Herr Mannelig - The Movie

[@gillespie2482]

This is such a sad but a beautiful story. 😢

[@kath5201]

Had to watch a couple of times before I figured out the "lying tongue" thing. It was the sword!! She claimed it would help him win any battle, but its former owner was obviously dead from a fight....

[@kirgan1000]

Not that all the gifts is "fake" or "cursed" The horses are untrained. The gold is red gold, small amount of gold and mostly copper. The silk shirt, is made of spider's web, hence to fragile to use. The the mills are between two islets, hence under water, etc.

[@kylepeters8690]

I quite like the design of the troll woman. It's simple, but it works. It's a nice mix of uncanny, but still alluring while also allowing it to be done without CGI.

[@eldermillennial8330]

@@kylepeters8690 Right out of a WoW LARP costume kit.

[@eloelo6900]

Friendzone level Herr Mannelig :D

[@todorminchev2123]

best comment XD

[@MafiosiPepperoni]

Haha that should get more likes xDD

[@Chloe_Matthews2143]

No, this is far from the friendzone level even.

[@beehappy79]

Again a better film than what Hollywood produces. And the best: very good costumes - also more historically correct than what is otherwise offered.

[@ateium2409]

She was actually offering him some high quality IKEA products

[@DanksterPaws]

Pretty sure the girl here is Norse and guy is the Swede

[@DanksterPaws]

Disappointed the flixzone virus has made itself here

[@nagihanyz]

ahahahah :P

[@lul4098]

@@DanksterPaws you can’t be norse if Swedes exist. The norse culture was danish, swedish, and norwegian together until it separated too much and became different cultures.

[@DanksterPaws]

@@lul4098 sorry, I meant Norwegian

[@g.v.3493]

An amazing song whose meaning is shrouded in the mists of time. The “troll with the false tongue” is a demonic being tempting Sir Mannelig in a way reflecting the temptations of Christ in the desert. Wealth, power, worship etc. The troll has no connection with humanity so forget the “class distinction” idea (the troll has wealth and power beyond this world). I think the part about “ getting rid of my torment” reflects the theme of setting her soul free if Sir Mannelig can be tempted to give up Christianity and take the troll’s place in Hel (or Hell as we spell it). The unbridled horses were the property of Frey but the troll has the power to confer them upon Sir Mannelig presumably without divine retribution. The sword “giving victory however you fight” is a relative of Excalibur. Does anyone know the significance of the stones of red copper and the mills? This song like the epic poem Beowulf is reflective of the time when Christian and Norse lore coexisted. Thanks for reading.

[@comradesinvolhend5153]

I like your summary

[@haztetv7226]

Yeah, it's exactly as you said. Just a troll, message is the same

[@EmilReiko]

The riddeling and dangerous otherworlder is a trope in Germanic folklore that is much older than christinisation...

[@ghoorn4425]

and most importantly: troll means magic being, so it might have been a sorceress as beautiful as those in The Witcher

[@tarvoc746]

I don't think the "class distinction" interpretation can be dispelled that easily. From a materialist point of view, "wealth and power beyond this world" *is* a mythological metaphor for a wealth disparity that has grown so vast that the lower classes cannot even properly imagine the lives of the upper classes anymore. Now for the record, I actually don't think that's quite what was going on in this song, at least originally (to me it seems to directly reference the conflict between Christians and Pagans during the centuries of Scandinavia's gradual Christianization), but trying to just dismiss the idea that a mythological tale is allegorical simply by refusing to take it any other way than literally is still a fallacy.

[@ОлексійСеливанов]

Perfect! Thank you all for this visualisation and good music story!

[@drako_balu]

I love the ancient scandinavian llamas :D but the other parts are great :)

[@Gadavillers-Panoir]

The troll is indeed trolling Mannelig with the llamas 😂

[@dwellyn]

Pity, she seemed like a lovely girl. Mixed marriages are always hard, but I'm sure they could have worked it out, though holiday gatherings could have been an issue, her relatives trying to eat his relatives and all. But no relationship is perfect.

[@foreverunhappy6860]

That's good and literally the second best comment on my own internet history ever 😅

[@robarans4866]

Herr Mannelig was just being a good Facebooker, he refuses to stoop to the level of engaging with trolls!

[@buesra626]

Why is this comment so underrated

[@muhmuhmachtdieHenne]

@@buesra626 good question :)

[@mfmiller9556]

Lovely. Very well-acted too --- Poor troll! She was really sweet. He looks as if he was sorry he hurt her, but at the end, when his captain is obviously calling him an idiot for wandering off, he's like, "I know, I know. Dodged a dagger!" ;) (I mean, there WAS the body of that other knight to think about, as well as the 'false tongue'... ;) )

[@tarniabook3076]

I loved this. When I first heard the song, I imagined Mannelig completely disgusted, but here it seems he is doubting. He almost kisses the troll. I think either he suspects she's lying and could be a threat, or he feels attracted to her but feels he shouldn't because she is not, in his words, a christian woman; perhaps a mix of both.

[@alexanderzhukov4276]

yep, the lady troll here is hot indeed, while the original version doesn't suggest that at all.

[@lorierush6561]

Yes I think so. It's a bit of both of those things.

[@Forgedwolf]

I love it. Ancients times had very good things.

[@CheshireCat.64]

The love of a mountain troll is so much more than I've ever had. Plus I can't resist pointy ears... 😁

[@alexanderzhukov4276]

Mannelig: Bros, don't blame me. Not an expert on the troll anatomy. What if she has fangs elsewhere???

[@alice_radio]

😂

[@WaterisjustWet]

I don't think it's s3x she wants. Trolls in these days had more carnal desires. They may look green, but were no vegetarians.

[@joshuaracey7967]

What a story! I can't believe how many good stories are out there that I have never even heard of. This would make a great Studio Ghibli film.

[@ATurkeySandwichGAME]

very good singing. i get a chuckle out of the steeds being llamas

[@Nimai_Aquino]

I didn’t even know they had lhamas in europe.

[@tarniabook3076]

​@@Nimai_Aquino The troll must have used her magic to bring them from South America.

[@Trollioli]

Herr Mannelig aint no simp.

[@nocomment6421]

Lol yeah todays men would have married the troll even without all these gifts

[@seneca983]

The troll is the simp here since she's offering some hugely valuable gifts to Mannelig.

[@tikimillie]

Herr Mannelig is the e-girl and the troll is the simp in the chat

[@tikimillie]

@@nocomment6421okay but so what? It was said that trolls actually made for great wives so- whats a troll-like appearence in comparison to a magical life of breakfest in bed. The thing is that faefolk is supposedly without a soul, but they could attain a soul by marrying a human, so while she may have had ultierior motives in that regard, she would still work her ass off for it. Thats old mythology to you. If by troll you just mean an uggo woman, then you’re kinda lame, uggo women can have gifts to give aswell. Both parties need to be able to give something in the relationship, otherwise its just a raft that one person is constantly trying to patch up while the captain is sailing it directly into a malstrom.

[@Meetskink]

@@tikimillie Out of curiosity, what is your source for trolls being good wives? In all the stories I've heard marrying any kind of fae usually ends very very badly for the human

[@photographymatt]

This version was heart breaking :-(

[@Daria-vr6tt]

Лучший клип из всех тех, что я видела под эту песню.

[@astrid7146]

Sir Manneling having second thoughts at the end though

[@jumpingbean69]

Great now I want to hug a sad troll. Thanks.

[@vadsaonystratia91]

Sir Mannelig is so handsome though 😍 ❤️

[@noahmonroy4649]

Never had watch this version.. It's beutifull..! Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽🌮

[@bensisko3]

Really well done, as I think. Also cute is that little bit of the singers' German accent... 😊

[@Anastasis-is-here]

Πολύ ωραίο λαϊκό άσμα, η συγκεκριμένη εκτέλεση είναι η καλύτερη!

[@belalabusultan5911]

she starts out creepy, but gets prettier and prettier as the song goes on.

[@henrikgustafsson6385]

Yes... That old troll crone got better and better at her tricks of glamouring that poor dude.

[@michaelkrauter2634]

Super Song und sehr gut gespielt😊

[@dkoz8321]

Director to casting "I thought I told you to get a mountain goat or mountain ram. Instead you bring me a lama." Casting" Well we could not find a mountain goat. But we found a lama Noone wanted. It's OK Noone will notice the difference. "

[@Bloink]

0:50 I want to salute this attempt at swedish, even though I could tell it is of a foreign actor. I think it's "och" (and) that gives it away the most! It should be prenounced like "mock" in english but without the "M". Also the writing, because it wraps up with the same line by the end of the song, it's all so good! Fantastic job with a fantastic tune! ^_^

[@zippyzonka]

Wow! Fantastic! As a Swede I must say that Chris sings almost perfect Swedish, any less could be attributed to some dialect or just old Swedish pronunciation. I really need to pay attention before I got it that the singers weren't Swedish. And Markus was almost as good. It could even be argued that a very slight german accent makes the performance even better, due to how medieval Swedish was influenced by German. Trollkonans häst var av en intressant sydamerikansk karaktär. 😀

[@Guztenify]

It's far from perfect swedish. I could barely understand a word.

[@darksideforest3407]

Такое творчество заслуживает большего охвата просмотрами

[@jp16k92]

That was an extraordinary adaptation of the traditional song. Beautiful! … I would have said yes…

[@hanschristiaanhylkema]

Very well made! The filming and color correction was on point too.

[@RedcoatHistory-gj7xf]

For those of you who do not know there is an interpretation of the song where the troll represents a pagan woman, meaning the song is about resisting the temptation of apostacy

[@Járnúlfur-Bronsörn5096]

That is one of the two interpretations of this story, depends on the perspective, which in this case is Non-Christians (Asatro and Sami Shamanism) and Christians.

[@Ashireiko_Tatsumi]

"The worst he can say is no."

[@soyelmasguapo]

No more trolls in mountains long time ago.... All Trolls are in internet nowadays..... 😂😂😂

[@sully9767]

Kinda heart rending actually? Very cute! I am very late to this party, but I enjoyed it thoroughly nevertheless and hope you all were proud of doing the song some justice.

[@Anastasis-is-here]

Fantastic work, also fantastic folklore!

[@armakuni1659]

Wunderschön. So kommt die Geschichte aus dem Text wirklich eindrucksvoll rüber. Danke schön. 💚💚💚 Mein Herz hätte sie womöglich erweicht. Weniger wegen der Reichtümer als wegen der Gnade, sie von dem Fluch zu befreien. Kann natürlich sein, daß ich damit einer Lüge auf den Leim gegangen wäre...

[@JeHa1967]

Bin deiner Meinung......

[@Privateerrus]

Шикарное исполнение и достойный видео ряд! Молодцы!!!

[@blacklionsroar271]

Wow...I don't have any words that can express how great this movie is. You definitely deserve an award for this. Great Job.

[@sourmarmalade]

This video should be popular.

[@joskarifinaukr6503]

When I saw the llamas as the twelve steeds, I fully expected the rest of the gifts to be just as strange, like the sword of fifteen rings would be a hilt and pommel with a chain hanging where the blade would be.

[@dmcnare]

I think this version did a great job of catching the moral ambiguity of the song. Did the guy dodge a bullet / avoid a trap? Or did he miss the chance of a lifetime? He'll never know and neither will we. But my guess is that the average listener identifies more with the Mountain Troll than the human guy.

[@GermanFreakvb21]

The song start by telling us in the first verse that she comes with "falskeliger tunga", "a false tongue". So we know from the start he does the right thing in rejecting her. He is the example of a christian man

[@dmcnare]

@@GermanFreakvb21 Christian for better or worse.

[@orlandofurioso4726]

Bin zwar etwas spät dran, aber trotzdem Respekt für die tolle Umsetzung, bitte mehr davon!

[@mah2126]

For information. Garmarna did not do the original version. The tune itself goes back a couple of hundred years. This version was first written down 1877, but it had been around for centuries before that. However, as with so many tunes popular among the commoners instead of the nobility and church, it had not been considered worth writing down before that.

[@issyd2366]

Society did not get interested into and the traditions of the common people and folkculture until the 19th century.

[@Backennyk]

www.samlingarna.sormlandsspel.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/del_I.pdf

[@shannonbarnsley1435]

I believe they meant Garmarna's version has original lyrics (lyrics by Garmarna, not the traditional folk song lyrics).

[@christophlade7796]

Viele nahmen sich dieses Stoffes an, aber diese Version, selbst wenn man sie nur hört, ist die Beste. Respekt.

[@1st508thAirborne]

I really enjoyed your interpretation of this song! Thanks for sharing it! :-)

[@mathewroot1445]

A beautiful portrayal! I loved it. One of my favorite songs.

[@Reicobos]

Her Mannelig has chosen wrong. I've seen 3 times in a row this video, the troll and her singing is extremely mesmerizing.

[@JonathanLundkvist]

Clearly you are under the Trollkona spell! We must purge you with fire!

[@ilsgrade8357]

@@JonathanLundkvist nah, he just wasn't enslaved by christianity and kept his pagan freedom

[@solidonseraindogthetenth1679]

​@@ilsgrade8357 what?

[@Meetskink]

@@solidonseraindogthetenth1679 Just another bigot upset about other people having a different belief system to them, I recommend you ignore them as best you can

[@PessoinhaAleatoria]

What a masterpiece. Very unfortunately underrated.

[@thomasthompson4275]

An absolute masterpiece to an amazing song. Great job.

[@ilsgrade8357]

Fascinating that I can actually understand a lot of it as a german

[@Мойевропейскийжидобандеровский]

Bei Nederlandisch verstehe ich sogar den Sinn des Textes obwohl Deutsch nicht meine muttersprache ist.

[@bonniemcallen5536]

This movie reminds me of the first time I heard the song. .In extremo! No one screams with the pain of her rejection like this band. Lead singer "The last unicorn (letzte Einhorn) nails it !

[@светланаб-й4ы]

Эх, рыцарь! Ты отверг прекрасную любовь, и теперь, ты ни когда не забудешь встречу в лесу! Великолепная постановка, браво!

[@andiblau95]

Viking seeing hot troll "this better not awaken anything in me"

[@issyd2366]

He is actually a knight, not a viking. That is why he is called "sir".The soldiers are also wearing medeival equipment and weapons.

[@bezimiennyz_myrtany1963]

Good, i'm interessed a nardic mitologian,then i must heared this song and buying a books....returned to song... Is GREAT !!!!!!😏

[@Belisarius536]

hollywood and big budget productions should take a look at how the vikings are shown in this video it’s the finest portrayal i’ve seen.

[@ronnycervenka2358]

Einfach nur bombastisch. Ich habe mir das Video dreimal hintereinander angesehen. Über neue Projekte würde ich mich echt freuen. Nur weiter so.

[@yoult]

Herr Mannelig: Um, those aren't horses... Bergatroliet friade: They aren't? Back in Azeroth we'd call them that.

[@LiszkaLupeni]

I must admit that I'm going to watch and listen for the - like fifth or sixth time, because it is really amazing (no matter what the quality of the Swedish is, I don't care). It is so heartbreaking that I've decided to translate it into Czech (I'm Czech) and "finish it" - add a few more strophes. I'll give them a happy ending, I swear. :D

[@morucek]

Jestli jsi hotová mohla bys nám poslat tvou novou verzi textu. :)

[@MistressAngelaAlice]

Alžběta Laurincová Don't give it a happy ending. It's not meant to be. The Whole point of the Tale is that it's a tragedy.

[@Fingolfin455]

Také by mne zajímalo alternativní pokračování. :3 :)

[@haroldgōdwinessunu]

such an odd concept, love it.

[@den2k885]

With a troll like that I'd have said yes at hte second verse.

[@davidlinnemeyer5656]

She would have had me with the firs responsibility sight of those bewitching eyes.

[@richardjones3368]

Me too, I've much worse trolls in Huddersfield on a Saturday afternoon

[@lordofdarkdudes]

idk she mistakes a llama for a horse

[@wintersking4290]

Her face is a little too masculine...

[@BloodyBay]

I wouldn't have even made it that far! Troll Woman: "Sir Mannelig, Sir Mannelig, will you be betrothed to me...?" Me: "Yes." Troll Woman: "But...but I haven't gotten to the part about the gifts!" Me: "I don't need them. The answer's yes." Troll Woman: "You really mean that?" Me: "Yes. How soon can we tie the knot and get to work conceiving the first of our many, many babies?" Troll Woman: "...oh. Now! Right now is good!" And then I break her curse and we all live happily ever after. :-)

[@matyaspaczko4759]

I have never thought about troll girls before, but now it makes sense: they must have existed to maintain those troll populations up there.

[@wisnoskij]

2:53 "mam that is a lama"

[@rifkicelik3239]

like in the film of Troy.

[@shanesprecher8290]

How did they ever get a neck like that? I had one come after me once, they are the spawn of necken. How else could they get a neck like that?

[@davidlinnemeyer5656]

She would have ad me at the llama.

[@FreglaSereneRegyri-xd1jm]

Ого, мне нравится тут все, все знаю это. Мне даже показалось, что это мой плейлист, забавно :))

[@Alex.af.Nordheim]

I would've said yes

[@Ghilbertus88]

A wonderful work, I love it, thank you for your precious effort

[@vickeflikka]

Really cool concept and I applaude you for the great work put in to this! ^^ I can't help but to think that the original meaning with the song is lost in translation a bit though, wich is sad. The song is about a regular woman who tries to get a young man to marry her. But she's a pagan who believes in the norse gods, in a Sweden that's been introduced to christianity these people were called "Bergatroll" or Mountain troll in english (so it doesn't really mean a literal mountain troll). If she manage to marry a christian man she will be accepted in to the society that she's otherwise excluded from. But the man wants nothing to do with her pagan ways and refuses. Don't get me wrong! Didn't mean to come here and bash on the work you've done, it's still an awesome video :)

[@LiszkaLupeni]

That's a perfect explanation!

[@AlejandroVelardez]

Nice! In most interpretations I've seen, the woman is literally taken for a troll. Anyways, the mithological way is also nice, i think both work just fine! By the way, I coudn't find any reliable info about the necken. Are they some sort o evil spirits?

[@vickeflikka]

Alejandro Velardez Necken (or Näcken as we say it in Sweden) is a sort of water spirit. He likes to sit close to water (like lakes and rivers etc) and play his violin. His music is said to be so intensly beautiful that you're drawn in by it. When you come closer he'll talk to you and try to lure you closer and closer until he drags you in to the water and drown you. Some also say that he takes your soul and either eats it or takes it with him to his underwater kingdom. There are some things written about him on wikipedia (the english pages) if you search for Näcken or Neck! ^^

[@AlejandroVelardez]

I saw the entry on Neck, wasn't sure it was the same. Thanks a lot!

[@oskarhenriksen]

"But she's a pagan who believes in the norse gods, in a Sweden that's been introduced to christianity these people were called "Bergatroll"" Source for this?

[@heinoschau8479]

Wunderschönes Lied mit dem Bonus, das es übersetzt ist. :-)

[@darksideforest3407]

Прикольно сняли. И троллиха милая.

[@JohnHunter561]

Sad story... but beautiful music and really really really really well done movie. Tumbs up!

[@lubomirsrda3929]

Skutečný příběh básníka z 1220 léta páně setkání s Trollí princeznou , zhudebněný

[@Gadavillers-Panoir]

Beowulf wishes he could've met this troll.

[@onguc2271]

and female monster wishes she couldnt meet Manneligg . He dont need anything

[@DarkdancingX]

Sehr schön gemacht und vorallem auch dargestellt. Habt ihr vor weitere sollcher Projekte zu machen ? Weil würd mich freuen mehr zu sehen was in Richtung Fantasy geht.

[@hiempsaloezalcesen4174]

Nein

[@AnzhelikaFilms]

8

[@AnzhelikaFilms]

78

[@AnzhelikaFilms]

8

[@rorymcentyre8066]

Beautiful! I applaud your efforts whole-heartedly!

[@ulkeleratlasi]

Yıllardır her versiyonunu dinlerim. 6 yıldır bu klibi karşıma çıkarmayan youtube algoritmasına selam çakıyorum.

[@ulisesramirezsalinas]

wow!! incredible!!! i love all the audiovisual concept!! i felt in medieval time!! thank you for this beautyful gift!!! in other hand...people, just enjoy this travel and forget the Llama!

[@wijeslawaaa]

this yötun lady is so beautiful! like I'm a female and I'd marry her even without any gifts

[@shannonbarnsley1435]

Right? I’m a straight woman and I’d still marry her.

[@twisters999]

GREAT! Thanks for Polish subs! :D it's a kind of language learning :)

[@christopherx7428]

I understand the text but I doubt that my grown children would. It is very beautiful old Swedish. My only objection is the tautology "ungersven" - "Sven" is by itself a young man. (or was of old)

[@david82633]

That's how it's written in the original

[@crysvicious]

This is awesome :) Great work everyone

[@AndreP81]

Wonderful....so everyone understand....i love this legend....thx

[@darksideforest3407]

Милота. Респект создателям.

[@WildAuthoress]

Captivating! So beautifully done. Thank you for all your hard work !

[@pittsop8293]

Imagine how beautiful this woman is, she looks absolutely perfect even if she's been dressed as a troll!

[@ricardocastillo5485]

Getting an old-fashioned from that 3-fingered hoof-hand might be a deal breaker.

[@NORDWOLF4]

Way better than any Disney movie.

[@Vielseitig]

Nice work. thank you! Love the song and this is the first time I saw a video of it.

[@e-deternaldatabase4721]

wtfff how did you get lamas on skandinavia !

[@scarsh3130]

There are quite alot of them up here but not in the wild of course

[@e-deternaldatabase4721]

@@scarsh3130 In the viking era ?!

[@scarsh3130]

@@e-deternaldatabase4721 Yeah maybe not then😂

[@issyd2366]

@@e-deternaldatabase4721 No, and not in the middle ages either which is where song is taken place ;) Sir Mannelig is a knight.

[@yllejord]

She's the worst mountain troll, mate.

[@amirdedic9278]

BRAVO. POZDRAV IZ BOSNE.

[@veronikaradova5376]

Imagine herr mannelig ride that llama to battle.

[@liambanner3003]

The bravest of mounts is a llama.

[@chaidodimadi7014]

Herr Mannelig is hot

[@Taseman]

The Troll is breathtaking

[@houssemehsn]

Stop trolling

[@chaidodimadi7014]

@@houssemehsn I'm not 😂

[@светланаб-й4ы]

Ты, Светлый рыцарь, ни когда не забудешь деву-тролль. Ты познаешь любовь женщин, но всегда будешь думать о ней!

[@xxxchild_predatorxxx107]

Z

[@GodmyX]

Wow, that was awesome! That's how I imagine a music clip!