ælfléoð - Full Album - Anglo-Saxon Lyre

[@Grendelcynn]

The sheet music to this tune and many others are in my book Norþhærpe - How To Play Anglo-Saxon, Viking & Germanic Lyres + 80 Tunes www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09NGXZMDW

[@bardoffairyhills]

Wow so nice book! That book is for 7 strings? Or 6 strings?

[@Grendelcynn]

@@bardoffairyhills It's for 6 and 7 string, 90% of the tunes will work on the 6 string, about 10% on the 7 string only.

[@bardoffairyhills]

@@Grendelcynn Thank you!! I'll get 6 strings!! I'm going to order this book!!

[@Grendelcynn]

@@bardoffairyhills Thanks, I find a 7 string is better for strumming and a 6 string is better for plucking.

[@bardoffairyhills]

@@Grendelcynn I see! I really want to try that soon.

[@robertbuckey6517]

Only 800s kids will remember.

[@Lovetoskate]

Grimly thought you typo’s then thought about it 😂🤦

[@LPeck1985]

Underrated comment. 😂👍

[@TylerHellums]

Reminds me of the time edward and I were drinking an ale when I snuck his seax from it's sheath and hid it up my sleeve. He was looking for it all next day😂

[@LPeck1985]

@@TylerHellums M'lord, those were the days!

[@tylerdelgregg7879]

@@TylerHellumsThat was you??!

[@bigoneeye4531]

the drunken trolls ballet is a straight banger love the album

[@wilddoguk]

I love the traditional anglo-saxon music. It speaks to an old song that sleeps within me. Then I hear this and feel something awaken. It still needs something to wake the old spirits, but once awaken, they speak the old stories!

[@loganplank504]

They really hit an ancestral nerve don't they

[@RachelTaylor-m7g]

I see myself on my white horse in green and my gold crown on top of the cliff top and the sea below awaiting the warriors return . A protector of the realm and a lover of the woods 💜

[@zbavamusic]

Amazing work, I feel here deep spiritual connection with Anglo-Saxon ancestors, I will follow you future work for sure!

[@NotACutie]

Truly felt myself in the forest and it felt oddly homelike, is there something within me awakening?

[@TheSpookiestgoose]

We have invented nothing. Amazing amazing work my friend! I grew up in the rural south, and i hear so much of my traditions in this! (obvious i know, but its different to actually hear it!)

[@stephencrompton4352]

Makes sense, though, as there is a continuous musical tradition from Medieval Britain to Bluegrass, which is almost like a cousin now to modern traditional music in England, Scotland, and Ireland.

[@Choir_pilot]

I remember playing on this lire in the village square..... I still remember like if it was yesterday..

[@saxon6749]

We approve.

[@ethanboy3006]

saxon????? is it the real you?????

[@saxon6749]

@@ethanboy3006 It's the real Saxon!

[@loganplank504]

saxons 🤝 Vikings

[@lonestarenglund7394]

Thanks for sharing, perfect thing to get me in the mood to explore Knepp 🌳🌻🙏

[@alejanrromercado9395]

Exelente música. Hermosos instrumentos musicales!

[@loganplank504]

gracias! anglosajon aleman 🤝 gotho-hispano-romanos

[@leornendeealdenglisc]

Very cool.

[@christianfreedom-seeker2025]

Great stuff! Been a long night of rediscovery!

[@alanwoodcock3284]

My inner spirit has woken,my ancesters have spoken.

[@Vulture8111]

Beautiful!

[@freedomwatch3991]

Nice. I'm not ethnically english but eald Anglisc and eald Anglosaxon culture is pretty interesting. Wes hala !

[@Grendelcynn]

I'm interested in the history, culture and music of pretty much everywhere in the world.

[@rodrigoenenamigo4542]

Hail travellers!

[@eleanorsopwith9806]

Hail! 😀

[@elwolf8536]

Hail wes þu

[@banjotracks1]

I love this music!

[@intoarut]

Amazing work!! I've just subscribed!!!!!!!!!

[@oldenglishandlyre]

Thank you. Very generous of you.

[@sidvicious4186]

The hearts of the Anglo-Saxons are full once again and a reawakening in England and her colonies is upon us.

[@0808phoenix]

Are you kidding? What colonies? Do you know, that they're independent?

[@richardanderson8696]

Are you kidding? Modern DNA evidence shows us the English people are more Brythonic than Germanic. The English are only around 10-30% Saxon. The Saxons ruled over us, but they didn't replace us.

[@tillik1004]

@@0808phoenix You can never be independent from your DNA bloodlines.

[@Buydaa.M]

​​@@tillik1004yes UK,US, CAN,AUS,NZ brothers, sisters and cousins

[@tillik1004]

@@Buydaa.M Always

[@ronaran8420]

Ken Follett's The Evening And The Morning brings me here. That timetraveller's experience is brilliantly backed up by this soundtrack that sets authentic atmosphere during moments of reading.

[@cwilliams6884]

this go hard af

[@jahnavareza4162]

My soul dance integrates the past with the present, and what I am near to becoming. My memories are been mutating through my cells, through time, a bloody eternal love affair.

[@MrTuturut]

Nice and peaceful music. I like it. Bravo!

[@LearnRunes]

This resonates with the soul. Are you going to make more albums?

[@Grendelcynn]

I was planning on one a year for the next few years, at the moment I have plenty of material.

[@hræfnwarianMLXVI]

Nice been looking for something like this.

[@oldenglishandlyre]

Bought it ! Can I have the images to make the CD cover. I'm old fashioned, I like physical media .

[@nordicsoundchannel]

Hey man this is a great little collection of tunes for a cool instrument that's been eclipsed by the popularity of the kravik! Thank you for this.

[@leandroscorieltauvorum]

ic lufige hit! 😁

[@MalcolmMaynard-l2x]

Nice!

[@hanterdrone3868]

These are some sweet tunes you have there. Thanks for sharing. Have you taken the traditional tunes as an inspiration for your own?

[@Grendelcynn]

These tunes mostly inspired by my backround in Metal, Folk and Medieval music.

[@sifridbassoon]

I've been playing early music for years, but mostly on early woodwinds. I'm hoping to branch out into some earlier areas, and am confused by all the types of lyres. Can you tell me the difference between a Saxon lyre and a Trossingen lyre. They look pretty similar.

[@Grendelcynn]

Lyres while widely spread across southern Europe and the middle east in all shapes and sizes. In Northern Europe are only found in England, Germany, Netherland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway and in one design (with regional variations) suggesting a common origin. Of all the countries mentioned the German ones differ the most. Some are slightly different shaped and in the case of the Trossingen have a large soundbox with holes, giving it a louder volume.

[@dylparl6057]

May I ask what strings and how exactly you were tuned for Wulf & Aedwacer? I own your book and I've tuned to Major G Hucbald's, but mine doesn't quite sound the same. I have a BrandonJohnLuthiery 7 string with metal strings.

[@Grendelcynn]

Hi, thanks for buying the book, happy to answers any questions you have. Your tuning is correct, so I can't think what's going wrong. Is it the whole tune that sounds wrong or just part? Also do other tunes written in the major scale in the book, sound correct? The string type shouldnt matter, just the tuning. Across my vids I have used 3 sets of strings. The oldest vids I'm using flourocarbon strings tuned pretty high, usually around G. For the middle period I using gut strings, and recently I have changed to fairly low flourocarbon strings usually tuned somewhere around E Major.

[@dylparl6057]

@@Grendelcynn Frankly I'm unsure - I could just be slightly out of tune, I read further into your book and I was storing my instrument in another room that was cooler, and then playing it in a warm room. I noticed the sound would shift after an extended practice session. I'm also brand new to the instrument, so my attack could also be the issue. I did want to ask - given you respond so promptly, if I were to send you proof of purchase / pic of the book - is there any way I could get a scan? I'd love to put the tabs up on my computer screen so I can see it while I play, I have no way to keep the book upright and I struggle to read it flat on my table and play at the same time (I suck). Let me know, I can email you or if you use discord I'm happy to use that as well. Thanks - Dylan

[@Grendelcynn]

​@@dylparl6057 I don't own a scanner and the book is scattered all over a folder in individual pictures and pieces of text.... However why not just photo it with your phone (use the inbuilt scanner even) and save the jpgs in a folder. Then you can see them on your tab. Thats what I do, I have all the jpgs of the sheet music I have accumulated pover the years on my phone. I have a go to melody that uses all 6 strings. It's the first thing I play when I pick up my lyre. If it sounds good, I play on, if something sounds wrong I reach for my tuner.

[@SNAAAAAAAKE]

Fantastic! Liked, subscribed and got the book. I'm a guitar player for many years but recently have had problems with the index finger on my fretting hand. I'm hoping switching to lyre will allow me to continue to play, otherwise it will be drums and flute 😄can you tell me please, is there a lyre you recommend for beginners and how many strings to have for the songs in the book? Many thanks

[@MICHAEL-wg2lh]

Never realised the Saxons had adverts in their music ruining it back then

[@Grendelcynn]

@MICHAEL-wg2lh not much to do about it, unfortunately. This channel is unmonitorised, but youtube sticks its own ads in.

[@GTX1123]

I could write really cool metal material w these melodies. The lyrical content would great too; mercenary Saxon brothers Horsa and Hengest who arrived in Viking style long boats and whipped up on the Picts. The infamous "night of the long knives" when they betrayed the Britons by hiding their "seax" knives at a parlay feast. Fast fwd to centuries later and there's plenty of cool material from Alfred's defeat of the Great Heathen army too.

[@Grendelcynn]

Glad you noticed. I come from a metal background, so I'm really just playing metal on an acoustic instrument whenever I play a tune.

[@mattliamjack3293]

Kids then...staring into thier vellum parchments 😂😂

[@cana0]

Great music! I'll use it in my Dundeons and Dragons campaign

[@jamiekomodo1751]

The first rune in your spelling is oak not ash, but your non-runic version uses an ash. However, I think it's conceivable that it could be spelled with an A and not an Æ. It might still read your intended "Elf Song".

[@Grendelcynn]

I made the runic logo many years before I made the album and never noticed the typo.

[@jamiekomodo1751]

@@Grendelcynn Impressive design: gold leaf on parchment paper with Anglo-Saxon patterned Wyrm patterned illustration is both striking and fitting.

[@JasonIreton-b6w]

Every race on this earth can celebrate its culture, except for the English. Carry on your good work. We English are not so bad.

[@Grendelcynn]

I think heritage and culture are two completely different things..... It is part of our culture to force our culture on other countries, whether they want it or not, we did this to an unwilling world at sword, bayonet and musket point, for centuries, destroying most of the world's culture and replacing it with ours. So English culture is pretty much the world culture, and not ours alone any more. However Anglo-Saxon Lyre playing died out a millennia ago I think it is heritage not culture and we even have, English Heritage, which gets billions from the government to help us celebrate that.

[@JasonIreton-b6w]

If only...@@Grendelcynn

[@terrybrown3709]

Where can I get a copy?

[@Grendelcynn]

I've added a download link

[@WaterOrton41]

Ti's lovely and all. Authenticity references, etc pls. Need lineage to known pieces.

[@andrehege-du4iq]

Musick ° • ▪ ¤ °♡ ♡

[@GriffinHistorical]

Hi, how can i contact you regarding a project I'm working on for this coming october?

[@Grendelcynn]

you could email me at [e-mail]

[@langsnek07]

Why not on amazon or apple music at least to buy

[@Grendelcynn]

Hi, it's on Bandcamp link in pinned post, completely free to download.

[@baggerz4448]

Repent

[@Dryhten1801]

Why are you commenting this here?

[@Grendelcynn]

Album can be downloaded here free... grendelcynn.bandcamp.com