Vocal Coach reacts to Jonna Jinton - THE WOLF SONG - Nordic Lullaby - Vargsången 

Lovely - both song and your comments! This is one of my very favourite lullabies! However this song is not old, even though it borrows from Scandinavian folk music (and folk believes). The song is written for the film Ronja Rövardotter (Ronia, the Robbers Daughter). The film is based on the book with the same title, written by Astrid Lindgren. The book was published in Sweden in 1981, the film released in 1984. The lyrics to the song are also by Astrid Lindgren and the music is composed by Björn Isfält.

As a Swede. It does speak to me. Something about the nature and animals is just there.

It's so interesting hearing it like this. Lena Nyman who sang it in the movie "Ronja Robbers Daugther", has an earthy, raspy voice and sang it like a mother. It always made me feel calm and safe. This here is a beautiful take, leans even more in to the "old" norse. As a Swed it dose spark something inside. A feeling of belonging, home and nature. Celts and the nordics share a lot of symbols such as the tree of life/Yggdrasil Celtic knots.

It's not really traditional as it was written in 1984. It is however a classic and Jonna performs it flawlessly and beautifully.

Around the year 2001, I knew a girl who, when she got off the commuter train, used to kula so that her mother would know that she had arrived at the train station in the village and was on her way home. It was a time befor the mobilephone.. it was so diffrent. but the same.

Wild wolf, please... Leave us be I know you’re prowling Out from the forest To come steal from me I know your pain.. Cubs hungry again But you won’t take mine from me... Wild wolf, please Why don’t you feed On the scraps, that I leave you I promise this If my child you kiss That’s the last thing you’ll do another version The wolf is howling in the forest of the night He wants to, but cannot sleep The hunger tears his wolven stomach And its cold in his burrow wolf, wolf, don't you come here I will never let you take my child wolf, wolf, don't you come here I will never let you take my child The wolf is howling in the forest of the night Howling out of hunger and moaning But i will give him a pig tail which suits a wolven stomach wolf, wolf, don't you come here I will never let you take my child wolf, wolf, don't you come here I will never let you take my child

Jonna Jinton is my absolute favourite creator here on RU-vid, her creativity seems to know no ends, plus she is such a beautiful soul. Lovely to see you covering her here Beth! 💜

I've always found it interesting that while the mother pleads with the wolf not to try to take her baby she also laments the plight of the starving wolf...

Jonna also has a video on "cow-calling" 👍🏻

It's actually not an old traditional song, but it was composed by Björn Isfält for the movie Ronja, the Robber's Daughter - a medieval/fantasy film based on a book by Astrid Lindgren (who also wrote Pippi Longstocking). And most of the song isn't really kulning, more folk style singing. But you do hear a bit of kulning in the background at 2:48 (also check ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Tqy2FIJjW-8.html). It's a very nice song, though :) I also enjoyed your Power of the Wolf, btw!

Jonna Jinton has an excellent RU-vid channel. She was a great help in getting through the Covid lockdown. 🙂

The wolf lullaby is in a film about Ronja the robbers daughter. A book from Asteid Lindgren who also wrote Pippi Longstocking and other children books

I'm just fourteen but this is so nostalgic!! Love from Sweden :)

Beth looks like a nordic princess. ❤

Yep, we still use the kulning up in swedish Woods when we call for the cattle. I now have them at home, but in the summer we live up in the Mountains with all th cattle. Nothern Dalarna in sweden.

Yes, Beth. The blood of our ancestors still runs through our veins.

Pity you didn't take the English subtitle version, so you know what it's all about. Her husband is making all the jewelry, she is also a great paint artist as you say. Nice reaction.❤ Thanks

Wait, Ronja Rövardotter's classic lullaby? Holy smokes!

The lyrics is what makes me really emotional. I know there is a video with english lyrics. Check it out, then it makes it even more beautiful.

a childhood favorite. The original is from the childrens' movie called Ronja Rövardotter.

Very relaxing. I love her voice. It does make me want to sleep. I like the howl of the wolf. I would like to change into a wolf at will.

Love Vargsången! ... know it first from Ronja rövardotter Oh, here I can also recomment: Songleikr | Ulvetime (Hour of the Wolf) with Maria Franz from Heilung.... also a stunning "wolfen" song!

Yes, my grandma and her family did do kulning in the north Swedish mountains calling their cattle (cows but especially goats because they can live in that climate so well, despite it being really little food). So I have always felt something strong inside of me when hearing these kinds of songs or just kulning in general. My grandpa's parents did this as well, so it was very common not just that long ago. As a young teenager I really started to like traditional Celtic songs, they really spoke to me. And now when you mention the both styles together, yes, I am sure I like those Celtic songs because of the similarities to kulning and traditional norse singing style!

The song comes from the movie ronja rövardotter a swedish classic

I belive you genes speaks to you. The genes of "vemod". A special feelings/mood for us old norse/scandinavians/vikings. The nature, the dark (and light) the big land and few people and the cultur.

Wow! Had no idea she was a singer! I stumbled on a video where she was taking a dip in the dead of winter, IN a small, deep pool of ice water, as many folks do in Scandinavian countries and Siberia. It was the coldest thing I've ever seen. She is a true artist and her videos are beautiful.

I used to sing this to my daughter when she was a baby, it worked wonders!

I love JJ and even bought a Painting from her a couples years ago. She very Talented.

I love her, I have been following her for a few years. Incredible person with multiple talents. Love her recordings of the singing ice and her traditional folk singing. In regards to your question. I have always had a feeling and connection that is other worldly when I hear Celtic music, art or Norse arts and singing. My origin is Irish and Scandinavian and Germanic. The landscapes feel like home.

Excellent choice!!! My daughter and I love this song... she's in school at the moment, but I will have to have her listen to your review when I pick her up. Love it!

We've got wolves where I live. Never seen or heard them, either would be awesome. As long our animals are safe ...

There's a haunting Swedish (children's song?) called Herr Mannelig here on RU-vid with English subtitles if you'd like more like this.

So meditative!! 🤍 Its like an instant cure for a stressful day.

It is a lullaby :P its a mother singing to her child and the wolf about the wolf wanting to eat the mothers child but she tells the wolf she cant have her child! also explains the hunger of the wolf

The song is Not traditional. Its from a movie called Ronja Rövardotter from the 80s. (Ronja the Robbers doughter). That and Pippi longstocking are creations of the books of Astrid Lindgren. Sorry. But the kulning and the roots o that song is genuin. (I guess). Jonna is great. PS. Your ginger hair is very beatuful and you must have a lot of viking and Celtic dna inside. Keep on reacting. I like it a lot! Big hugs. Jonas. Greetings from Gothenburg Sweden.

Love Jonna, She has an amazing Instagram account, showing the lands, how to make natural art supplies, and singing and all!

Wolfs and Bears were the few natural predators that we had in scandinavia that could threaten a lone homestead. And wolfs tended to be more bold due to the fact that they hunted in packs, while the bears usually avoided direct contact.

Thank you for this - love JJ!! Keeping my fingers crossed for First Aid Kit "Wolf" 🤞

Yes it appeals to something deep and tribal. Family is from Golspie, Scotland Clan Sutherland… we are the progeny of Norway. We’ve not changed much in a millennia.

I have forgot this song until I heard it again. And remember we sang it in school.

I love JJ and her husband. I've been following their journey for a while. I want to give you a shout out. Your music has been just as beautiful to listen to. Follow your heart and others will come along for the ride. Respect and love.....

Hi, Yes I thing that our heritage is very much present, it runs thrue us. Definitely. Live in Northern Sweden as well and I absolutely Love her channel. Thank You, Loads of varm winter Hugs from a Snowie Sweden

She sings to the wolf that he is not gonna have her child. It’s a warning to the wolf to stay away. A little bizarre lullaby , but probably common in older days. I think you have Harald Fairhair as an ancestor with your beutiful hair. He was a very famous Norwegian Viking king. Love your videos !

Lovely song. Lovely voice. So glad you introduced her and Swedish mythology to those of us who don't know of her. I believe the native Indians in America had beliefs of fear of, protection and respect for the mighty, cunning wolf. Beautiful music from world mythologies....including your music drop. Thanks again. BTW..finding out I had Norwegian genes from way back gave me a feeling of calm and strength. It also made me think about all the places the vikings traveled to/mixed with populations. Brings a whole new meaning to the word embedded.😊

The wolf was a very real threat for people in Scandinavia, it´s our version of the boogie man, something that was used to scare insubordinate kids with. There are childrens books, lullabyes, poems, songs and tales about wolves. There are still more than 500 wild wolves living in Scandinavia, around 450 of them live in Sweden 2022/23

I am Swedish. My father has done genealogy research. We are descendants from a Norwegian chieftain from hundreds of years ago. Why is the wolf so important to us Scandinavians? It is a key animal to us as a people. It still exists to this day, in all of Scandinavia.

Very nice. Her voice is perfect for this. And after listening to your song a few more times I think you could have done this.

"Kulning" is a contraction of the words "Ku" and "lockning" meaning "cow + calling/luring". It is part of a whole traditions "lure/call songs" known as "lokk" in old Norse which is strongly associated with the "pasture culture" (Sv: fäbodkultur) in Scandinavia. You also have supernatural/magic lure songs such as "Huldralokk" and "Vardlokk".

Kulning is the old Scandinavian way of calling the cows back home after they've been out all day on green pastures

I used to sing this to my daughter when she was in my belly and as a baby. She´s 19 years now but I still can´t sing this without starting to cry. 😞

On October 1, the premiere of a stunningly beautiful OST video for the song “Baikal” took place on Diana Ankudinova’s RU-vid channel. The soundtrack performed by Diana became the main musical theme of the film “The Spirit of Baikal,” which will be released in wide release on October 19, 2023. In the film itself, Diana voiced two roles - the spirit of Lake Baikal and the voice of the soul of the deceased mother of the main character of the film. The film received several top awards at film festivals. Baikal is the deepest, oldest, freshwater lake on Earth (22-23 percent of all fresh surface water), it is a place of power, the spiritual center of shamans, different religions - Shamanism , Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, a pristine place not yet touched by civilization.Baikal is the deepest, oldest, freshwater lake on Earth (20 percent of all fresh water, it is a place of power, the spiritual center of shamans, different religions - pagan, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, a pristine place not yet touched by civilization.

As someone who adore wolves with a great passion, I'm glad that she uses real wolves in the video, where many would use spitz dogs like huskies, Malamutes or some wolf hybrids like Saarloos or Ceskoslovenský vlciak 💖

The wolf was one of the totems from the berserkers. Cunning, powerful, stealthy, and a pack mentality.

Oh man I love this one . Never thought I'd see this here .

There are numerous connections between Scotland and Scandinavia. Some clans such as the MacLeods are descendants of the Viking raiders who eventually settled in places such as the Hebrides. The Orkney and Shetland Islands were originally settled by Scandinavians and such festivals as Shetland's Up Helly Aa where they ritually set fire to a replica Viking ship demonstrate a cultural connection that visibly exists today. As for communicating over distances, the Scots of course developed the Highland Pipes also known as the War Pipes which were used to great effect on the enemy.

I am a big fan of your red hair (and nice that you match it with green) both our DNA (Im a Dane) and languages come from the same roots. "English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern Great Britain. Their language originated as a group of Ingvaeonic languages which were spoken by the settlers in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages, displacing the Celtic languages (and, possibly, British Latin) that had previously been dominant. Old English reflected the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms established in different parts of Britain. The Late West Saxon dialect eventually became dominant. A significant subsequent influence on the shaping of Old English came from contact with the North Germanic languages spoken by the Scandinavian Vikings who conquered and colonized parts of Britain during the 8th and 9th centuries, which led to much lexical borrowing and grammatical simplification. The Anglian dialects had a greater influence on Middle English."

Beautiful song, I really love Nordic folk music too (also Celtic or Slavic). But I'm not sure if connection to certain kinds music is that much related to genes... While I might have some Nordic or Celtic roots as I'm a Pole, I don't think it's possible for me to to be related in any way to Koreans, while most of my favorite singers nowadays are Korean ;D (Son Jin Wook, Max Changmin, PITTA, Ha Hyun Woo and many other). Also I'm from a family of musical anti-talents, I can't sing at all... but I love to listen to beautiful voices so much... By the way this song strangely (maybe because of the wolf theme) reminded me of one much simpler but also beautiful ballad by a Korean singer Vincent '그 날 (That day)', I rarely listen to it recently because it's only on YT, but I felt an urge to listen to it now.

About kulninig, from a Swede with some experience in performing folk music. 2:50 is the most clear example of kulning, and maybe the only one I would deem to be actual kulning, whereas the rest, in my ears, is light, airy headvoice. But, I was intrigued to hear what you had to say about the subject. Obviously, you only call it kulning when you hear some quality that is not present/common within the music practices you specialise in. Those qualities may be kulning type qualities, produced in kulning type manner, that I miss simply becuase I'm used to that particular timbre. As we know, singers who can perform a technique can add sprinkles of that technique into other types of singing.

Lovely choice! Thanks for the recommendation 👍 And seeing as it is Wolf month (in honour of your awesome new single...which I just LOVE! ❤) try giving 'Run With The Wolf' a listen, by Rainbow (on their Rainbow Rising album), with the incredible Ronnie James Dio on vocals, who is my all time favourite ever singer...

Awesome ! I dunno why but right now it remember me of Cheza’s song in the anime Wolf’s rain

My mother sang this (Ronja Rövardotter version) to me when I was a kid.

I forgot York. My ancesters called it Jorvik (The forth of horses). Jorvik here is a very small village nowdays. Greetings Jonas.

I think the wolf commands a significant amount of respect within Nordic culture. It represents many things; strength, unity, and duality, to name a few. Both a source of fear and aspiration in ancient times, and of course, the fantastical myths that have formed around them. Can't forget dogs being the first major animal companion of humans once they were domesticated, perhaps especially so in the cold north for sled pulling and assisted hunting.

Norse wolf mythology says the wolf can be good or bad , the bringer of destruction or can be wise and loyal . In Cherokee say the wolf is a companion , traveled with Kanaki the master hunter . The wolf has the power to save another wolf from a death by snake bite . My father's people go back to the Scottish clan of Colquhoun , and Mother's people go back to the Cherokee ! Ah-ni-gi-lo-hi , long hair clan

The wolves play a huge part in nordic cultural history. In terms of Mythology, they are the companions of Odin, Gere and Freke, the 2 wolves that always followed him and would get his food, as the Allfather only consumes wine. If a cripple was born during the viking age, or a deformed baby, it was custom, and expected of the mother, to either carry the infant into the woods herself, or let a family member do the deed, and give the baby back to the gods by feeding the wolves. This was done by leaving the baby in the forest where the wolves would find it soon enough. For farmers, they have been a nuisance until modern times when they were removedd from Denmark, only to return in recent years.

This isn't really an old lullaby it's from a children's film based on a story by the author Astrid Lindgren

Magic is all i can think of

This vaguely resembles the menu theme from Witcher 3: Blood & Wine, which happens to start with the word "Wolves" =p

Thanks!

I love her music I’ve tried to do culning it’s pretty difficult

I think the reason why there are wolves in nordic stories and songs is because we lived among them. They were and still are a part of nature. There were more wolves in Sweden then, today only a few hundred. She’s singing ’Du varg, du varg kom inte hit. Ungen min får du aldrig.’ Which means ’You wolf, you wolf, don’t come here. My youngster (child) you will never get’. So this is a lullaby meant to be sung by a mother to a child. The lyric tells the mum’s defensive attitude.

As a Norwegian, I was surprised by your question about the wolf's significance in our mythology, but then I quickly realized that our region is quite unusual in not really having much to fear in nature but nature itself. There are basically only wolves that can truly harm humans, and even then, it is only children or especially weak people that might be at risk during some kind of famine. Wolf populations are moderate to low, and they roam over large distances, so the chances of running into one or more of them while out skiing alone under the moon are really low. (Technically, humans also face a little bit of risk from bears, lynxes and wolverines, and with a lot of bad luck you might get too close to the one venomous snake in the warm season, but I don't think I have heard of any human succumbing to any of those causes for a century).

I cried I’m a 47 year old man I did ancestry and I have Norwegian dna I was suprised

January is technically the month of the wolf actually. :) October is the month of the hunter, but I don't mind if it is the wolf, they are one of my favourite animals after all.

There is also an acapella version of the wolf song. The lyrics are written by Astrid Lindgren and in this case the book and movie Ronja robbers duoghter. Astrid Lindgren is also known for pippi longstocking. But this version of the wolf song is an acapella version: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Heik5sKkNtE.html

Wolves, Bears, Elks and Reindeer is common animals in old Norse music.... we kind of don't have much else to sing about except squirrels so it's only natural

The Js in her name are pronounced as Ys.

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Calling this a traditional nordic lullaby is taking things a bit too far imho. Its a song from a 80´s childrens movie, no more, no less.

This gets to me and Jimi Hendrix also gets to me. Is there something wrong with me?

i wonder why you had eivor just once on your channel. she is the essence of nordic music

One of the most Beautiful animals in the world and also one of the most hated ones ....But still awesome song :)

The wolf mythology, it comes from wanderers who traveled across mountains and plains and got attacked by wolves in the middle of night as the fires went out at the camp. The wolf took the youngest and easiest prey, kids and wounded got taken first. Therefore there is still a built in fear of the wolf. I have personally met wolves in the wild, I can tell that no matter how prepared you are, you freeze and get prepared for an attack. One by one they are majestic creatures to look at but in packs you don't want to meet them.

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Here in Scandinavia there is pretty much just wolves to fear when it comes to animals. That's most likely the reason for all the wolf lore

I prefer the original song with Lena Nyman in the movie Ronja Rövardotter. I would say that Jonna sings here more in a trad style than kulning. You can here a little bit of it in this video but mostly trad. She have videos with kulning if you like it 😊 I would really like 2 hear what you think of Lena Nymans version of this song. That one I really love ❤

Its a thing…generations

Yes, very beatiful. It is a SWEDISH song.

La cultura céltica tiene sus lados místicos esta voz no sé qué tanto a intervenido la tecnología pero se escucha hermosísima... por cierto estas mas hermosa que ayer Prrj. bien Beth 👏👏🍀🍀

The wolf song in Astrid Lindgrens Ronja Robbers duoghter is the version of the wolfsong most of us Swede´s know today. That version Jonna is singing is older.

She sings about that the wolf wolf will never get her kid

"det ska va lovis... "

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Yes it speaks to me, but im Swedish so.. 😅

Sadly she does not the last verse of this lovely song

As a swede about wolf, yes the fear of them have gone for over 1000 years. In beginning when we lived in nature in small viking villages but had domesticated animal of course they got tempted to come close to houses also during daytime and it might have happend they tool some childs in there cratel outside when people was working in the fields or forest. But when time passed and the gunpowder came it was really bad for wolf and probably no more children in there belly. And the fear and possibility for wolf take child came down. But then came christianity to scandinavian and all the shame and women submissivness and there guilt came in fashion. That meant that have a child outside marriage was like a death sentence for both child and mother. Then young women started to put childs on forests and then blame the wolf when they took it and stories and fear spread again. After that again history took turn with landspread starvation...and some had to sacrify some to forest and the blame came on the wolf again. So then we shoot and killed and exterminated all the wolf in scandinavia....was is fair? Was is accurate? Didnt mather, cause fear and blame was so high. So the wolf we have now has merged from russia in to scandinavia to reclaim the land they got vanished from. Still the fear of wolf is again starting to spread, even if none have been killed by a wolf last 50 years, but 1000:s have died of crashing cars with elks in the 60s and 70s since wolfs was gone. So we human solved that the same way, we shoot down the elk population with about 70% in couple of years. Now Wolf is back and also more elk and this time christianity have changed and goverment seek a balance in nature, so hopefully this lovely lullaby can be a nice historic song and not a fear or reality song.

Ask yourself this question! Why do we (most of us) hate this beautiful wolf so much!? Here's the answer: The Wolf represents freedom, and he owns it! But humans don't like that, and we hate him for it!! If you try to steal his freedom, you're gonna suffer deeply!! Pain will follow!!

Jonna Jinton can definitly kula - "sing" the traditional kulning. But her singing here isn't kulning. The background song is inspired by kulning but I believe more of an improvisation. This is mostly her version of a classic lullaby (for my generation) sung in the way of Swedish folk music. That is f.e. the little trill on the notes you hear in the very beginning. With kulning you project your voice very straight in a small direction forward. I think it might be similar to opera but more directed. Her voice in the background here isn't sharp enough to be used in kulning. I don't believe in genealogy affecting our cultural ideals. Have Scandinavian and Irish genes and my likes and dislikes are influenced by my upbringing and whatever I've come in contact with in life, not blood. Red hair is Celtic rather than Scandinavian by the way. We are blond or brown haired and I see more red heads in Britain than in Scandinavia. I've always thought it is so beautiful.

in old time, the wolf, was THE alpha predator all over europe, especially in the cold northern regions. it was THE threat to human tribes, and they dis hunt as pack, with tactic to seperate the easiest prey, and then take that down.. something, that the first tribes of human hunters learned from them... so the wolf was as much as a teacher and a threat to be feared the same time... and then, there is the strict pack(family) hirarchy they live by... they were social among them as the humans were(mostly)... so i think, it´s understandable, why the wolf has had such a big impact on very early human society...