The sheet music to this tune and many others are in my book Norþhærpe - How To Play Anglo-Saxon, Viking & Germanic Lyres + 80 Tunes www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09NGXZMDW
Reminds me of the time edward and I were drinking an ale when I snuck his seax from it's sheath and hid it up my sleeve. He was looking for it all next day😂
I see myself on my white horse in green and my gold crown on top of the cliff top and the sea below awaiting the warriors return . A protector of the realm and a lover of the woods 💜
I love the traditional anglo-saxon music. It speaks to an old song that sleeps within me. Then I hear this and feel something awaken. It still needs something to wake the old spirits, but once awaken, they speak the old stories!
Are you kidding? Modern DNA evidence shows us the English people are more Brythonic than Germanic. The English are only around 10-30% Saxon. The Saxons ruled over us, but they didn't replace us.
Ken Follett's The Evening And The Morning brings me here. That timetraveller's experience is brilliantly backed up by this soundtrack that sets authentic atmosphere during moments of reading.
My soul dance integrates the past with the present, and what I am near to becoming. My memories are been mutating through my cells, through time, a bloody eternal love affair.
I've been playing early music for years, but mostly on early woodwinds. I'm hoping to branch out into some earlier areas, and am confused by all the types of lyres. Can you tell me the difference between a Saxon lyre and a Trossingen lyre. They look pretty similar.
Lyres while widely spread across southern Europe and the middle east in all shapes and sizes. In Northern Europe are only found in England, Germany, Netherland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway and in one design (with regional variations) suggesting a common origin. Of all the countries mentioned the German ones differ the most. Some are slightly different shaped and in the case of the Trossingen have a large soundbox with holes, giving it a louder volume.
Fantastic! Liked, subscribed and got the book. I'm a guitar player for many years but recently have had problems with the index finger on my fretting hand. I'm hoping switching to lyre will allow me to continue to play, otherwise it will be drums and flute 😄can you tell me please, is there a lyre you recommend for beginners and how many strings to have for the songs in the book? Many thanks
May I ask what strings and how exactly you were tuned for Wulf & Aedwacer? I own your book and I've tuned to Major G Hucbald's, but mine doesn't quite sound the same. I have a BrandonJohnLuthiery 7 string with metal strings.
Hi, thanks for buying the book, happy to answers any questions you have. Your tuning is correct, so I can't think what's going wrong. Is it the whole tune that sounds wrong or just part? Also do other tunes written in the major scale in the book, sound correct? The string type shouldnt matter, just the tuning. Across my vids I have used 3 sets of strings. The oldest vids I'm using flourocarbon strings tuned pretty high, usually around G. For the middle period I using gut strings, and recently I have changed to fairly low flourocarbon strings usually tuned somewhere around E Major.
@@Grendelcynn Frankly I'm unsure - I could just be slightly out of tune, I read further into your book and I was storing my instrument in another room that was cooler, and then playing it in a warm room. I noticed the sound would shift after an extended practice session. I'm also brand new to the instrument, so my attack could also be the issue. I did want to ask - given you respond so promptly, if I were to send you proof of purchase / pic of the book - is there any way I could get a scan? I'd love to put the tabs up on my computer screen so I can see it while I play, I have no way to keep the book upright and I struggle to read it flat on my table and play at the same time (I suck). Let me know, I can email you or if you use discord I'm happy to use that as well. Thanks - Dylan
@@dylparl6057 I don't own a scanner and the book is scattered all over a folder in individual pictures and pieces of text.... However why not just photo it with your phone (use the inbuilt scanner even) and save the jpgs in a folder. Then you can see them on your tab. Thats what I do, I have all the jpgs of the sheet music I have accumulated pover the years on my phone. I have a go to melody that uses all 6 strings. It's the first thing I play when I pick up my lyre. If it sounds good, I play on, if something sounds wrong I reach for my tuner.
I think heritage and culture are two completely different things..... It is part of our culture to force our culture on other countries, whether they want it or not, we did this to an unwilling world at sword, bayonet and musket point, for centuries, destroying most of the world's culture and replacing it with ours. So English culture is pretty much the world culture, and not ours alone any more. However Anglo-Saxon Lyre playing died out a millennia ago I think it is heritage not culture and we even have, English Heritage, which gets billions from the government to help us celebrate that.
I could write really cool metal material w these melodies. The lyrical content would great too; mercenary Saxon brothers Horsa and Hengest who arrived in Viking style long boats and whipped up on the Picts. The infamous "night of the long knives" when they betrayed the Britons by hiding their "seax" knives at a parlay feast. Fast fwd to centuries later and there's plenty of cool material from Alfred's defeat of the Great Heathen army too.
The first rune in your spelling is oak not ash, but your non-runic version uses an ash. However, I think it's conceivable that it could be spelled with an A and not an Æ. It might still read your intended "Elf Song".
