2024 and this song keeps kicking ass!!!! 2025 and this song keeps kicking ass!!!! 2026 and this song keeps kicking ass!!!! 2027 and this song keeps kicking ass!!!! ... :)
I will always sympathize with huldra and troll and other "bad guys". I hope they will crush this educated and cunning yet stupid mankid. Unfortunately they are part of ourselves. They are just poor inhabitants of the cellar of our psyche (like the monsters from Evil Dead who were locked in the cellar). Nordic mythology together with the Greek are one of the best on mapping of the archetypes of the human psyche. It hurts a little bit to see it simplified. But we all have to eat, I get it. And the women were beautiful in the video. And the guys also nice. Friendly, happy. Gøy. I like it. I guess I have my own issues and my own monsters in the cellar. :)
She's singing about a mythological creature called a "Hulder" which takes the form of a beautiful woman to seduce men and lure them under the mountain. While under the mountain the men are usually presented with a feast and a hoard of treasure, but if they eat any of the food or take any of the gold they will be trapped under the mountain for all eternity. Even though the "hulder" has the form of a beautiful woman it also has a tail which is how you might be able to detect that it is in fact not a woman and save yourself before she lures you under the mountain.
Ok, i know your comment is around 6 years old, but i will try to translate the lyrics anyway, btw this is far from my native dialect (i don't know where this dialect is from) and i don't understand every word. The lyrics are also much more poetic than what norwegian normally is. "Stand up, stand up, look back/again. Hear the strings of silver. see a hulder that you're burning, who of lust to you cries. Many i know sneak upon you, Let me be your girl. Nobody who only likes you, Do you have time to wait? Most beatiful guy in the valley, Lay your firm hand to mine, i will hum, play and blow stut (a type of horn). I will make you sour cream, butter and soft cheese. We will have happy days (i don't know what this next line means). We will live in (sonsteinshella?, sandstone cliff, maybe?) Therefore don't be scared, my living-room is hollowed out mountains, dressed in silver and gold."
Telemarksvariant av nynorsk regner jeg med. Eller usikker. Du har også Lytinne två (Lumsk) med sånn grautmål :) :) Skal vel være 1700-talls østnorsk kanskje
Prøvde å omsetje den til engelsk, dette var det eg kom fram til, men det er to-tre linjer av teksten eg ikkje forstår heilt: "Stand up, stand up, look back/again. Hear the strings of silver. see a hulder that you're burning, who of lust to you cries. Many i know sneak upon you, Let me be your girl. Nobody who only likes you, Do you have time to wait? Most beatiful guy in the valley, Lay your firm hand to mine, i will hum, play and blow stut (a type of horn). I will make you sour cream, butter and soft cheese. We will have happy days (i don't know what this next line means). We will live in (sonsteinshella?, sandstone cliff, maybe?) Therefore don't be scared, my living-room is hollowed out mountains, dressed in silver and gold."
