"The Witch at Miðjanesi" - Faroese Folk Song (Grímur á Miðjanesi) 

it probably was tbh

Good, it sounds like it was meant for that

Where else would you sing a song?

@@Tom_Quixote at a concert

@@danieldato6213 would suck in a concert tbh

im not sure the are any survivors from that

Rly sad part for me was the next stanza "it was not wromg to do so"...

Good

Average fairy tale tbh

Shouldn't have been a witch if you didn't want your children boiled

Scandinavians right?

Yeah, it's a linguistic marvel

This is the Sumbiar dialekt in Suðuroy. Very charming dialekt :)

@@eyunigeilhvannastein665 little denmark

Agreed

Oh yeah but stuff from the inhabitable world is NUTS man. Those demonic chants and hypnotizing songs and stuff

@Herdan Why should it be singular? There are many Faroese sagas told through kveding.

@Herdan I believe it is the second longest. The longest being over 100 verses, maybe 200. It is called "Ormurin Langi"

@Herdan the longest one might be the "Gongu-Rolvs kvæði" which is about 40 minutes long. Ormurin Langi is half an hour long. They aren't often performed in their full full-length.

@Biracial Boy Yes, yes I have. I've nothing better to do, so why not?

chinggis khaani magtaal, olaf liljuros, soviet anthem, degeneration, roll the ol chariot along, eirik jarl and many more beat them

@@thedictationofallah soviet anthem? lmao that song is so overrated it made me hate it

Icelandic is far far far farrrrr better

yes Icelandic folk songs do

@@FranTheMedic226 even Hungarian and Norwegian do.

The chorus is not related to the story.

@@Qwertyuiopazsx-fh2vz how do you know that??

Indeed. The song is likely from the year 1000-1300, and back then folktales about giants, ghosts and witches were popular. And there are also other folktales of mages and witches that are hunted by the vikings/people.

From my perspective, "the golden helmets" mentions to the Norwegian men, for me see in the old sagas, Norwegians are described with golden helmets, or perhaps the chorus is not relevant to the context of the song.

”Vitt om vägar, gyllne hjälmar sjunga, stiga å sina hästar, de springa. Höras kunde långan väg som deras sporrar ringa, vitt om vägar, gyllne hjälmar sjunga.”

Not through German. German, English and Faroese are Germanic languages but none of them derive from German (German ≠ Germanic)

@@anastspa9322 German derives from german though, lol, jk. But yes, they all started as proto-germanic and derived only like 1500 years ago; the vikings had very little difficulties understanding englishmen actually. So alot of words are almost identical; To sing, zu singen, ádh syngja. To come, zu kommen, ádh koma. Water, Wasser, Vatn. Hand is literary the same in all languages, as well as many prepositions. Most of the romance/french loan words after 1066 affected english in more advanced fields, so the scientific studies, literature, chivalry etc. Whilst the basic words are almost unaffected. Also, fun fact, icelandic and english are the only germanic languages to still have ádh knega/to know; german uses the word 'zu wissen' and the scandinavian languages 'å/at/att vita/vide'.

@@sofiaormbustad7467 no, lol, they all come from german, jk. A lot of people fail to understand that, yes xd

Proto-Germanic is at work there.

@@spcxplrr Through Germanic languages, I mean. As in Old Norse and Old English.

*Faroese elvish chant intesifies*

@@riograndedosulball248 ogga gogga gummi klokka erling perling piff paff puff tað var nettup tú

It didn't end well for the Farmers wife and it wont end well for you

@@LucidWanderer you will never have a real religion, seethe and dilate.

*gyltnir hjálmar syngia intensifies*

@@EpicnessYeet cared enough to comment

The people singing this song are descended from Vikings.

They still do!

Last time I was this early, England was still English.

what to you mean are you calling us rocks

Only at night

Same hahaha, I heard this in wings of time 9 years ago lol

its faroese

@Nathanael Marco Hartanto all nordic flags look the same lol

@@elkknowsbetter3199the point of the comment, I think, is that if one studies Icelandic, one can understand most of this. Like an Anglophone learning German, Dutch then becomes much much easier.

i just want to say dont just look at the pictures on google the weather in those pictures is very different from the normal weather

@@B3ni4mjn i know, trust me, a part of why i want to go there is because of the weather

Because it's 793.

Yup. The Faroese know what Paganism was and why to stay away from it

@@everettduncan7543 why so?

@@Krell-ef7rf Because Norse Paganism is degenerate.

@@t.mac_k What is wrong with you? Why would you say that about a religion that people, such as myself, follow?

@@Adlertok According to the Poetic Eddas, Loki fornicates with a horse and Thor was a crossdresser.

They're not slamming tables, though :D It's a live recording of a chain dance, so you're hearing their (beautifully!) synchronized footfalls :)

@@marcusli5112 It actually does

discord rules!

11 minutes of this folk song. I wonder if the people who sing this really have a breath after this.

Imagine how long it would be with the whole 100 verses

With the long winters that far north and cooped up inside, the song probably does not seem so long. Something creative to do, singing about old folklore.

@@torkilkass944 with fast (and bad) calculation in my head, i would say it's 45 minutes

Billys Gatsisjr yes

@@k0mentator507 hopefully this will help you ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lZH8Chixu2c.html :)

Billys Gatsisjr thanks :)

did you find out yet

No no no think of us as the kid you got after your divorce whit norway

@@B3ni4mjn Lol yeah probably

Yep. Can't upload for a week

Of course, they’re both north germanic languages

Faroese, Icelandic and all other Scandinavian languages share a common ancestor, old Norse, a branch of the germanic languages. I'm native swede and I understand a lot of this song even though the words, spelling and even grammar is kinda off. Even an English speaker would recognize a lot of the words, might even draw out some of the meaning from it. It wasn't -that- long ago English and the Nordic languages were mutually intelligible. Icelandic and Faroese have just retained a lot more of the old compared to the other Nordic languages

it's related to hindi to be clear

your days are only 9 minutes long?

hvat?

Why? (I'm not insulting you. I just want to know your opinion)

Your profile picture explains it all, lol.

This song is happy at all

@@ChinaBallOfficial what?

@@ChinaBallOfficial Why does a song need to be happy to be good?

its a typical trait of norse sagas, underplaying violence for example. we learn a bit about it in Norwegian class

I think those were the witch's kids, this makes sense given that they were playing with silken clothing, which was stolen from the dead men inside the house, and the fact that the witch goes on to say "You took both my children" later in the song.

@@Ingenting Yes, but that does not give that chick the right to just yeet some Kids into the fire...

@@livingdeadgirl5691 yeah but she was already breaking and entering, plus she stole some fire (?) so a double homicide doesnt seem that out of character. the real villain is the wife here!

@@comradewindowsill4253 The real villain is Xianity for turning the faithful into witches.