HE IS SO UNIQUE!!!!!!!!! Blind reaction to Colm McGuinness - My Mother Told Me (In Old Norse)

[@TheSuperPsychaholic]

This song was originally an Icelandic poem by a man named Egill Skallagrímsson, it was written about what his mother told him when he was 7 years old after he had been beaten at wrestling by some older kids. Egill had always been a sore loser and very dangerous even as a kid so he went home, stole his father's axe and killed the older boy who beat him everyone was furious with him except for his mother who told him one day he'd become a great viking which he later did

[@emmathorpe4955]

HE HAS A HEAVY METAL VERSION OF THIS SONG!!!!!

[@bubsmomma]

He played all instruments. This man has mad talent

[@yatzy7510]

His pronunciation is amazing! Coming from a nordic person

[@ServantOfOdin]

Yeap, learned old Norse by Dr. Jackson Crawford and his pronounciation is quite perfectly spot on. Just one or two slightly wrong ones from what Academia says, but meh, I can live with that.

[@candilunsford2878]

Try his Misty Mountains in Dwarvish. *shivers

[@toddmaliepaard9777]

That's next month's request, and the metal version after that

[@barbarakennedy2667]

It is Colm. Of course it is good.

[@JaqueDark]

I think you might mean contrast? The higher tones layered over the more bass notes give it such an amazing contrast. This song and also If I Had A Heart in Old Norse is one of my favourite... he set the bar pretty high for doing it in the original lingo.

[@toddmaliepaard9777]

Will have to get the metal version of this in front of you sooner or later. It's is harder than anything you've heard from him so far 😅

[@WildLupine9]

If you lost your everything with this one you should check out Colm's Misty Mountains in Dwarvish. He has a normal and metal version. Probably my favorite thing from him

[@toddmaliepaard9777]

Normal version is next month's request, and the metal one is the month after

[@thepeanutgallery2486]

All of my hair is standing on end, and I don't think it'll lie back down for a week.

[@terimingle8957]

HOLY %#*&!!!! That was scary and awesome…and scary!! Did I mention scary???

[@owlcat529]

3:55 if you really want to hear something that would cause armies to turn and run, look up what a celtic war horn or carnyx sounds like. It's eerie to hear while safe at home, but imagining being a soldier out in a foggy field and hearing that in the distance is just terrifying.

[@rulab]

This was brilliant! I love hearing Colm do something so different, his voice is so unique! Thank you Todd for getting this one in front of DJ! Great choice as always! By the way, DJ, what...what exactly did you mean by "grab where my heart should be"...??? umm...Sir, you might MIGHT need to get checked at the doctors... XP Another great reaction though Sir, as always!

[@mimic1176]

I love this song and have never heard this version. This is incredible! But then it's Colm, so what else could we expect? Thank you for a great reaction! I feel like I've just heard this song for the first time. Gorgeous!

[@Jennifer_J_C]

Thanks 😊

[@retrospect6904]

I would definitly check out his norse metal version of this song, he dials his vocal capability to 11

[@gilliandrysdale5306]

wow that was intense ❤

[@Captainalexstars94er]

Colm mcguinness is very good i love this guy very much ❤, what a Awsome Proformance!

[@mikistenbeck6517]

to people that don't know this is a Viking Chant, it must sound like he's trying to summon a Demon. XDD maybe that was the point back when it was sung regularly over 900 years ago?

[@RayvenQ]

Well, it's a poem from a verse of the Icelandic Saga of Egil Skallagrímsson. Basically this verse tells how Egils mother is going to buy Egil a ship to go join the vikings since he's a bit of a murderous shit, having killed his first person (a fellow child) at the age of 7.

[@mikistenbeck6517]

ho-@@RayvenQ okey, yea. Egil was nuts, XD

[@AngelaWalker]

Now you need to listen to the version he did with Bobby Bass and Jonathan Young

[@TardisCoreST]

Wow. What a voice. The atmosphere in his voice and arrangement reminds me strongly of Heilung. He envokes that same almost hipnotic, trance-inducing feeling. Just glorious. Check them out, if you like music like that. They are phenomenal.

[@TeahVickery]

You absolutely need to check out his Old Norse metal cover of this! You thought this one made you feel like running...

[@toddmaliepaard9777]

We will see if he gets to that one, Colm is currently leading the polls for next week. My next 2 picks are his Misty Mountain Dwarvish covers

[@TeahVickery]

@@toddmaliepaard9777 I'm so sad I don't have the income to be on Patreon and take part! I trust your choices when it comes to Colm, though, and Misty Mountains in Khuzdûl is, for me personally, having been a Tolkien fanatic since I was 4, is the most epic he has. I will never be sad to see that video on anyone's channel!

[@carlshumaker7282]

Peyton does a version in old Norse as well

[@xtoxicxxkitten8875]

I think Colm is the only other Bass singer who can get on Eric Hollaway's level 🤣. His bass is insane!!!!

[@tari6085]

Great reaction! I swear, Colm is magnetic. If you're looking for more Norse Viking songs, Peyton Parrish has several.

[@debbie3109]

Congrats on 15K!!!

[@wouterdgrove7506]

This song will either make you a terrified baby, or make you grow a beard and suddenly hold a battle axe

[@sheilaisaacs981]

New sub here you had me at Colm McGuinness

[@terezastastna941]

❤

[@KaaSerpent]

It's terrifying, isn't it? :)

[@therealEmpyre]

You probably already have, but if you haven't, check out Voiceplay's version of this same song.

[@scar445]

The morning was quiet and lazy, as it always was. the geese were running round and gulping down snails with delight, the dogs paced around the butchers shop, the small children runningthrough the streets, absorbed in their plying. The mason was instructing his apprentice on the secrets of stone carving nd the monks were headed to the beach to collect clams and check the eel traps Then a dark and impossibly deep voice reached us from the thick fog covering the sea. "Þat mælti mín móðir At mér skyldi kaupa Fley ok fagrar árar Fara á brott með víkingum Standa upp í stafni Stýra dýrum knerri Halda svá til hafnar Hǫggva mann ok annan Hǫggva mann ok annan" That was the beginning of the dark times.

[@MaxDawson-u5t]

Try his Viva La Vida cover

[@kimmalone2302]

Good... but i love Dan Vasc's metal version much more..not apologizing 😂

[@Thnielsen85]

Technically it's not old norse, it's Icelandic. Not exactly the same, but close :)

[@RayvenQ]

The only thing I don't like about the English version of this song is to say the least... Not very well translated. For instance the line "standa upp í stafni" is translated to "stand up on the prow" whereas properly translated its more "stand up in place at the stern" which makes more sense with the following lines saying to hold course till safe harbour, since viking ships were steered at the stern. It also makes sense because the owner of the boat (in this case who the mother told, Egil Skallagrímsson) was often the steersman responsible for guiding and steering the ship.

[@RayvenQ]

Here's my amateurish attempt at more accurately translating the song, it's not word for word, but word for word some stuff is implied : That said my mother I will have to buy and give to you Swift ship and fair (beautiful) oars Travel on break (waves/tide) with raiders Stand up in place at the stern Steer wild beast ship Hold so till haven Hew (one) man and another. It is a poem so some things are poetic, other things are Kennings, which dont translate all that literally.

[@RosheenQuynh]

Peyton Parrish's is just as good as this! Colm's is much darker though

[@gvonhellsing2]

If this version gets you, you should really check out his metal version of the same song, and check out his singing in Dwarven to the song of Misty Mountains.