Eivør & Danish National Symphony Orchestra – Trøllabundin
An evening pause: Performed live 2023 as part of a concert dubbed, “Viking.” From the comments on the webpage:
Trøllabundin means spellbound. In the viking age, ‘Galder’ was a kind of magic song that was used in seiðr (magic/witchcraft) practiced by mainly women, and to ‘galdra’ was to affect something by magic singing.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
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An evening pause: Performed live 2023 as part of a concert dubbed, “Viking.” From the comments on the webpage:
Trøllabundin means spellbound. In the viking age, ‘Galder’ was a kind of magic song that was used in seiðr (magic/witchcraft) practiced by mainly women, and to ‘galdra’ was to affect something by magic singing.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Without any hints that this was of Nordic extraction, I would have said it sounded more Native North American than anything else. The instrumentals were all pretty much non-essential and wouldn’t have been missed if entirely absent as it was the singing and drums that dominated. The animal noise vocalizations were a nice touch. Oh well, the Vikings did visit North America in pre-Columbian times and who’s to say there wasn’t more than a bit of two-way “cultural appropriation” as the contemporary wokesters would deem it.
And there are certainly any number of such musical coincidences to be found worldwide. There is certain Asian music that sounds quite Celtic, for example. And I have always found a lot of Mexican music to sound – lamentably – like polka.
I grew up in a part of the country where much of the population were descendants of several polka-philic Northern and Eastern European ethnicities. I was not one such and grew to quite detest polka in my salad years. I could barely tolerate the sound of an accordion until encountering the music of Weird Al Yankovic who played the instrument satirically – likely because his actual last name matches that of erstwhile Polka King Frankie Yankovic.
There seems to be a pervasive element of women spellbinding men in a number of cultures. Sirens, lamia, Yakshis, succubi, and American Women, if the Guess Who are authoritive, On the other hand, incubi and satyrs are given as the male equivalents, but they aren’t, really. More direct action than feminine wiles. Just a little curiosity.