Crusader Song (Old Norse) - Jórsalanám
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Here's a song I wrote and sang in Old Norse detailing the events of the Siege of Jerusalem in 1099 from the perspective of a Scandinavian crusader (people from all over Europe responded to the call of Pope Urban II, with varying degrees of success). The Crusaders won the siege and instituted the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
The name, Jórsalanám, literally means "The Taking of Jerusalem".
The epic picture is called "Kingdom of Heaven" by Sergey Sezonov, which he very kindly allowed me to use for this video.
My intention is exclusively to teach history and languages through song. I do not condone, endorse or seek to glorify violence.
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My intention is exclusively to teach history and languages through song. I do not condone, endorse or seek to glorify violence.
SOME of your music? More like ALL.
Hey there, could you possibly send me an email at skaldbardofficial@gmail.com? Sounds like a cool project!
@@kalwallingford7039 Hey, just repeating this as I see I didn't tag you, please shoot me an email :-)
Jesus christ be praised
Now and forever
Amen
Lol no
@@crossbones5428 Is this you by any chance? 🤨👉🤡🤓
@@lopakacooper1668 it's him for sure
This is genuinely beautiful. It is a stark contrast of the music of the present mired in individualistic rantings and materialist narcissism produced by the liberal industry. This music is blessed by God, both in the socio-political sense, and in the spiritual of course.
Based comment, thanks for the support, friend
Nice dichotomy.
I love your username bro.
I love your username. As a Castizo myself, I am glad to see that people use it.
@@guyfawkes7733 right
One of my ancestors was a Norman petty lord, who settled down in southern Italy, who knows maybe he or his sons were with Tancred and Bohemond Hauteville...
Beautiful Song as always
Beautiful song, I stumbled across this it by reading about the Normans and found it by coincidence and boy I don't regret it one bit. I'm a devout Maronite Catholic in Lebanon, near Antioch and Acre, near Jerusalem the heart of Christianity. We lost our ways, we're still standing after decades of strife within the country, one of the last christian strongholds in the Middle East.
Deus Vult! 🙏
Stand Strong, my Brother in Christ. Love and support from America. In His Name, Amen. 🙏 ✝️
You know, I don't really know a whole lot about the non-Roman rites of Catholicism. What are the main differences in how Maronites practice their faith? (Sorry if it's weird or personal, I'm genuinely curious. American Catholic schools don't cover anything about it.)
@@emilyrattini8462Hi, I am an American Maronite. There is no difference in our beliefs and theology. The biggest differences are in tradition and linguistics, where Aramaic is used commonly in mass. Arabic as well, and depending on where your from, the local language (english for me). Married men are also permitted to become priests, given that they were married before they joined the priesthood. I suppose some other differences are in the dress of our clergy, the cardinals of the Eastern Rites are dressed in black and look Orthodox. We have our own patriarch, but we are of course apart of the universal Roman church and recognize the supremacy of the Pope and his decrees. This is all really simplified, but let me know if you have anything specific you want to inquire about
Ur fellow Maronite Jimmy here from Beirut Lebanon greetings brother
Deus Vult ☦️❤🇱🇧🇱🇧😢
I hope Europe can invoke this feeling again
So let's do it it's the best time to take the birthplace of Christ from Jews and Muslims 💪💪💪
@@Arthur-dq5wj first the muslims must be expelled from Europe but liberalism first has to die
@@Arthur-dq5wj If God(or Triune, I guess) wills it, then certainly…
Me to
We haven't had a good crusade in ages.
Love from Ethiopia 🇪🇹❤️❤
Greetings, my brothers In Christ who bended knee to him before my kin did! Christ bless you!
I was raised agnostic, so I never really thought about how badass the Crusades were. It gathered men from all over Europe, united under God. Totally foreign customs and languages, yet they fought together. Can you imagine the camaraderie? A bunch of guys from a thousand miles away show up at your doorstep. You've got a hard time exchanging words at the beginning, and there are a lot of details lost in translation. Yet you continue on with them, and you form a brotherhood with those around you. So, so different, but so alike in cause. Eventually, you lay siege to Jerusalem. And at that point, you have no doubt that the men you are with would die for you, and you for them. That might've been a little fanciful and uninformed, but I do hope I get my point across regardless. I've got a lot of reading to do. Thanks for putting your music out there. I'm really enjoying the immersion it offers and the hours of reading it inspires. Take care, man.
Most people these days are taught to believe the Crusaders just randomly went and committed a holocaust against Muslim people in The Middel East with no provocation and completely out of no where because they just got a sudden blood lust caused by being Christians.
Greeks, Latins, Germans, Armenians, and everyone in between fought in the crusades
@@justinianthegreat1444lol latins were germanics themselves unless you referring to italians? And greeks barely ever fought, they fought in first crusade for some part but major help never came because someone misinformed alexios that bohemond had lost at battle of lake of antioch and alexios believed them
@@bruhmcchaddeus413 There were also the French, (as in romance speakers), among those "Franks", and the Sicilians of Tancred, beside the Genoese.
@@pierdurin oh I was talking about ruling class specifically but yes military came from everywhere, Franks are Germanics tho but french who fought under them were gauls indeed
it's cool how this song tells a whole history in it's 5 minutes
The power of the Skaldic Bard…
СЛАВА ГОСПОДУ ИИСУСУ ХРИСТУ_!!! 👉➕➕➕➕➕➕ 👉👍👍
Amen.
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@@Flavius-TimasiusАмінь
That's beautiful sight- every language and tongue praising Lord Jesus. I hope that world will finally return to Lord✝️☦️
One day every knee will bow
@@tork9646 Amen✝️☦️❤️
Excellent work brother, this brings honor to both our eternal Lord and the crusaders.
Ave Christus Rex
Praise be to our lord and savior, Jesus Christ of Nazareth ✝️ 👑
This is one of my favorite songs. Its meaning and melody are so profound and complete of faith, it gives strength and courage to continue fighting. Thank you very much for producing this song and all and every other ones you produce, Skaldic Bard!
Respect from Brazil
This is awesome, thanks for your comment. Deus o abençoe!
@@SkaldBard Guð blessi þig líka!
Wow. I love the Palastianlied, which speaks of the feelings of the Crusader. This song is a blow by blow account of the war. It's like something Sabaton might write, but in Norse. My ancestors went on Crusades under the Sinclair lairds of Caithness. Sinclairs were of Norse origin. I wonder if they still spoke it?
Perhaps they did, among themselves.
This is simply beautiful. If people from that time would hear that, they would be touched also I think. Thank you whoever wrote and sung this, you took me to heaven for few minutes
Thanks a lot for this, my friend. Means a lot. Glad you enjoyed it
Father I pray that each and everyone in spiritual battle may see victory in Jesus name ! 🔥
Very Interesting. This intersects two of my favorite historical topics.
This is absolutely amazing! Your talent for both composing and singing is awe inspiring! Europe has sadly lost her ways in recent years, but I have full faith that she will recover and stand proudly under the banner of Christ once more. Thank you for the song, I look forward to what you will do in the future! God bless!
Your comment has made my day, thanks for the kind words - and I can assure you, there's more to come! God bless you
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salută legionarii căzuți
No relegion can rival this buetful christan song🎸🕆
One of my favorite people from history is Sigurd Goes To Jerusalem.
Truly a glorious saga
"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12
Amen
Amen, amen.
För första gången såg jag den här författarens kanal om sådana ämnen och en partiskhet i en sådan andlig atmosfär, särskilt i den kristna. Jag önskar författaren lycka till och framgång i denna otroliga otroliga stora sak.
Tack!
Gran canción, Dios te bendiga y te Glorie por Sus caminos
✝🟥🟨🟥
Spain, the vanguard of Iberia.
💪🇪🇸👑✝️😎
@@lopakacooper1668 Totalmente hermano 🇪🇸👑✝️👑🇪🇸
@@yer_german_1019 And Portugal is the little brother of Spain, yes? Warm regards from Hawaii btw! ✝️🇬🇧🇺🇸
@@lopakacooper1668 Portugal es parte de España ya que surgió como un condado asturleonés
This is a new song, but it feels so nostalgic, like something I heard when I was little. It gives me peace, knowing that God is with us and gifted us with so many good things.
This is fucking amazing. May their sacrifices be not in vain
Yours is the only channel I've heard that captures the Skaldic essence. I commend you on your endeavors! *Lifts mead horn* "Skáld!"
This is so different and beautiful. Thank you.
I love this kind of songs and war songs and my friends think that I love wierd music but I will not stop to listen to your songs or any other song thats simillar to this masterpiece. I listen to this song when I want to relax or to calm down from an event or anything like that. i want to say that you are an amaizing singer and the texts of your songs are just brilliant. Continue to make graet songs!
Awesome stuff, my man - nothing wrong with being the odd one out like that, I can relate!
God bless you, and may you continue to create more heavenly music!
Just beautiful ! Love this song. I feel something when I listen to it. Thank you for this song.
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Hey, I found out about your amazing work roughly 6 months ago from this very song (published under another channel) and from there on my interest grew about these old Norse Christian songs
I must give you a tremendous amount of applause for your dedication because since this first song, I've grown a massive hunger to study more on Germanic Languages (German itself being my favorite and I'm still currently studying) as I find them extremely fascinating in their distinctions and similarities but also as they're a living history of how the cultures developed.
Keep doing the wonderful work sir, I' cant wait for the latest hit
That's wonderful to hear, my friend - thanks for taking the time to write such fine words of encouragement and appreciation
Brilliant! I loved this, what a lovely tribute.
To Yahweh and Yeshua! I wish I had this when I was a teen instead of black metal. 😂❤
Black Metal is great it's not just a musical choice and the Medieval music also.
I had 🖤 and I am
Still ;)
But you are here now. St. Paul was once an enemy of Christ, but then bent knee to Him
I love this melody, keep doing this songs❤🔥
ǪLL DÝRÐ SÉ GUĐI!!! ✝️
Meistaraverk 👌🔥🔥🔥
You are so talented!
Love 💖 your work so much
My blood was present at the taking of Jerusalem, it helped save Vienna and was spilled upon the walls of Belgrade when it was first taken from the Ottomans.
Same, mine fought in the 2nd and 3rd Crusades, Reconquista and Le Panto
My ancestors did as well, while my own hand crucified Christ... may He have mercy on me
Brazil in defense of Christianity 🇧🇷✝️
Beautiful work🔥🙌
Bro, keep doing this stuff! Im part danish-frisian mix along with other ethnic backgrounds. I feel connected by this type of stuff when its in old norse. I cheer you on!
Yeah, these kind of songs is enough to make oneself cry manly tears… 🥲
Return to your true ways, Frŷslander.
@@bjarkiengelsson that is my main mission in my life, I belong to the hêitelan
God bless you and your family abundantly
Thanks for this, showed my wife! God bless you
Ave Maria
God bless our Holy Mother
When I'm 18, I promise I show this song to her 🖤
It's four years after the pope's call
We all pledged our will to join
We have taken the cross
We ride now to Jerusalem
Anatolia and Syria are doused in Christian blood
Antioch is now in the hand of Christ
We fare past Acre and Bethlehem
Jerusalem awaits our spears!
The city rises up from the horizon
Crusaders, we march onward!
Surround the walls
Blockade the city gates!
Raymond and the Franks occupy
Mount Zion And Saint Stephen's gate
Godfrey charges the gate of flowers
Tancred marches toward Jerusalem.
Now we do battle against the Saracen!
The fallen fallen lie atop the hot sand
It matters not whether we return
We fight for the triumph of the cross.
Many believed all hope was lost;
The land was barren and provided no food
In heavy armor at the height of summer
The desert brings death.
Iftikar, the governor of Jerusalem, calls
For the Egyptian army and ships
Thousands of men march in the south
Men of faint heart began to flee.
Bishop Adhemar appeared to Peter the priest in a dream
He bade the warrior embark on a pilgrimage
Up the Mount of Olives
Barefoot, we all went.
Cruel exchanges gave way to prayers
The Christians reconciled with one another
We then felt a zealous strength from heaven
Onward, men of Christ, to the field of heaven!
From the sea, to our aid,
A host of English warriors has come
Along with men of Genoa
They bring stone and wood.
Three days of fierce battle ensued
From mount Zion and upon the northern wall
A missile shower fell day and night, and our catapults
Broke down their defenses.
Then Godfrey and the Lothringians sprang
Over the bridge of the gate of flowers
In a stream of swords, they seized the keep
And drove the Saracens from the city.
Godfrey was chosen to be king, but
He wouldn't claim Jesus' crown,
He was thus named defender
of the Holy Sepulcher.
Now to defend the city from the Egyptians
The Vizier Al-Afdal himself is marching
Godfrey now marches to war
With Robert of Flanders
Ten thousand Crusaders
Brandished, early in the morning,
Their swords on the fields of Ascalon
The enemy saw poorly in the dark.
Then, the men of Christ charged them
With bows and swords under the sign of the cross
The Saracens were panic stricken
And driven out of the land.
We have fulfilled our sacred oath
The bells chime once again
Atop the holy sepulcher of our Good Lord
All glory be to God.
(It's so rare that there's a song this good, it sounds good, but it's also so edifying, and has a good bit of history in it too, excellent work!!)
Awesome translation. Also, regarding your last sentence, there is a English version of Palästinalied.
@@lopakacooper1668 just to make it clear i just copied down the subtitles in the video itself lol
@@Amoremoose Oh, still commendable though for your efforts. After all, it’s the thought that counts! ☺️
We have not forgotten the history of Catholic warriors. The infiltrators within the Church also want to put an end to this. Let us pray to God, so that we can reach Heavenly Jerusalem too (this image in the video reminds us a lot of this).
Lovely song man
Hello! Me again. First of all, gotta say I LOOOOVE your work,and I never miss your songs. Sorry I have a ton of questions, but I'm studying Old Norse (your songs are helping a lot, especially with vocabulary, btw) and I'm wondering why you used "kváðumsk allir fylgja vilja". Is the verb mediopassive? Reflexive, like "we said to ourselves", or "to each other"? The -sk ending is still something quite elusive to me, lol.
I'd appreciate a lot if you could help me with this thing that's killing me, lol.
Hey there, thanks! With verbs of speech, you often see this device in Old Norse as well as Modern Icelandic by which the mediopassive form is used in what I would call a "semi-reflexive" way, which essentially shortens the phrase and renders a following subordinate clause unnecessary. So instead of: "Kváðum allir þat, at vér vildum fylgja" (We all said that we wanted to follow), the medio-passive form is used: "Kváðumsk allir vilja fylgja" (We all said "of ourselves" to want to follow). The position of fylgja and vilja are switched in the song as a poetic device which is attested frequently in Old Norse. Hope that helps.
@@SkaldBard that really helped. Thanks a lot! I appreciate you take the time to read the comments and reply to your followers. Total respect. Thanks!
Thanks for this! ❤
i'm a norse pagan, and swede. im proud of the history we have spanning back through the viking age and further still. i'm not sure if this is how old norse actually sounded like but if it is, it sounds beautiful. it's just so very beautifully sung, i love it
Glad to hear you enjoyed it, friend
It’s never too late to convert to the true faith, the Triune… 🙏🏻
Throughout the old testament there are prophecies about the coming of messiah/christ (around 200 i think) and jesus is the one who fullfilled them, jews didnt accept him as the messiah/christ.
pagans sacrificing children:
Thank-you very much for sincere knights-historical-folk-legendary-music,play,sing too!!! Yes security yours dears Father-God!!
Beautiful.
Amazing music! I have actually considered doing this very thing! I've always been interested in Norse and music, and I play the cello and mandola. Where did you start your musical career?
Epic song brother mine. Rev Dev
✝️DEUS VULT✝️
DEUS VULT!
[Deus vult omnes homines salvos fieri]
Devs Vvlt!
Pok pok pok
This is your first song that I heard.
I feel connected to old norse but I speak english nor dont understand a lick of old norse yet it feels like home
Really cool! The only slight nitpick is the v-sound. I know the v-sound in old Norse is a bit of a "mix" between 'v' and 'w', but it's so cool to see someone make a Christian old Norse song! Glory to God and bless you, sir!
Glad you enjoyed! Little curious where you heard that ⟨v⟩ was pronounced [β] and not [w] - the evidence I've seen strongly suggests that the transition to [v] occurred in the later medieval period (1300s onwards)
@@SkaldBard That's really interesting! I haven't heard that before, do correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Jackson Crawford said it's pronounced [β]
@@dingus9537 Ah, fair enough - we know pretty much for certain that it was [w] in the Proto-Norse and early-middle Old Norse period and that it did gradually move to [v] in line with orthographic changes (from "qu" to "kv" for example), so the jury still seems to be somewhat out on this one. Sadly there are no medieval Scandinavians to ask to be 100% sure so I'm going to roll with my [w] ;-)
@@SkaldBard Bard forever, Jackson never
@@SkaldBard This was extremely epic, but where did you learn Old Norse???
Pure Beauty
Viva a Santa Igreja Católica
Bom dia irmãos do mundo, estamos juntos mais uma vez. O Brasil ouviu o chamado🙏
Great song
It took me 38 years on this earth to finally find songs that correctly praised our ancestors.
None of this "the crusades were evil" hatred.
Clasped hands, swords out lads.
Deus Vult.
(Some random norsemen go to the gathering point for the crusade)
(Everyone else nods without any understeanding and they all trave together thousands of kilometers to lay siege to Jerusalem)
I'd love that you'd remaster this song with the same sound quallity as the latin version. In my opinion this is one of your best old norse songs. Also if you could share notes/tabs on the guitar you used. I'm not good enough to hear it by ear. Love to play it.
In hoc signo vinces
Amen
European Reconquista.
All Glory to the Lamb who was slain reviled by the world raised up for our transgressions.
good work and tahnk you...where in old nors in the phrase: "nu hey jum ver bardaga vid serki" there is the word saracen?..thank you
Serki, which is the accusative plural form of Serkr :-)
I have just learned how to play it on guitar, whats the tunning of your lute?
Wonderful song! Do you have the chords/tabs/notes somewhere?
Onward, men of Christ, yo the field of Heaven!
Though I may disagree with, and at sometimes, despise, Christianity, I personally believe that the crusaders were entirely right in the political situation. These crusaders were defending the rights of pilgrims who wanted to go to Jerusalem. They may have been brutal, but they were about as brutal as any nation would be during the medieval era. I remember hearing a story about how a crusader king literally transported ice to Saladin.
Though you may despise Christianity, Christ still loves you and died for you.
I’m so glad RUclips decided to show me this. Your skills in composing, writing, singing, language, everything, are amazing! Please do keep up the good work!
ǪLL DÝRĐ SÉ GUĐI
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It is interesting to think that Christianity was able to unite peoples and languages to fight together, even if for a few moments.
In Christ, all men are brothers
Is beautiful, can I do an answer? Can you do an latin version of this song? I would really like 🥺
The Norwegian Crusade be like:
Jórsalanám live please
LarPagans and Puslims are still coping at the comments 😂😂😂
I really like this song but one thing that bugs me is the lyrics sound more like a history lesson on the First Crusade rather than an authentic crusader describing the battle or his thoughts going into battle. The narrator is practically omniscient, knowing the dreams of a bishop and the names of Frankish leader while being able to distinguish them from the Genoese, Lotharingians, and the English. I don't know Old Norse, but the English lyrics often switch back and forth between the past and present tense, sweeping broadly between several days and weeks of events. The song sounds great, but as I read the translation to the lyrics, my satisfaction dwindles. I'm glad others can enjoy it even more than me.
If you read historic Norse texts, that's how they are. "Saga" means both "tale" and "history" for that reason as historically, there isn't a distinction between telling a story and detailing the history of something. As the oral tradition developed before writing, this is how knowledge was transmitted -- and much of it wasn't particularly "poetic". If you read some of the sagas, you'll see just what I mean about their storytelling.
Also, one of the unique features of Old Norse is the frequency with which writers skipped between tenses, even in the same sentence. It was a literary device that they appeared to use almost randomly. So, this song is a product of that, and not trying to be anything that it isn't. Its fundamental objective is to tell the (not very known) story of the Siege of Jerusalem in a few short minutes
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Gott þiki mér kvæðit
Sincere light long-memory in sincere deeper silence!!! For dears in sincere christiansk knights!!! Vivat dear father god for live!! For dear history!!! For dear european-nord-deutsch father-muthers sester for brothers for childrens for babes!! For dear grand-father-muthers too!! Light King dome heavens!!!! Vivat vivat dear Pr.Saint Maria,Everybody Pr.Saints on spiritual-on lighing-blue-heavens on long long and on long in very very big spiritual-security times!!!! Amin.
vakker norsk sang.
Would this not have been the Old Icelandic of the 11th-12th centuries?
Isn't this about A Norse warrior that joins the crusades
Indeed it is. In fact, the very first KING (not prince or baron) who went on the crusades was Norwegian king Sigurd The Crusader around 1100
@@lysetsfyrste I look forward to drinking a beer with him and Christ when I am called to Heaven
Jorsalanam in live
3:38
Hmm, needs more alliteration. 9/10
DEUS VULT
Christianity worldwide king Jesus.
all Christian must become one should.
1.Orthodox Christianity
2.Catholic Christianity
3.Protestant Christianity. Jerusalem temple Christianity control but now judaism control now Islam control please 🙏✝️🤲🇷🇺🇺🇸wake up share
Prots aren't Christians but heretics.
Orthos have valid sacraments but they still are also heretics and schismatics.
Only Catholics are Christians.
@@LuisRincon-wr4dm They worship Christ. They're Christians.
@@bjarkiengelsson No, they aren't. Our Lord Jesus Christ founded One Church, the Catholic Church, and neither prots nor orthos are part of it.
@@LuisRincon-wr4dm "Yet their ˹various˺ groups have differed among themselves ˹about him˺, so woe to the disbelievers when they face a tremendous Day!" Chapter of Maryam Verse 37
It’s an interesting fact that pure Northmen have better night vision than most other races and European sub races, giving them a critical advantage in night battles.
SURREXIT CHRISTUS
I'm not a huge fan of the Crusaders knowing what they did but, I still love this. Amazing. Thank you.
Thanks for your comment. The medieval worldview was fundamentally different to ours, with death and either salvation or damnation lurking around the corner almost constantly, so I think it is important to bear that in mind when we think back to these times and the events that transpired. Atrocities, as sad as it is, were and have been committed by armies throughout history; but the evidence suggests that the average crusader genuinely did want to rally behind their cause and possibly pay the ultimate sacrifice for what they thought was right. The news of the victory was met with elation throughout Europe, so it's that spirit I am aiming to capture. I'm glad you enjoyed the song!
@@SkaldBard Right, I agree. I should've stated that not all Crusaders were monsters.
While allies carpet bombing, and atomic bombing in WW2 has died hundreds of thousands Japanese and Germans, and almost anybody consider this for a crime, so you still think that we are better than crusaders?
They did right, and better than what the arabs did when stealing those rightful Christian lands with their muslim conquest.
And we will do it again.
@@makutas-v261 Christians trying not to be horrendously racist challegne: Impossible edition
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Nothing like religiously sanctioned bridandry inspired music
Hail Valkama!
Pagans and Odinists must unite for once with Christians and defend Europe against islamism