Ormurin langi

The faroese kvæði about the norwegian king Olav Tryggvason.
The dance is the traditional faroese ringdance.
Føroyingar fara upp á gólv

[@talonsoftheraven6693]

TYR sent me here and i have to say what fantastic folk music the Faroe Islands have , respect from Ireland i will come to visit soon! this to me is pure power!!

[@talonsoftheraven6693]

Your opinion is valid to you but not to those who hold such music in high regard, your loss , the song continues all the same and no slander will ever stop it!

[@meatspin17779]

Yeah, after seeing what you like, no surprise there.

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

ther is much celtic blood in faroe islands and names words

[@talonsoftheraven6693]

@@asbjrnpoulsen9205Yes our combined history goes back far and deep, Ireland will never forget our old friends to the far north, True is your music and true is your will to survive, i have nothing but admiration for such a people. Faroe Islanders be proud and stand strong , begin the song and chain dance again and continue forevermore into eternity!

[@ArthurGoodness]

@@talonsoftheraven6693 So, 4 years ago you said you were coming to visit soon? Have you visited yet?:D

[@andreasiversen3440]

This is just awsome.

[@Sander00]

@@AlxzAlec no it is not Danish

[@xdemmons]

My ancestry is Norwegian and Swedish. Love to you all! Respect!!!

[@thenorthernguyupontheicesh5304]

This is great, I wish our great king would have been able to avoid the cowardly ambush by the swedes and Danes, but alas it's history and our great ship has long been lost. Such a great song from the islands, and great to still see it being song today! We still sing the Norwegian version but it's nothing compared to this! Alle mine lykkeønskninger til Færøyene, flott sang! Akk, jeg ønsker meg tilbake til det gamle norske riket med Færøyene, orkenøyene, Island og Grønland alle samlet under den norske konge!

[@friiJustesen]

Vit øll eru í familju vit eru *víkingar!* :) Norskt, Føroyskt og Svenskt vit øll kunnu forstanda hvørjum orðum :)

[@omega1231]

Swedes, Danes and Norwegians* ;)

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

det skulle vare kong sverre han ville ha klarat svenskan han kom fra farøyerne og tok hele norge

[@AlxzAlec]

Jarl Erlend IV Faroe islands is Denmark forever

[@Akillesursinne]

Ambushes is part of war. Olav knew this. He played the game and died fighting.

[@snurrespratt6765]

Big respect from Sweden. It´s great you keep the nordic traditions alive!

[@HauptmannMeyer]

As a Norwegian, I can understand these lyrics. Awesome, just awesome :-)

[@einherjen]

This is the best historylesson i ever had! :-) Greetings from danmark

[@thomascampbell127]

Me too

[@larsjohanberge4684]

I am so happy to see nordic and Norwegian Heritage still beeing alive here >3

[@friiJustesen]

This is faroese.

[@friiJustesen]

***** This story is about our lives with the king this story is made in our country we found out that is was constructed in 1800' other stories we sing have unkown date and may be more than 1000 years old

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

he was king of faroe island to

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

we have ólavsvøka ólavsøka the biggest celebration in faroe islands

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

one norse king probably the greathest was coming from faroe islands and took all norvay and made it to one kingdom

[@lapzap56]

Kan man søke kulturelt asyl på Færøyene?

[@Lyraorganum]

Hahah! :D Skjønner hva du mener.

[@PrimusRaven]

Its good to see young people carrying on old traditions :D

[@minimaxhall]

Hørte denne sang(kvad) i mellomtrinnet på B/U skola for snart 15-20 år sida her på Høylandet i Norge. Glad for at det er på youtube.

[@friiJustesen]

Tos bara Norskt :) Vit øll Føroyskt, Norskt og Svenskt kunnu øll tosa saman við okkara málið! Vit øll forstand hvør og annan! :D

[@Yuksel709]

It gives me goosebumps.Why i dont know. Amazing dance, amazing music amazing lyrics. Greetings from Turkey to Viking people.

[@Lucius.1973]

AWESOME!! MY BLOOD IS BOILED, MY ANCESTER CAME TO CHILE FROM DANEMARK...MAYBE FROM FEORE ISLAND....MY RESPECT AND ADMIRATION FOR THAT TRADITIONS!

[@AlxzAlec]

Lucius kattallon First of all what are you saying and second of all why do you have that profile pic

[@galdur666]

Mjög flott! Færeyingar eru bestir!

[@badgerdubhghaill5480]

It's decided. Faroe Islands for my next holiday

[@lucasteixeiraaraujorego8655]

Amazing! The best folk dance that I have ever seen! And the music is very beautiful and brave. Awesome!

[@helgipunk]

Elsku Færeyingar, bestu vinir og bræður Íslendinga, þið eruð yndislegt fólk og við elskum ykkur.

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

her frá ár 1929 kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3rEZKmZp7ulgtU

[@HeathenryRS]

Tradition at it's finest.

[@bryndisgeirsdottir]

Ég elska færeyinga! Þið eruð best.

[@fiddeff]

You are really the crown of nordic culture, big up Föroyar!

[@ofnair]

This was like hearing pure magic. Thank you from Sweden for this.

[@rangersteve481]

It's the strong sense of community that moves me here. The music, the rhythm, the closeness. A strong Viking people facing difficult winters in the far north supporting each other in a close community. This dance is a validation of that support. My ancestors were there. I wish I could be there too.

[@PenttiLinkola23]

Absolutely wonderful. Regards, Lars, Denmark

[@hagsmunamadurinn]

Ég er íslenskur og maður því mestmegnis af þessu, sem er gaman. En annars rosalega fallegt lag og flott þjóðdansamenning sem þið hafið þarna í Færeyum.

[@DireWolf64]

As an icelander I understood most of the lyrics!

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3rEZKmZp7ulgtU ár 1929

[@xdemmons]

Greetings from the United States! My family emmigrated here from Norway many years ago, and I love looking back at Norse culture. I love this video and have played it many times. I wish I could understand Old Norse better...I am picking up a few words anyway....Would love to be singing with them! Hilsen! John Johansen

[@Ceminon]

This is really cool. I respect such will to keep traditions alive.

[@robinlundqvist5035]

Big love and respect to the people of the Faroese nation!. This Is pure power to me and I am grateful to have found this. I wish young Swedes had more interests in our native traditions and culture. Today Its just American crap culture and Hiphop, other depressing shit that glorifies Ego, violence and Sociopathic behaviour among young people. Länge leve det Färöiska folket!

[@VonHanneman]

I am showing my respect to all these people who danced and the one who uploaded the video. Salud! Cheers from Mexico City!

[@HildebrandNoson]

just BEAUTIFUL!

[@kloetenpaul]

i wish i could ever be a part of this awesome culture ande music, i could never mentionend this energy and power in this music, just a dream :)

[@Ghazebu]

Это одна из моих любимых песен, в принципе. И это исполнение великолепное. Только смотреть на хороводы хасидов как-то интереснее, чем на хороводы викингов.

[@GiovanniGrosskopf]

Fantastic document. Thank you!

[@BbBb-vd2sj]

Elsku bræđur og systur í Færeyjum, þiđ eruđ bezt! Kveđjur frá Íslandi Lengi lifi Færeyjar

[@ReadyDaddy]

sounds beautiful

[@mrSnotyify]

It's only natural that when you age you become more interested in your origins and tradition, trust me.

[@ragnarthelibrarian]

This video, brings tears to my eyes. 10/10

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

here they dance in year 1929 kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3rEZKmZp7ulgtU

[@alarik36]

They sing old germanic songs like Regin Smidur about Siegfried/Sigurdur the dragonslayer etc. Ormurin Langi.. It´s called kvaddans, it´s performed as a long row of people, the one to the right holding the thumb of the one to the left etc, stomping extra hard when something exciting is happening like Sigurdur´s death, the mourning by Hjördis etc.. Olaf Tryggvasson´s last minutes, attacked by norwegians, danes and swedes. On our runstones known as "Då konungar kämpade.."

[@theosar]

Flott video, ett herligt folkeslag! Eg ønske våre brødre og søstre der ute i havgapet alt vel.

[@geirtonnessen2566]

Respect! Thank you Faroe Island!

[@xdemmons]

I emailed this website to my cousin in Norway. He could barely understand the Old Norse brought here by the Norwegian Vikings..He said that the text helped alot with the translation. This language has not been spoken in Norway for centuries..I am glad that the culture lives on in the Faeroese!

[@sylvarias]

Vilken trevlig dans! Den skulle man önska att det fortfarande fanns en liknande version av i Sverige, dock med annan sång och text haha :D Respekt till alla färöingar (och hela norden för den delen!).

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

der er en liknande dans i sverige kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5Tbk3esrLuNr9U

[@borrewerner]

Ifølge Snorre var det over 600, mens historiker Olav Bergersen kom til litt over 300 vikinger ombord.

[@Kringsat81]

Incredible song and performance. Respect from Denmark : )

[@Ockula]

This is so awesome. Respect from your fellow vikings in Sweden!

[@saevaroa]

Það er ekkert mál að skilja þetta. Ég kem frá Íslandi.

[@AlkanmyshYngyr]

Greetings from France !

[@Trymskvadet]

"The Battle of Svolder" A tribute to Olav Tryggvason, the great Norwegian viking and his ship "Ormen Lange" (The Long Serpent). It was the greatest ship in the viking era with 130 of the best Norwegian vikings. They getting ambushed in a naval battle by a coalision of the Danish and the Swedish king and some Norwegian enemies. They fought bravely, but the enemies was to overwhelming

[@torvilasulvstle362]

Sorry, it was NOT the biggest ship in the Viking Age. Knut the Great build one that was bigger and Fillipus Earl had one bigger in ca 1190. Then Hakon Hakonson ca 1250/60 had two that was bigger, Mariasuden and one other (I think it was called Christsusden). Well, if you say the Viking Age ended 1066 at Stanford Bridge, you can forget the three last one!

[@TheOneAndOnIyCake]

Mikið hvað ég elska hvernig færeskir menn halda menningu sinni lifandi

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3rEZKmZp7ulgtU

[@OlafThorstensen]

Det er noko liknande til norsk "Leikarring", særlig på vestlandet!👍

[@LarS1963]

The dance and this manner of singing, with the skippar starting each verse and the rest joining in is something unique to the Faroe Islands. Many of the old songs, this one as one example, exists all over Scandinavia. Many of the tales told also exists in the sagas or other medieval prose, such as the Song of Roland or Niebelungenlied.

[@Iamthemaster2]

faltie gu alba. watching this video reminds me of old highland culture that is long lost to the likes of the clearances.

[@arildsolemdal6966]

I wanna go here, and participate in this song - then I can die happily :D

Seen that, been there, it is just hypnotising. Whole song would be over 22 minutes long so before end you can sing the chorus pretty well

[@hagsmunamadurinn]

Frá Reykjavík. Ég mæli með Heimskringlu, góður lestur það.

[@Decano25]

Great video and song ! I would like to learn the lenguage its awesome

[@Jahosaphax]

I find it fascinating. the way you say your words in your tongue is perfect for poetry.

[@Rovarin]

Because there is a lead singer (with the longer ballads there are sometimes two) who starts the stanza and the others join in. The chorus is the same and sung between every stansa, and is usually easy to remember. This ballad is longer than 9 minutes. It is about 83 or 85 stanzas long, can't remember.

[@maggisclipsofthemonth3952]

snilld, - kveðja frá Íslandi.

[@IhanaPuhuaSuomi]

I wish they sung songs like this in Germany.

[@notexactlyrocketscience]

Melkutus We used to, 1000 years ago. We had many types of singing of dancing. But we lost that connection to our rich heritage, the Northmen kept it and our shared religion going - for whatever reason. Which is why they also have more runic texts, unlike Germans who simply weren't into writing stuff down or maintaining an oral tradition. All the tribal heritage is lost forever, and songs like that above only offer a hazy glimpse into our own past. Just imagine how awesome the warsongs of the Harii must have been, for example. They inspired the Einherjar and the Wild Hunt. Our oldest song is the Hildebrandslied, but that's just one of many.

[@mrSnotyify]

+levlobotomy The Germanic tribes of modern Germany also clashed and constantly encountered the Roman Empire. So that might have influenced it.

[@Hexe689]

I love this language, I love your roots :) and it makes me happy to hear. Greetings from Venezuela I will visit you some day :)

[@JosephCagdason]

Didn't know that our boy Jessie Pinkman was such traditionalist. Good for him.

[@PaulHanney]

@radbarij IPA is basically for english speaking countries an d also in the army. If you listen to the skipper (captain IN Faroese) at 3.36 minutes it is pronounced overgashpur.

[@Luredreier]

@AaViRo No there's no percussion instruments. But not all the islands have a dance with such a strong beat as far as I've heard. According to my father who live on the islands the people from the southern islands stamp down rather hard making a strong sound while the ones from the capital traditionally have danced with less sound and more springy steps. I might remember wrong though...

[@Aroutsos1]

EPIC SONG!!

[@xdemmons]

You really did a fantastic job singing on this video! I have watched it more times than you could imagine...I hope to see some more of your videos MrKamban!

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

grimr kamban was the first viking to settle on the islands in year 825

[@arildsolemdal6966]

It's so intriguing that I as a Norwegian can understand these words :D Awesome!

[@AlxzAlec]

Im proud of my kingdom🇩🇰

[@manoweird]

Jeg skjønner ganske mye av dette kvedet. Jeg skulle ønske jeg levde i vikingtiden, før kristendommen forpestet Norge.

[@oddsteinardybvad-raneng8846]

I could listen to this all day, every day. :-). It is absolutely wonderful. Wish I had the words in Norwegian so I could translate it into English. I have found a few verses but not all.

[@EmilReiko]

@EmilReiko Btw. a good key of understanding the old sagas and kvad is to study the Pathsun tribal structure and social organisation. The indo-aryan tribal systems of the Pathsuns in Afganistan and Pakistan is not only the closest relative, but also last living relative to the tribal systems of the old norse. Behind all the muslim rethoric, the system is intact.

[@Rovarin]

There are a few of the old Faroese ballads (the ones that only exist in the Faroes, and others that are.... quite different variations of other ballads) that have been translated to danish (and probably to swedish and norwegian from there). Because there were a few of those .... gatherers (fairy tales, proverbs, riddles, rhymes and ballads) that travelled around the Faroe Islands in those days. Some were Faroese, others probably danes either translated or transcribed. Faroese gatherers also ...

[@gamegodone1]

@paulastichero yeah, sorry about the spaces but i couldn't post it without them.

[@vidaett]

Brødre for alltid!

[@einherjen]

@cilibinarii Its true, that its hard to paint a clear picture of the world view of pre-christianity northern europe, but literature such as snorres hiemskringla and saxo's chronicles of denmark - underbuild by archaeological finds and pre-christian poetry such as hávamál - still draw the outlines of the mindset of vikingage scandinavia. Anyway thats my opinion :)

[@ProudMuslim567]

So BEAUTIFUL language!!! I strted learning it the same day I heard ormurin langi!!! And You have so fancy letters ------> Ð ð !!!

[@LucasEduardoAvenente]

I hear this song preformadas by Tyr!. IS RWAL FOLK!

[@guyfromthe80s92]

19 Swedes/Danes disliked this video

[@Aaron.vandenbosch]

I agree with you, even though I live faaar from nordic countries, my family comes from there, and I can understand it

[@trollfar1]

Værsågod kompis! :)

[@Regin82]

Góða Ólavsøku! :D

[@Rovarin]

This particular ballad was written by a known author during the period of time I previously mentioned. It draws on information from Heimskringla and other sources. The reason for it being written about that particular Norwegian king is his connection to Sigmundur Brestisson (who was at the time the ballad was written regarded as a national hero) who served under Ólav Tryggvason. What you said is untrue because the ballad itself is old, not ancient. However the story is!

[@themightychickens]

@GodNameInVain It's the original Kvæði that Týr covered.

[@xdemmons]

Love it!!!!

[@LarS1963]

Oh, now I see what you are talking about. I was somewhat puzzled because I didn't speak of any specific ballads in my reply to thepatriot1012. Bue I realize now that I did write that Tyr was singing an ancient Scandinavian song in my reply to ranXerox09. Sorry about that. Anyway, the song does exists in Danish and Swedish as well, although obviously translated after 1880, then. ;o)

[@PaulHanney]

@Jagvillhejhej Orvargarpur is faroeses for champion arriower, Pronounced orvargashpur.

[@paronzoda]

Powerful

[@Heimdall01]

aha! ..hmm tror jeg har bodd for lenge utenlands, må flytte hemmat snart :-) Takk, forresten!

[@hagsmunamadurinn]

Ég er íslenskur og skilur maður því... (ætlaði ég að skrifa)

[@beowulfsword08]

That was Class!!

[@sfg948]

You're on point, dear friend.

[@Luredreier]

@kopekmax Ok.. first of all. Faeroese people have hunted whales for ages to survive on those islands. They're not the reason that the whales have been endangered. They're using traditional methods that dates back about a thousand years involving driving the whales towards land and then slaughtering them when they're forced together there. They do have a decent chance at escaping though. Also unlike say Norway, Denmark don't allow commercial whaling.

[@NorlanderGT]

For those wanting the whole text (in faroese) can go to heimskringla.no/wiki/Ormurinn_langi

[@joonte1010]

Hej å hopp! Här var det glatt Humör ^^

[@ThaiEgho]

i've never visited Iceland or the faroes, but i read a lot about those places and their culture, i know Iceland dont have Kveadir and such but still sure there is some pagnism in the sagas but most of it concerns christianity right? so how would the come of christianity have bled out the old ways (as such)? just curious? and the food? whats the differnce there?

[@Luredreier]

@KingsnazurClick Kopemax's message wasn't a levelheaded one, but that don't justify answering in the same way..

[@trollfar1]

Yeah,it is actually.I put this video on for people to enjoy this great kvæði,and if anyone starts some shit,i`ll block his ass right away :) Glymur dansur í høll, dans sláið í ring: Glaðir ríða Noregsmenn til Hildarting. Yeah ;)

[@salvadorbv8275]

Týr! ❤

[@einherjen]

@cilibinarii the viking were mainly asatru up untill around the first millinium, where christianization began. And sure the religion has changed alot in the last thousand yeas - as has chritianity, especially in northern europe. In some aspects to better fit some of the asatru values, that societies such as the f.ex. the danish still build upon. This is values such as freedom of speech and rule through parliament. ------>>>>>>

[@Janyedoe]

Ormen Lange :-) Alf Cranner has a nice version of it.

[@xdemmons]

Tom is in his forties and lives in Oslo. He could understand the meaning based on the text written in the video, however the spoken language was difficult for him to understand. Do they speak this where you come from?

[@EmilReiko]

@einherjen even though it is possible to reconstruct an image of the pagans of old that are fairly accurate on certain points you can't reconstruct the whole and what is more important you can't reproduce in yourself, the peasant and clan based tribal perception of the world that is needed to give meaning to the old religion in a way that would lead to an actual revival and not only a new age interpretation.