Krummi Svaf í Klettagjá - Svavar Knútur, Antonio Bexiga and Martin Sued - Live in BOTA Lisbon 2022

Icelandic singer songwriter Svavar Knútur, Portuguese Viola Campanesa artist Antonio Bexiga and Argentinian Bandoneon master Martin Sued, play a new song to a classical Icelandic Folk poem, "Krummi svaf í klettagjá" (The raven slept in a rocky canyon) at the BOTA art house in Lisbon in october 2022.
It was a totally impromptu performance, where Svavar Knútur asked his two fellow artists to join him on the song, that he had composed to the old folk poem, as an act of defiance to the grotesque viking exploitation of Icelandic traditional poetry.
The poem is a harsh but empathetic story of a raven, waking up in the early morning to try to find some morsel to eat, flying over the fields and farms.
Lyrics here:
Krummi svaf í klettagjá,
kaldri vetrarnóttu á.
Verður margt að meini.
Fyrr en dagur fagur rann
freðið nefið dregur hann
undan stórum steini.
Á sér krummi ýfði stél,
einnig brýndi gogginn vel,
flaug úr fjallagjótum.
Lítur yfir byggð og bú,
á bæjum fyrr en vakna hjú,
veifar vængjum skjótum.
Sálaður á síðu lá
sauður feitur garði hjá,
fyrrum frár á velli.
Krunk, krunk, nafnar, komið hér,
krunk, krunk því oss búin er,
krás á köldu svelli.
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