SKÁLMÖLD - Að hausti (Official Lyric Video) | Napalm Records 

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They are artworks of the 4 Guardians of Iceland. The Dragon, The Giant, The Bull, The Eagle. They are even on our coins :D

Well, your shit is better then the coins in germany , idgaf about people on coins or the gate ...

Kolur Laxdal Well I forgot about that, went to Iceland earlier in the year. I had a great time.

Interesting info! Its that a female warrior under the dragon? In that case, any idea about who she is?

Just found it on reddit "ask me anything". "It is a concept album, like our previous two albums (Baldur and Börn Loka) but this time our protagonist is female, a girl called Þórunn Auðna. It break down into four chapters representing four periods in her life, the four seasons and four epic battles (fought in the four corners of the land, representing the four directions), where she fights to protect Iceland alongside the country's guardian spirits (the landvættir). Simple and makes sense, no?"

This translation is supposed to match the rhythm of the song instead of being a literal translation.

it means the same thing anyway

@Cerberus I guess she knows but wanted to mention the other languages aas her inspiration

Snæbjörn, the bass player, writes the lyrics for Skálmöld, and quite frankly he knows the shit :)

all of there songs are written with very sticked poetic rules. they even use there lyrics for teaching in poetry in schools in iceland.

well atleast your neighbours are listening to good music even if they like it or not

Nor did my girlfriend. Respect from United States!

Hahahahahaha!! Lol xD

+Sylvain Germanier exactly what i though!

Goddammit....

pokerap of pokemon? is that? really?

Sylvain Germanier now that is all I can think about

+TheMachineWorker its almost 100% the thing is if you would translate it word for word you would get a pretty weird lyric for example: Reynslan æskuna rúði inn að skinni would be : the experience of youth sheared to skin the thing is many of the old Icelandic sentences are metaphors like ''rúinn inn að skinni'' you would say this if you would go to the bank and had to pay high bills and that almost completed your money for example: the bill was so high that now i am ''rúinn inn að skinni''. so it would be really hard to come up with English lyrics that are 100% but its close enough to make sense i guess. Hope this answers some of your questions :D

+TheMachineWorker I know this is old, but I still have to go on the record that Norwegian is basically Danish now since they took over Norway a few hundred years back. Icelandic is what Norwegian used to be, kinda just distilled on that island. So there are a lot of differences between the two now. But the guy above me is also correct, it isn't 100% correct anyways, but translations are never 100% correct anyways :D

They are the protectors of Iceland, the eagle, dragon, bull, giant. On all Icelandic coin. From the old icelandic sagas.

***** The later does not sound very inviting :P

It reminds me a bit of Iron Maiden, I really dont know if anyone agrees?

I am 100% sure I've heard it somewhere before. I think it must be Ensiferum or Finntroll because those are the only folk metal bands I can remember having listened to in my life.

jtebasile yep i thought the same... ensiferum riff :)

+GilgameshApproves legends tell of the times of albums like Iron and Victory Song my friend...

When are you gonna write a new song?

That's like saying "is that Obama?" every time you see a black person... Come on. Dragons have been discriminated long enough

Es islandés. Pero mejora un poquito el inglés antes xD

Leikka jaaja ok gracias men (Y)

Ty for the info sir

It was autumn?

ég er sammála því. það er allt í lagi að þýða þetta en ándskotinn hafi það þeit hefðu getað haft þetta í beinni þýðingu. Leaves they turned hvað í fjandanum voru þeir að hugsa? It was autum hefði haft mun meira vit í því.

was the artistry made special for Skálmöld.?

what is btter that way

Farðu bara til Fjandans þá!

***** Sorry xD

MrOkaron Why? Icelandic fits perfectly with vikingmetal. Personally I think Icelandic is the most awesome language in the world.

Jakromha I totally understand your point, but I don't really like it :D Would've loved it if it would have been english ^^