SKÁLD | Fimbulvetr (Lyrics & Translation)

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The lyrics are composed of lines from “Gylfaginning” (stanzas 51 and 18), “Vafþrúðnismál” (only the line “hann er a hverian veg”) and “Völuspá” (stanza 59). The song starts by describing Fimbulwinter, the three-years long winter which will announce the forthcoming of Ragnarök, then it talks about Hræsvelgr, the giant who creates the wind, and finally it finishes with a description of the post-Ragnarök world, in its new golden age.
In Norse mythology, Fimbulwinter is an event yet to come, but as the lyrics were changed to “I remember Fimbulwinter” and “the sun darkening” instead of the original “the sun will darken”, it is possible that the intent was to portray Fimbulwinter and Ragnarök itself as past events, while describing the newly reborn world. Even so, the line “at vetr sá kemr” (“such is the winter to come”) still describes an event to come.
I know a transcription in runes of such a text doesn’t really have any reason to be, if not as a treat, but yeah…that’s just what it is, bear with me.
Any suggestion and/or observation is warmly welcome.
The lyrics are pronounced as modern Icelandic, instead of using Old Norse pronunciation: e.g. they sing “ll” with its Icelandic pronunciation /tl/, instead of a simple /ll/, or “é” as the Icelandic diphthong /je/ instead of the Old Norse /:e/.
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[@jaxhayes4372]

Their music inspires me to write a story like Outlander; a modern person gets magicked to the ancient past and becomes entrenched in the lives around them.

[@therealsharpblade4850]

I love that u said " magicked"

[@carissamace]

@@therealsharpblade4850 Tis a real word.

[@therealsharpblade4850]

@@carissamace now it is

[@Tyrosgyros]

So basically an Isekai Anime

[@Kazue2980]

Thanks for the translation. But who are we talking about when we mention wings?

[@FlamSparks]

There they suddenly switched from paragraph 51 of Gylfaginning to paragraph 18, so the subject is no longer Fimbulwinter, but Hræsvelgr, the giant in eagle shape who creates the winds with his wings.

[@Kazue2980]

@@FlamSparks Ohh i see, thanks for your answer !

[@arielbenitez98]

@@Kazue2980 i may also add sometimes “He” can mean “it” as some words are gendered so the word is used to describe the topic of the sentence or the noun. For example “Hann er” although means “He is” could also mean It is in english, same with “hún er”: she is

[@cecilyerker]

I wonder if we’re going through Ragnarok right now

[@seanwoodard7958]

Fimbulwinter is the starting point of Ragnarök and we haven’t seen anything resembling a Long Night

[@dabada110]

@@seanwoodard7958 there was a three year winter in around 560ad from a volcano in america the ash clouds covered most of scandinavia so thats probably where the myth ragnarok came from.

[@gladiusdei]

@@dabada110 That’s why they thought Fenrir ate the sun....

[@Faedran]

Soon...

[@mikealkire7112]

@@Faedran soon brothir

[@ElsannaPL]

I don't know Norse mythology, but it reminds me of how the Five Spirits could attack humanity... Also, a bit funny you uploaded this mid-2020 XD

[@FlamSparks]

Why so?

[@ElsannaPL]

@@FlamSparks Well, I've no idea why the spirits would attack people, I just said it can look like this...
Well, 2020 isn't exactly a nice year for humanity... So what a coincidence you uploaded a song about the end of the world XD

[@FlamSparks]

Well, the band released the song only a month ago…might not be a coincidence

[@ElsannaPL]

@@FlamSparks Oh, then it's likely it isn't, probably it's inspired by what's going on these days XD

[@shirafaizaputri6887]

@@ElsannaPL Can you elaborate more on the five spirits? It sounds very intriguing.

[@Dood_Spooce]

Dang you uploaded this fast lol

[@Escanout]

I wonder how the lyrics are connected to the video imagery. Significance of the mock ship burials? Shipwreck?

[@FlamSparks]

Given the fact that the first line is "I *remember* Fimbulwinter" (such a line doesn't exist in any Old Norse script), that they changed a line from future to present, and that the last lines talk about the post-Ragnarök world, I think that they were trying to depict the world after the apocalypse, describing the events of Ragnarök (including Fimbulwinter) as past, with the remains of the final battle still lying on the ground.

[@Escanout]

FlamSparks I think that’s an excellent analysis of the video. I think that you make a good pinky, and the context is thought provoking. Very excited to see what they come up with next, and I cannot stress enough how appreciated your translations are.

[@crissscxso4899]

So beautiful song🖤🖤🖤

[@jennyf.5625]

Thanks for the video ! I do have a question though...I'm new to runes and Old Norse and I was wondering why (in the title) you used algiz for the final "r" sound and not raidho ? :)

[@FlamSparks]

As you know, in younger fuþark, Rs at the end of words must be written with a ᛦ, not with a ᚱ. This is because the R at the end of words is not exactly an R (it's a similar sound, though) and was previously (at a very early stage of Old Norse) pronounced as a Z, not an R. In time, that Z became a R (a phenomenon called "rhotacism"). While younger fuþark had two different symbols to indicate the two different kinds of Rs, elder fuþark never switched from Z to R, so when transcribing an Old Norse word which ends by R in elder fuþark, the closest rune we have is ᛉ, which represents the sound that R had before being rhotacised

[@jennyf.5625]

@@FlamSparks Ooooh I see...well I've still a lot to learn about Old Norse and runes ^^Thank you for your answer :D

[@FlamSparks]

​@@jennyf.5625 NP ;) This is actually a very complicated detail, which requires knowledge of Old Norse and Germanic philology, besides the runes, which is not so easy to acquire, so it was no big deal

[@wintersking4290]

The rune for V is the Uruz not the Win, the Win rune is a W. Basically, U and V are the same like in latin.

[@FlamSparks]

Which letter would you associate to the Wyn then? 'Cause Old Norse (and Proto-Nordic too) didn't use the letter W.

[@wintersking4290]

@@FlamSparks Saxon and old germanic did and it's a hold over from those.

[@FlamSparks]

@@wintersking4290 but here we're not talking about Saxon or Proto-Germanic, but about Old Norse and Proto-Norse, and the fact that they didn't use any W remains

[@wintersking4290]

@@FlamSparks the direct predecessor to old Norse and Proto-nordic was old North Germanic which did use W's. The lack of W as a letter was a thing that happened somewhere between 850 Ad and 990 ad. It along with several other letters were abandoned when the Norse went from using a 29 letter original germanic alphabet to the 18 letter younger futhark. As far as I knew the rune shouldn't occur at all in anything from the viking period.

[@FlamSparks]

In fact, if you didn't stop at the title, you would have realised that the lyrics are fully transcribed in Younger Futhark, while only the title and the band's name are in Elder Futhark, because the group always signs itself with this script instead of using a more appropriate YF.
As far as we know, labio-dental fricative /v/ didn't exist in Proto-Norse, while what _did_ exist was labio-velar approximant /w/, not to be confused with close back rounded vowel /u/, which also existed. Evolving from Proto-Norse to Old Norse, approximant /w/ shifted gradually to consonant /v/, e.g. *wintruz > vintr; *hwaz > hvat; *watōr > vatn. For a long time, Old Norse letter [v] actually indicated sound /w/, until the sound itself evolved from /w/ to /v/.

[@aliguneyilmaz]

0:20 arası 1:10 ve 1:36 arası 2:06 & 2:35 - 2:49 yükseliş noktaları. video orijinalinden daha yaratıcı olmuş bence aslı da böyle olmalıydı.

[@aegisengels4919]

Brother, a question: Was Surtr a Jötnar? I was talking to my friend that he was not because he already existed before Ymir's birth, but he keeps saying that, and as there are not many sources in Portuguese (that I know of), I thought that would be better ask to someone wiser.

[@FlamSparks]

*sister and *jǫtunn (singular form, "jǫtnar" is plural)
Yes, Surtr is a giant and has existed ever since Múspellsheimr has. Múspellsheimr and Niflheimr existed before Ymir, because he was born of the ice and fire which came from them, so I guess we can assume that Surtr existed since before Ymir, but don't look too much for coherence in mythology: these are generally inconsistent and fragmented texts...

[@aegisengels4919]

@@FlamSparks Oh, sorry :'), and thanks for taking my question.

[@aegisengels4919]

@@FlamSparks And as for spelling, my keyboard doesn't have that "o", it's very complicated to know the right way to write and pronounce because I don't have many sources and the native language gets a little worse.

[@aegisengels4919]

@@FlamSparks But thanks for the correction, big sister: 3

[@dyikxtrehkjfs8080]

Lyric pronontiations Français :
Ek man eftir fimbulveterr
Fa drifnerr
or otloum attum
Frost
Vindarr vassirr
ok mitlili

[@aegisengels4919]

This is recent futhark or futhorc?

[@FlamSparks]

Younger fuþark. Fuþork was not used in Scandinavia

[@aegisengels4919]

@@FlamSparks Thanks

[@aegisengels4919]

@@FlamSparks Do you know where i can study the younger futhark?

[@FlamSparks]

@@aegisengels4919 can't help you on that, because all the books I studied on are in Swedish, sorry 😕

[@bigbruhenergygobrr]

You can try this website: lexicity.com/language/oldnorse/
I have not tried it, but it was recommended to me. Hope it helps. :)

[@ClemCuttie]

I'm here,,, because god of war got me into norse mythology lol.

[@jessicaleilanousiainen3994]

Dis youknow those guys are french ?

[@zlatkovlahovic]

🖤🖤💯

[@aliguneyilmaz]

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