Í Gøtu ein dag har hendi eitt undur, ei fyrr var tað sæð: Tað skramblar sum heglingsæl - luftin var klár (heglingsæl) tað ýlur av stormi - tó ei rørdist hár, og klettarnir spreingjast, sum snarljós teir traff. Øll Gøta var paff, øll Gøta var paff. Ei undur var í: Í Tróndargjógv undir Borðoyarlíð lá Tróndur og rembdist, hann spenti so fast, (at Trøllkonufingur) í liðinum brast. Tó hvat gjørdi Tróndur tá mátturin sveik? Hann gandaði Geyta í grøvini lá, so Geyti stóð hjá, so Geyti stóð hjá. Teir heilsaðust so. Hoyr olmussudýrið, mær tørvar eitt boð. Eg svav her so leingi, eg sigi tær satt, eg veit ikki hvussu í Føroyum (er) statt. Og tað gekk ein tíð, (og Geyti kom) aftur í Borðoyarlíð. "...og alt letur skatt, og mjøður er bannaður - (og) jú tað er satt. Tað mesta av jørðini fór undir kong, fór undir kong." - Tá suffaði Tróndur: "So aftur í song! - Men sig hvat ger tingið. Nú statt ei og bín!" "Jú, teir selja grýn! Jú, teir selja grýn." Í Gøtu ein dag
I've listened to this song many times, but today I saw the video pop up for the first time. I see that Heri Joensen was involved in translating the lyrics. Does he have any other involvement with Xperiment?
Not to our knowledge. We were doing a film project with him around the same time so we asked him if he would do the translation as we knew his faroese and english were excellent. I believe he once mentioned in a conversation we had and I quote, that he was a "language nerd" :).
Ouvir a melodia juntamente com as vozes já é uma experiência fantástica, depois que obtive a tradução fiquei muito emocionada. A cultura ancestral das Ilhas Faroe é simplesmente fascinante. Amor eterno!
@@muldrothamadness the dude in this vid is Colombian not Faroese. It is cool that he sings in the choir, but by your logic I could go to any random country, sing songs in their language and then transform into their ethnicity. Come on Kyle bro
@@Ceti2 My point was if you're born and raised in a place you are apart of that culture regardless of skin colour. Don't read too much between the lines. Did not know he was Columbian though, that's really cool.
For anyone interested, this ballad was first published in 1915 in a Faroese nationalist newspaper - it is about the Viking-Age character Tróndur waking from the dead, sending his friend Geyti to see what the situation was in the islands, and Geyti reports to him how things have become (in the early 1900s), and the Viking-Age Tróndur is left disappointed. In other words, the text signifies the author's disappointments with the current society of the Faroes at the time and yearns for a return to a romanticised past.
Thanks. I was scrolling through the comments to find the explanation for the video. But with those young people keeping the dance alive around the fire, he should not return disappointed.
Lol 11.months ago i made a comment saying how it sounds like this poor dude woke up in the 21st century not really knowing it takes place in the 20th and thinking it takes place during his time
Det her er vel så norsk det kan bli,alle land vest for Norge var jo norsk en gang,men vi tapte i Haag mot Danmark etter Napolionkrigen. Vi fulgte Danmark,vi fikk betale for det!
aer ye tagkc kjanter maenr taligc in yn songr...fantasti bles fra det songr aer godet.a big thanks sounds similar to my tounge in your song.....fantastic thankyou for such a great song.milluertii!honourable thanks
If I didn't read the subtitles, this would've been pretty intimidating story about some ancient wizard preparing for battle to avenge himself. Instead, he was hit hard by civic development and grain-based economy. And he wasn't even furious, he was just disappointed, as he and his friend hung their head low. He and his friend would likely carve strongly-worded runestones to their local jarl about it.
Being this a Faroese nationalist song written around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, it sees two legendary figures from the isles' tales and history frowning upon how low their Country fell through the ages, since the advent of Christianity, especially Trondur (the wizard) who was the one that in the year 1000 cursed the christian missionaries that came to convert the Farœ Islands, summoning a storm and sinking their fleet.
