wyndreth, this way this song would sound more logically to me, but, I do believe that my real mother exists and I'm my mother's savage daughter 👸
A song timeless like the ages.....with the perfect delivery by Wyndreth.
There aren't words for how moving this is. Thank you.
I’ve heard so many versions of this song, but this is the first time it’s resonated with me. Thank you for singing this so savagely and pure.
She wrote the song ☺️
I am one of five savage daughters. I felt this deep in my bones.
Thank you great lady.
Love the roughness and brogue in your voice. It's absolutely beautiful! Thank you for your performance!
Ya know, I first heard this song it was nice and soft from Sarah Hester Ross. But I knew there was the origin to the song, just hearing it this was made years before than this video that Sarah made.
There was something not connecting at all in the song, so I went and looked for the original.
I sang it just like this on my own. I do not know but as a musician I could just tell it is supposed to be like 1:35 at some parts I added in the grit as I call it in my voice. It sounded better, when the grit was added. I am new at singing like this so I need to keep practicing. Plus the nice soft singing is not meant for my singing voice. I have no privacy at home to belt it out everyone says to shut up XD
I need to find time to sing this all alone and get better at it.
I am glad that I was right!
Wyndreth! I still have her cassette tape from when I saw her at a tourney in ND!
I have heard many other versions of this song but her original will always be my favorite!
This song is so touching....She is brilliant....got goosebumps just listening to her...She is extremely Blessed.
Here from tik tok, this song feels like a war cry! I hope you get the recognition for this masterpiece x
This is my favorite version. I just picture a bunch of women screaming this at the top of their lungs!
This is one of favorite soangs and to see the women all standing side by side singing it around a camp fire is awe struck. Yes Lilies Calontir women .
I just heard this song this morning covered by another woman and I felt it so deep that I had to know who wrote it. In my search I discovered how many women have recorded it, women from all over have felt its power, but was sad to keep reading that credit was not given to the beautiful soul that gave birth to it. I am delighted to have found and listened to the original and by far, this is my favorite. It's raw and rough cut, yet beautiful and strong.
My new soul sister, I thank you for sharing this powerful song with us. You are awesome.
Lol, You my lady, even remind me of a combination of my mother and myself.
We are all related by our feminine powers, so I will call you sister. ♡
This hits me for a different reason. I used to get made fun of for how loud I spoke and how loud my laugh was. I spent a lot of time as a child trying to disappear and not be noticed, so now I'm scared of not being heard just like then. I just feel so empowered by this song
Glad to find the original, I really want to cover this song but I want to do it right.