"Gnaal" - the bowed lyre (taglharpe) "Funeral march"

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Presenting the instruments Eldrim use in our music.
"Gnaal" is a bowed lyre (taglharpe) made of spruce, flame ash and bog oak.
Strings are made of horse tail.
Not a reproduction. More a bastard with various historical instruments as it's "parents".
We felt the need for a deeper tone/drone and came up with this creation.
Tuning: D (same as the D on a normal bass guitar)- A - D (octave higher)
Made by Espen Winther (Eldrim)
Here you can see the whole process. From drawing to sound:
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[@FuXOuT]

Before playing: Violinists: "I need to check the tune" HE: "I need to check the rune"

[@fakuaraya630]

Jajaja jajajajaj culiado. You make my night

[@joshberkin5567]

I don't get why i found this so funny

[@dundeeojo]

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[@ElricWilliam]

I laughed way to hard at that, you brought me to tears, fucking brilliant

[@prickheadthedick3599]

I tilt my hat to you good sir.

[@bellybutton3806]

This lyre has the blackest, driest, most badass sound I've ever experienced

[@ianrojlar8990]

Its because the strings are made of a horses tail which makes them get a deep dry sound, in sweden its called "tagelharpa"

[@nil8392]

Huh. Thanks for the fun fact

[@cooliodiablo6117]

It’s more than just the strings of horse hair lol, they really just put those on and mentioned them to have the lyre be as time period accurate for the type of lyre and song played. that hardly played a role in it getting a deeper tone. It literally tells you in the description if you bother to read it, that they specifically built the body of this lyre to be designed for deeper tones that a traditional lyre wouldn’t have.

[@Nick.YT01]

coolio diablo good story bad tone

[@ianrojlar8990]

@@cooliodiablo6117 its called tagel, horse tail. Youre partly wrong and partly right, as the description said the construcion of the body is made for a raspy sound, but the vibration of horse tail is more rough than if you compare it to a violin, and if horse tail strings are stroked with horsetail its has this deep vibration. We have 2 of these at home

[@elysium7242]

*Slaps Lyre* "This bad boy can fit so many tortured souls of the damned inside it"

[@steelshower7949]

Elysium “so how many can it fit” Me- *YES*

[@elysium7242]

I read this in the majestic voice of John Rhys Davies, AKA our lord and saviour Gimli son of Gloin

[@annam.ackley7666]

I read that in Morgan Freeman’s voice 😂

[@Call_Me_TUA]

I WLL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!

[@ManiacalSurgeon]

This literally sounds like the fate of an ascendant to a Malazan god who is known for playing this instrument.

[@NonceKillaz]

The theme that plays when your village is massacred and you're the only survivor.

[@abirzaghich8731]

Oh ya

[@theiazoumpoulia]

It happened here in my village, in Greece, by the Turks. As in many other Greek villages from 1453 to the 20th century

[@dulhula5488]

@@theiazoumpoulia you talking shit bro

[@theiazoumpoulia]

@@dulhula5488 OK then my village is fine and the Ottoman occupation didn't happen

[@dulhula5488]

@@theiazoumpoulia please be dispassionete ottamans treat you better then anybody you just being envy

[@stardust-reverie]

must have been a real privilege to get an actual medieval wizard resurrected to play that beautiful instrument for you

[@warcrimesagainstthepope7307]

Homestuck is good.

[@justsomenerd0922]

shaun03a He’s clearly a Viking elder

[@johnscorner4452]

not medieval, viking, here in the Nordic countries the middle ages begun when christianity spread

[@smakyakproductions4466]

JOHNS CORNER WHOOOOSH!

[@nivst7094]

Well he’s a white male so what did you expect

[@ashertheprophet9601]

This dude looks exactly like the kind of person that'll play something like that

[@Replicanna-rl6zg]

Except for the cross, vikings were not christian

[@ELDRIMmusic]

​@@Replicanna-rl6zg You need to read up on history. Christianity gradually took over as a religion during the viking age.

[@Replicanna-rl6zg]

@@ELDRIMmusic I know, but I doubt any viking would wear a metal cross around their neck. The religion spreading started with the farmers, not the warriors

[@ELDRIMmusic]

The religion started with the chieftains and other people in power when they realised how it could help to get more power and wealth.

[@Moozie420]

@@Replicanna-rl6zg this has literally never been a case in history of any country

[@cheyennejenkins4692]

This smells like a thunderstorm and pines, maybe cedar trees. Mossy, earthy and raw. I like it.

[@leowaginer4385]

I smell ist man

[@asmrbully6980]

i smell odin

[@Jordana01]

@@asmrbully6980 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@lindamulkey2235]

I smell a blood from a really edgy horror movie

[@metalman7825]

I don’t know what the fuck that means but it’s correct.

[@Krescentwolf]

This might get buried in the comments on a 6 year old video... but... Thank you for this. My father died last week... and he's being cremated today. There's something incredibly... comforting in the sound of this instrument.... so thank you.

[@ELDRIMmusic]

My deepest condolences! Music is a very individual experience and may both be comforting and healing to some. Honored to be a tiny part of something positive in your loss! Thank you for your comment! For Eldrim: Espen ❤

[@marileedewitt2713]

My condolences as well. You're right, there is something comforting, and majestic, and dignified about this music. I've shared it a number of times with friends who have lost a loved one. Peace and strength to you, my friend.

[@kaindestuto2053]

Sometimes all you need, is a solemn string instrument playing in your ears. Hope he got sent off, with alot of ppl to remember him by and that held him dear.

[@AnkushB1811]

I am sorry for your loss. May your father rest in peace

[@madmanda1980]

Condolences 🙏

[@TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive32]

I think sometimes people get too caught up in the "Skill" of music, playing complicated instruments and bashing out notes in super fast rhythms. There is something primal, and natural about a simplistic ancient instrument played in a calm slow rhythm.

[@101sweetflower]

I agree, somethings about it make it so smooth and calming.

[@jmha2428]

It creates atmosphere. So does the droning and dissonant sounds

[@emirinobambino]

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 licks once; I fear the man who has practiced one lick 10,000 times. "

[@quentin48394]

Yeah, but too with instruments as guitar or piano, you can make atmospheric music... Be fast isn't the most important thing in music, in my point. Create an ambience, a scene, express something, it's the most important thing.

[@KayttakaaHumehia]

Yes to these comments about the atmosphere of music, but you seem to think that playing this instrument or any of these more simplistic old pieces is easy. It is not! The man playing the tagalharpa is propably atleast decent in the violin too.

[@jb6725]

When I hear this song I can feel that it has a lot of sadness behind it like there's a brooding darkness over the strings and it doesn't sound like a regular sad song it sounds like genuine misery

[@panisalittleman2662]

If this isn’t playing at my funeral, I’m not going.

[@colonelkurtz2269]

If Metro State doesn't escort it, I won't be there either.

[@Volvith]

_Pretty sure if this is playing at your funeral you might just come back but ok._

[@bjrngumundsen939]

svona mild orð frá mildri sál.

[@Drenov]

Yeah, over my dead body!

[@MFM556]

This made me actually lol a bit, thank you

[@aLousyBum83]

Sounds like something I'd expect to hear in The Witcher 3. Very interesting musical instrument.

[@creativeheadroom]

I'm not sure if this was used, but I think they used a hurdy gurdy for some of the music. That instrument has a similar 'scratchy' tone and nice drone notes. If you don't know about the hurdy gurdy, I suggest you look it up. I think you'll like the sound.

[@Yaboi_Phantom]

I'm pretty sure they may have actually used a tagleharpa of some kind in the soundtrack. But I'm not 100% on that

[@mikshinee87]

The Witcher series was inspired by two cultures. Slavic and Anglo-saxon. Why do you think you can actually pronounce the character names? Geralt, Yennefer, Cirilla. Perhaps you should visit Britain more often. I bet they have some nice folk festivals with similar music.

[@Thomas-xd4cx]

@@mikshinee87 Slavic and Germanic* (Anglo-Saxon is one of the sub-groups of the Germanic culture group along with Scandinavian, Low Country, Alpine and German culture). These two groups share much in common.

[@singingflowers7456]

or a plague's tale

[@mileswilliams527]

The tension created through the dissonance of the drone note under the melody is beautiful.

[@gregoryfilin8040]

Miles Williams it feels.... primal. It doesn’t feel smooth and refined, like a polished piece of wood. It feels, primal, simple, old, and like it hits something deep inside you.

[@TwoManOperation]

so it sounds good?

[@soulextract640]

@@gregoryfilin8040 I know what you mean it feels ancient...it feels like some sort I can't describe it, feels like pain and sorrow but it also seems very wise

[@StarshipTrooper4231]

Well. A wet fart sounds better than splashing diarrhea. But it doesn't make it better.

[@user-pv7cq9bp5j]

I’m in San Diego listening to this and suddenly the sky is now overcasted, there’s a shape of a long boat in the clouds, the sea is grey and churning, and in the distance... ships...

[@usererror7007]

same

[@GentlemanBystander]

It's called Fleet Week.

[@idivineaegis1926]

GentlemanBystander standby devil

[@TempleofBrendaSong]

Odin send his regards

[@Seeadler-vp3du]

FOR VALHALLA!!!

[@ZombolicBand]

The Allfather just knocked on my door. He asked me to turn the volume up.

[@klyk69]

@Du'atın Askeri Allfather seems to be weak if he lost against some lad on a cross

[@klyk69]

@Shield n Axe gaming all Germanic countries are christian now haha

[@hanswurst2189]

The allfather watches us always

[@mikeycothern382]

@Jacob Mello sadly true but i will remain a believer to the norse

[@loadeddice4696]

You better do whay he says, dude

[@ParaLightWorX]

This sounds really epic! :)

[@Wahatoyas]

Omg I watch your ww2 content love your guys work. Ich bin ein Großer fan

[@salahkhlifa2397]

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[@Tapanitseini]

@@salahkhlifa2397 you good?

[@gracie99999]

ya it’s should be in an orchestra for something

[@namea99]

"Shall we play a round of gwent?"

[@johnburch5624]

Challenge Accepted

[@zichithefox4781]

Indeed!

[@mbrewer9279]

Herbs shmerbs, how bout some gwent?

[@lowdownshakinchill]

*stares into the distant horizon*

[@Myriadmusics]

The instrument you hear in the witcher is actually a nykkelharpa

[@JonnyChapelow]

2:21 isn't long enough. I want at least an hour of this dark masterpiece.

[@JonnyChapelow]

@TheFlower Indeed I do know of Wardruna, I love their music.

[@The_Hylian_Likely]

@@d3695125 dude tries sawing on his damn lyre, it's just bad imo. Some is aight but when he starts going ham trying to act like he's Herman Li, it sounds awful and kills the atmosphere.

[@LolGurrl91]

It's hard to give a single word to the sound, it's just so haunting, ancient and raw with an almost sinister beauty. I love it, gave me chills.

[@TheMirazor]

Why did this actually bring me to tears. It's such a beautiful song that makes me feel like i'm connecting with my ancestors. Thank you.

[@ELDRIMmusic]

Thank YOU!

[@torqara1879]

I really hate comments like these. 100% pure cringe

[@PhyreI3ird]

@Crusis I know, right?? All these candy-asses getting _satisfaction_ and _fulfillment_ in life. Like wtf?? GET WITH IT, AM I RIGHT?

[@seraphineloqui4063]

I felt the same too! It got me in my feelimgs as well. Such a very powerful song.

[@YatiAcharya]

@@PhyreI3ird goddamn 🤣

[@smirkingsheep141]

*falls asleep listening to this* *wakes up, eyes open* “Hey, you. You’re finally awake” Edit: There. I added the punctuation you nut jobs

[@reoglah]

You're*

[@solinvictus2045]

@@reoglah dude seriously, like how to actually fuck up a joke

[@reoglah]

@@solinvictus2045 nooo, i didn't fuck up the joke, come on ! Just a little bit correction, that's all

[@spice_cake]

Lol

[@mooser321]

@@reoglah Nooo, I didn't fuck up the joke, come on!* At least stay consistent if you're going to be a grammar nazi. No capitals, spaces between punctuation. Get it together ;)

[@wdl713]

I love the deeper tone. Very rich. It really reaches down deep and sets a nice and calming, meditative foundation.

[@ELDRIMmusic]

Thanks!

[@erik95056]

William Lindsay Indeed, truly magnificent instrument. I couldn't put my finger on why I like this instrument so much. It's like the sound of though and memory cruising through eternity.

[@whennever8202]

makes me sad and feels cool at the same time. wuut?...

[@Arenotelicon]

Very well put. Not so easy to find for me. I love emotionally charged music, whatever the emotion, but for times like now--as I close a contract from home, for example---I'm after sounds that are more meditative than evocative. But that doesn't mean it isn't soulful. I love people who do what they do like they mean it.

[@ELDRIMmusic]

Thank you very much! When i first started scetching the drawings for it i had a particular sound in my head. I wanted a "wider" and deeper sound than most of the taglharpas i had heard. I wanted, what i choose to call, a "brown" sound. When i write lyrics i think in images that has a brownish feel to them. Then, when the bow awoke the strings for the first time and i heard the sound i wanted, i almost went through the roof. Its sad sound made me happy! Espen.

[@westmichiganpreparedness]

I want to imbrace this but it hurts my heart for the recent loss I've had to endure. You're mastery of said funeral march has known no equal.

[@sjov7079]

to say i watched this more than once is an understatement

[@AlbySilly]

The drone reminds me of throat singers

[@mertomerbozlak6220]

Albin9000 if you search "morin khuur" you will get most similar mongol enstrument.

[@neralodinson2742]

Batzorig is a great throat singer

[@1337fraggzb00N]

Plot twist: the drone is from DJI.

[@nilsvids]

True! It also reminds me of corsica music, such as "Comme Un Souffle A Filetta"

[@KhanggiTanka]

I think because it has similar multi-tonal harmonics

[@randomcthulu]

Such a beautiful, melancholy sound...

[@ELDRIMmusic]

Thank you!

[@Guitaristmalakian]

If I die killing a giant Kraken please play this at my funeral.

[@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479]

Lmao i deadass read that as karen and i still respected the funeral

[@Guitaristmalakian]

@@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479 A horde of giant Karens :'P

[@masterklaw4527]

Your battle cry will echo in the halls of Valhalla.

[@1953beetle]

@@masterklaw4527 👍

[@mercharris5266]

What if you die from colon cancer? What do we do?

[@txbarker78]

A Marine brother died a month ago. I never met him, a purple heart recipient Vietnam veteran. This is the first time I've heard this song and seen it played and goddamnit im sitting here crying for my brother. Thank you for this video. I passed it along to my brothers to watch. I dont know who is right, what gods are real, or where we go but I hope there is a sacred place for US Marines on the other side SEMPER FIDELIS

[@lilac6940]

Thank you for your service, TX Barker. Never give up searching for what is right.

[@cyn7696]

So this is where black metal came from

[@warhead5043]

yeah pretty much

[@warbossgegguz679]

Black Metal came from England. Deal with it.

[@132arien]

think he just went it as a joke ^^

[@warbossgegguz679]

arien clarke kvåle I'm sure, but it's just a really common misconception that some people (especially in the pagan/viking metal scene) have been happy to perpetuate. Bathory, Burzum and other bands act like they've never heard the name Venom before, meanwhile Jonas Åkerlund let slip they took their name from Countess Bathory *the song* rather than the historical figure. I didn't mean to come across as super agressive, but it's just such a common error that it gets old.

[@132arien]

sry i dont know that much about the history of black metal. i just knew that it was not made i Norway. and he just seemed to make a joke about it cus it sounds so dark, and scary.

[@401files4]

I just imagined Vikings coming down the river on their longboat. They emerge through Some low laying fog. Everyone one the river bank is running & screaming. This music is playing over the top

[@_Jado]

I can’t imagine the fear that washed over an enemy standing at the forests edge, hearing this instrument, along with men screaming and the sound of axes banging against their shield. Total fear.

[@jacobh3227]

I recommend looking up Aztec Death whistle ;P it’s terrifying

[@derkanal1908]

This is, as far as we know, not an instrument of War. I heart it was mostly used at marriages and other festivities, at least in later Skandinavian Folk music

[@ericdpeerik3928]

Marriage isn't quite terrifying enough, they have to add funeral music? Noted

[@felipewerner6670]

@@ericdpeerik3928 why do you fear womans? all of them witches? 🤣

[@Thomas-xd4cx]

@@felipewerner6670 goofy response

[@WitchWhit666]

As soon as he started playing I got chills all over. Amazing

[@Chillazilla2]

I fell like I should be walking through Siberia in the dead of winter with a wolf by my side.

[@kimjongun505]

Shadowed Kiss Denmark not serbia*

[@korppi164]

@@kimjongun505 Or Norway or Sweden.

[@kimjongun505]

Relander tru

[@snortyfox]

I feel this music emulates much more, you lying on the ground in the dead of winter with a wolf chewing on your leg.

[@S3b0rg]

*carrying your agonizing wolf in your shoulders through the freezing cold

[@CaptainGurdy]

I can't say this video changed my life, but it surely did a few good things. I wasn't even aware of the existence of the tagelharpa as an instrument. After I hear this, I started building one on my own. I managed, so I eventually struggled to play it. Then I built a harp. Then I started playing the Crwth. Then I started my own medieval music band, all in a short span of time. So I'd really like to thank Espen for all this. And that's also why it deeply troubles me to read silly comments about the cross he wears. I immediately noticed it and I thought "wow, finally someone who makes good music but is not obsessed with heathenism and vikings and manliness". No offense to heathens, but I tend to be quite against fat nerd haters who pester the Tube with religious ignorance in general. All the best, Espen!

[@espenwinther9065]

Thank you very much! This means more to me than you might know

[@Hallblithe]

Yes! Every time I see historically-illiterate neopagans (there can be no other kind, since, to paraphrase Newman, ‘to be deep in history is to cease to be Pagan’) carping about they-know-not-what on the internet, I cringe and think to myself, ‘but the Pagans all converted!’ C. S. Lewis remarks in a number of his works that he wished modern, disenchanted agnostics could be made pagan again, since they would then be much easier to convert! For all its bluster and bravado, paganism in the end proved weak-it was the crucified Christ who was strong. Our ancestors recognized, as Poul Anderson puts it in his marvellous Viking-age fantasy novel, The Broken Sword (1954), that ‘there are three Powers in the world which not gods nor demons nor men can stay, against which no magic shall prevail and no might shall stand, and they are the White Christ, Time, and Love.’ Literally the only manuscript records we have of Germanic paganism were written-sometimes centuries after the universal conversion of the various people groups involved-by Christians. The process took a few generations in some places, but ultimately, the Danes, Goths, Saxons, Norsemen, and the like all found what they wanted and needed in the Christian Gospel. They threw off their old religion like a bad habit, and their societies grew richer and better (and then enriched and bettered Europe) for it. Some of the best surviving works of literature we have from these people in this period (or indeed, from any people in any period-but here I show my bias!) are wonderfully skillful Christian reworkings of earlier Pagan material (e.g. Beowulf or Njáls Saga). If anyone doubts the enthusiasm with which Germanic folk embraced Christ, let him read the Heliand-it predates the Elder Edda by about four centuries.

[@Ermanariks_til_Aujm]

Of course, they do not call themselves the weak; they call themselves "the good". This christian slave morality is created in opposition to what master morality values as "good". Slave morality does not aim at exerting one's will by strength, but by careful subversion. It does not seek to transcend the masters, but to make them slaves as well. The essence of slave morality is utility: The good is what is most useful for the whole community, not just the strong. Since the powerful are few in number, compared to the masses of the weak, the weak gain power by corrupting the strong into believing that the causes of slavery are "evil", as are the qualities the weak originally could not choose because of their weakness. By saying humility is voluntary, slave morality avoids admitting that their humility was in the beginning forced upon them by a master. Biblical principles of humility, charity, and pity are the result of universalizing the plight of the slave onto all humankind, and thus enslaving the masters as well. The democratic movement is the heir to Christianity -the political manifestation of slave morality because of its obsession with freedom and equality. The Christian god, the poorman's god, the sinner's god, the invalid's god par excellence, and the attribute of "saviour" or "redeemer" as the one essential attribute of divinity. He has come to feel at home everywhere, and is the great cosmopolitan - until now he has the "great majority" on his side. But this god of the "great majority", this democrat among gods, has not become a proud heathen god: on the contrary, he remains a Jew, he remains a god in a corner, a god of all the dark nooks and crevices, of all the noisome quarters of the world! God degenerated into the contradiction of life. To make feeble is the Christian recipe for taming, for "civilizing". Morality is no longer a reflection of the conditions which make for the sound life and development of the people, instead it has become abstract and in opposition to life. The small insurrectionary movement which took the name of Jesus of Nazareth was simply against the Jewish Church. It was an insurection against the "good and just", the whole hierarchy of society - not against corruption, but against caste, privilege, order, formalism. It was unbelief in "superior men". This saintly anarchist, who aroused the people of the abyssm the outcasts and "sinners", the Chandala of Judaism, to rise and revolt against the established order of things - This man was certainly a political criminal. This is what brought him to the cross: the proof thereof is to be found in the inscription that was put upon the cross. He died for his own sins. There is not the slightest ground for believing, no matter how often it is asserted, that he died for the sins of others.

[@adomalyon1]

@@Ermanariks_til_Aujm Ah, yes, master morality, indeed. A phrase concocted by a man so pathetic he could not pick up a single girl, then caught syphillis from a whore he slept with to finally get laid, who crapped on about the dionysian and appolonian morality, yet lived neither. Who talked about seizing the abyss yet spent the last few years of his life staring at the wall in mute horror. Maybe reflect on the fact that after accepting Christianity is when both the Nortmans and the Eastern Varangians/Rus started to really kick ass? In no way was Jesus against heirarchy you are religiously illiterate. The slavery an conformity comes from modernity which in fact is synonymous with atheism. The elites who are doing these horrible things to our society WANT the return of paganism, but you obviously havent figured this out yet, so just keep getting played like a fiddle.

[@Ermanariks_til_Aujm]

​@@adomalyon1 About Nietzsche: First, even if what you said was true, this is a logical fallacy, and has no relevance in the argument. Secondly, we don't know about his sex life. Thirdly, the story of Nietzsche having caught syphilis from prostitutes was actually concocted after the Second World War by Wilhelm Lange-Eichbaum, an academic who was one of Nietzsche's most vociferous critics. It was then adopted as fact by intellectuals who were keen to demolish the reputation of Nietzsche, whose idea of a "Superman" was used to underpin Nazism. He actually probably died of brain cancer. About Christianity: Jesus consistently taught that his followers should abandon and despise their families. Everlasting life is promised to those who leave their present homes and families (Matthew 19:29, Mark 10:29-30 and Luke 18:29-30). “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:26 “For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.” Matthew 10:35 Finally, about Christianization: You could make the same argument stating that Christianity lead to the downfall of the Roman empire, as well as there were pagan civilizations which ruled all over the world for centuries. This is also pointless. It’s not Christianity which made Europeans “great”, it’s Europeans who made Christianity great. Whatever is your definition of great. Look at today, 9% of all Arabs are Christians, 16’000 Muslim Africans convert to Christianity every day, Nigeria has twice more Protestant than Germany, more people go to church on Sunday in China than in the whole of Europe. Only 25% of Christians live in Europe, and 60% of the world’s Christians live in the southern hemisphere. And where is this same “greatness” you pretend the Varangian found by converting in Christianity than isn’t there? It’s not Christianity which made Europeans “great”, it’s Europeans who made Christianity great. Biology exists, Religions are beliefs.

[@Violetcas97]

Mourning. Grief. Anguish. All of these sounds are in the dry, rasping drone of this instrument and I’m amazed at the depth of it. Two minutes was all it took for you to make me feel like I’ve gone to the shores of the river styx and looked out at its hopelessness. Godspeed, friend.

[@dav01kar]

Im in the Carpathian mountains with my bag of tools, garlic, stakes,crucifix.

[@incognitoAye]

Kinda late, but need a second man? I can swing a blade pretty darn well.

[@toprankdavid4629]

I made up a story in my head while listening to the song and i cried like a kid

[@Wsp1457]

Thats the Magic of Horse Hair

[@roberthunter5119]

I could listen to this for hours.

[@n00tlad52]

Same

[@Zed091]

i can see the giant gate of Valhalla slowly opening through my eyes

[@thechiseledbeaver]

this is the best sounding and most beautiful bowed lyre i've heard yet. Well done.

[@cestlavie1892]

This is awesome, i wish it were longer. and the artist looks like he is going to curse us all to davey jones locker. Love it

[@stevesowerby3333]

Love this. It's got to be the most non-metal, metal instrument ever! 🤘

[@ELDRIMmusic]

Thanks!

[@princebonnie1357]

This is deadly. So much depth of feeling, and simplicity of statement achieved. With Thanks.

[@youlazybum6777]

I'm quite late, but every time I hear this, I always get shivers up my spine

[@RadianHelix]

My friend Thomas finished a replica of this instrument, and it has been passed to me to learn how to play it. I want to thank Espen Winther and all of ELDRIM for putting this video online, as is sparked a fire in our hearts, and now here I am, learning how to play an instrument when I've never so much as held one before. It makes sense I'd have this beautiful bastard as my first calling, because I too am a bastard of complicated origins. :p But there's always a way home, no matter who you are or where you've ended up. And the wood and the horse hair are a reminder of that, pointing the way.

[@ELDRIMmusic]

Thank you, Sir! It would be great to see pictures of your instrument!

[@krixig]

Perfect music to lure the Norse horror beasts to your hut during three months of arctic/subarctic night.

[@mathiass1999]

Krixig I admire that sentence

[@acidhendrix]

Wardruna

[@efkastner]

Winter is coming.

[@HighGuy69]

Tyler Unknown i couldn't agree more!

[@fenrirrising131]

bring the hunt to you

[@kylew.6625]

Listening to this and writing dark fantasy...so glad I found this.

[@jojo1234a]

This speaks to my soul and beyond, to ancestors and heritage. Played with every fibre of your being, thank you for sharing.

[@ponylover2206]

This gave me chills. I see someone playing this at a kings funeral

[@resourcedragon]

Whereas I hear it more as the accompaniment to a human sacrifice. In ancient paganism the king's funeral & human sacrifice were one and the same - so, yeah, you're right.

[@orbitalsummer]

That sounds amazing. Somehow gives me chills and make me bare my teeth but is also soothing at the same time.

[@ELDRIMmusic]

Thank you!

[@orbitalsummer]

ELDRIM I have to thank you för this little piece of music. I would like to know how to build one myself or how to get one. Passionate Jack-of-all-trades & currently very deep into this kind of music.

[@ELDRIMmusic]

If you look in the info section for this video you'll find a link to my album og Facebook.

[@secretarchivesofthevatican]

I watch this every so often. It remains utterly inspirational. So simple yet so perfect.

[@MarcusJGrey]

And that just sent chills down my spine in the best of ways. Thank you!

[@dogtag1253]

It is possible to feel a very Viking influence in the melody.

[@nachtschatten5790]

Reminds me of Witcher 3 Music moments.

[@Teemustaja]

Me too. I wonder if they used this instrument in those

[@Simon_A.]

I can highly recommend the video "Creating The Sound - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Official Developer Diary" - it seems as if they have used something similar as a taglharpe ... But you are right - it reminds me of the Witcher 3 music too ... ;-D

[@themanemperorofmankind5207]

I've noticed a lot of similarities between Slavic music and Norse music.

[@tilldeathcomes6611]

+The Motherfucking Emperor of Motherfucking Mankind They're related peoples, Slavic, Nordic, Germanic, Celtic, they're all related. all of their gods are nearly the same, they're identical, language similarities, society structure, even weapons and armor.

[@whennever8202]

fyke isle theme afte you lift the curse sounds a bit familiar, but thats a different instrument of course

[@Stephii_Chuu]

A beautiful song and beautiful playing! Love our culture so much! ❤

[@byngostar6895]

This is a stunning video, the way it is presented. Even the white fur against the dark thunder grey wall. Fascinating. Well done ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@eyeballdude]

I just can’t get enough of this song! It’s magical!

[@michaelsaxonson251]

This is more effective than ASMR videos

[@Lady-Durza-Nightshade-Black]

I'm with you there. Asmr makes my skin crawl, but this is absolutely beautiful and I want more.

[@TheGingiGamer]

@@Lady-Durza-Nightshade-Black Then you aren't listening to the right ones

[@Lady-Durza-Nightshade-Black]

@@TheGingiGamer don't get me wrong, I like it okay if it's ambience stuff, but I hate when they put sounds directly next to the ear spacial wise. Absolutely horrid.

Such an eerie and powerful tune. Well crafted instrument with great tone as well ⚔️🤘🏻🤘🏻⚔️ Awesome!

[@theotakusadventure5845]

Wow! that stunning! i am really impressed by his performance!

[@kristoffcain1135]

To everyone else, the supreme unease, the rumble and shake in his playing comes from imperfectly aligned strands on the bow, creating miniscule amounts of rolling as it passes over the strings.

[@ELDRIMmusic]

True! Or it might just sound like a plain cello ;)

[@sudonim7552]

What we need is throat singing with this instrument playing the backing track

[@Dakka1968]

Name Name the LAST thing the world needds is a mongolian viking. Thats OP. Devs would have to nerf axe or horse archer stat

[@dravenocklost4253]

@@Dakka1968 Its not their fault the rest of the world didn't become ambitious enough to increase their stats

[@Wavemaninawe]

@@Dakka1968 Mixing a Mongol & a Viking. Isnt that the cheat code to unlock Wakanda on the world map? Either that, or '100% critical rolls'.

[@ramz16k]

Your profile pic looked like Ralsei for a sec until I looked a second time

[@ferrangalvezcastaneda4968]

@@Dakka1968 Throat singing isnt just Mongolian. Multiple cultures have done it.

[@winterheathen3906]

I keep coming back to this video, I love it. ♥️

[@julsie3195]

god the lyre is such a beautiful instrument. Such a commanding yet comforting tone.

[@PedroSilva-xl7iw]

Please, we need a much longer version of this!! Greetings from Brazil

[@anonymousperson8317]

Right-click and click on loop.

[@Austin-5098]

How tf did you survive brazil

[@L4dyN1ghtr04d]

Makes my skin tremble, powerful sound, thank you for sharing this! Greetings from Mexico

[@ELDRIMmusic]

Thanks!

[@PRESTIGEOUSNESS]

Celina Guajardo thank you for sharing an interest in our culture and music.

[@ShadowPhoenix82]

Celina Guajardo yeah, there are many saying this is calming, which is a fascinating example of how unique our tastes all are, because I felt this was fast more powerful and exciting than relaxing and calm. It reminded me of epic medieval battle and tense royal court intrigue. I had far different images evoked within my mind than those of relaxation and calm, lol.

[@nexsusarchon5358]

ShadowPhoenix82 Ive Been listening to this kind of music alot recently. Good for Dark Souls. Nice epic gothic feel to it. Truly an interesting culture.

[@VeneficaDelirium]

This is very metal!

[@zaphael7238]

Beautiful, and mournful as it is supposed to sound for a funeral. The sound is so rich, and like many of my favorite music the algorithm put it on my feed and suddenly I find out something exists that I never knew about and it is awesome. Thank you.

[@mithraicpriest7187]

Awesome film making and music, always happy to see a notification about one of your posts

[@espenwinther9065]

Thanks a lot :)

[@xhall0910]

Also Game music. Imagine that in Witcher 3 or Kingdom Come Deliverance. Pure power

[@YuckTradingCo]

Man that thing cranks out some BEASTLY tones! I love it!

[@killmeister2271]

This comment has like an awkward energy to it idk

[@yngbldskzz2017]

this has to be one of my favourite instruments. so haunting yet strangely calming.

[@Nova7o9]

I woke up at 3 this morning, filled with concern and worry. I’m of an age and situation where I feel like life is passing by and all my dreams and hopes are just too far and too time consuming to ever be reality. I’m really distraught. I finally decided to come to KZbin in the hopes of finding something just to help me sleep, and I found this. Somehow it was like all of my worries are encapsulated in the sound and tune. It’s like when you find a word that describes your pain. And just as this song did not play forever, this pain will pass, too. Anyway, I just wanted you to know that this really spoke to me and got me to stop ruminating. What’s strange is the more I listen the happier and quicker it sounds, as though it mirrors the mood of the listener rather than the other way around. And that the cross you wore reminded me where I need to turn for peace. I think I was meant to see this right now.

[@HansBalneger]

These type of lutes are also common in Albanian folklore. However we have a single string one with a ram's head.

[@bigamsterdam9513]

ALBOZ that’s metal as fuck

[@augustusegg7324]

Bowed lyres appear in most of Balkan cultures too. It's amazing how many variations of the instrument exist and how different they sound country by country.

[@user-xr6sv8vt1d]

We in our Slavic lands also had this instrument, it was called "gudok"

[@tegian732]

Lahuta e malsis❤🖤

[@chronos5090]

In Croatia we have the same thing. Rams head and all with one string. We call it "gusla"

[@DaBezzzz]

This feels less like a funeral march and more like a "oh god we are all going to die and get eaten and sent to hell and our nails will be used to build the ship that heralds the end of the world and we'll be forced to fight our still living loved ones under the oppression of a woman whose body is half decomposing corpse" I do like it though

[@Enderplays12]

r/oddlyspecific

[@grderable]

@@Enderplays12 ragnorak is never too specific.

[@myhandlehasbeenmishandled]

With all do respect I'll have to disagree. Sounds like a lullaby to me.

[@justineazrort2708]

I feel like I would dance to it

[@tazgraff372]

It sounds like a funeral March. Just a funeral March for my enemies.

[@michaelklubertanz]

Wonderfully crafted and played!

[@josemanon6295]

Both instrument and musician came from deep past!! Respect.

[@KillinWithKi11Roy]

I like to blare this and wear a chain mail shirt while I sharpen my axe in my driveway. My neighbors are always polite to me as a result.

[@musicforhours4605]

i love this type of music

[@justiceneeded01]

This literally needs to be like 10 hrs long. My soul cannot get enough of it.

[@mayajones2003]

So very beautiful. Just came across this video. So much talent and loving care by the luthier as well as performer.

[@timraack3348]

the sacred harmonies and vibrations only a few understand.

[@Phymatic]

This is incredibly eerie. I'm in absolute awe of the sound.

[@killmeister2271]

Your profile pic is awesome bro

[@valethewolf49]

Amazing. Awesome.Hauntingly Beautiful. Thankyou.

[@globalheart]

Love the sound you came up with 💞

[@J0W3xArtist]

Omg I just fell in live with that sound. It's just so wonderful !

[@thatswhyudie]

you look so authentic i love this pls keep going you inspire me !!!

[@espenwinther9065]

Thank you!

[@user-sf6yh9oy5x]

Довольно тревожная музыка... Но так за душу берет...

[@BallisticAero]

The atmosphere created is a really well appreciated extra step

[@8simonking8]

Very good! I loved listening to this and I could easily fan asleep to this all the time! Never stop playing music, for it is one with your soul!

[@ELDRIMmusic]

Thank you very much!

[@HyouMix]

The man himself looks like a viking

[@PAULOSERGIO-ej1pj]

true, he must be a fan of our Norwegian nation

[@skyline3071]

He is Christian.

[@abyssstrider2547]

Probably not a very good one considering he is a christian and not Asatru.

[@timthetechpriest8876]

@@abyssstrider2547 Being a Christian would have nothing to do with how good of a viking you were, viking was a job not a religion or ethnicity many vikings were christian but that didnt ever stop them from doing viking stuff. in fact one of the most famous vikings ever, Harold Hadrada was a christian.

[@abyssstrider2547]

@@timthetechpriest8876 Oh.

[@Harmonic_shift]

Such a deep sound. The legato with this makes it sound somewhat unnerving which works great for this song!

[@Alsicufe]

The thing I like is that it also emulates (even elevates throatsinging) with the notes. Amazing, thank you ELDRIM.

[@robinmorris5416]

Some things you can feel all the way through your bones, & into your soul....This, is one of those things.

[@gatorrr83]

I’ve watched this video about 10 times in a week. I need one.

[@vantarinitel]

Deathworship me too

[@DavidRice111]

Beautiful woodwork on the bow and the lyre!

[@famvirious]

This is a very cool instrument, thank you for making this

[@nikburisson9-pissedoffpeasant-]

200,000 of the views are from me. Perfect music. Good for any situation- love making, marriage, battle, funeral, relaxing. Thank you again Espen.

[@ELDRIMmusic]

Thank you, Nïk! :)

[@musicsaves71590]

This is the Tom Waits of instruments

[@nyancat2004]

only bad thing about this song is that i didn't discover it earlier.

[@chrisharding5447]

I have just subscribed, and am eating my words- you are prolific in your videos, and I'm spending the next 4 hours watching them!! Ch