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41 No. 41 ID: b973a8 Stickied hide watch expand quickreply   [Reply] [Gallery] [Last 50 posts]
Welcome to the Halls of Valhalla, home of the Einherjar.
All topics of Norse Mythology, Black Metal, and Raiding in the name of the 99chan Viking Commandos is welcome
Do not taint my hall with the likes of /b/, or I shall slay you outright
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>> No. 3124 ID: 2d6cce
Winland >>>>>>>>>>> spineless eurosocialist scandis


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3184 No. 3184 ID: dfb899 hide watch quickreply   [Reply] [Gallery]
What in the fucking name of Odin is this?
>> No. 3187 ID: 77ab50
A guy from Metalocalypse. I forget his name.
>> No. 3188 ID: 98da15
>>3187
Skwisgaar Skwigelf


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I am a norwegian, does that make me your king?
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>> No. 3171 ID: 9b7ac8
norwegian diaspora reporting
>> No. 3182 ID: c13c09
>>1081
If you're from Orkney or Shetland, yes. if you're from Largs... better not brag about it.

>>674
Yorkshirefag here, I'm descended from the Danes on my mother's side.
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3186
Swedes are my kings. Norway was Sweden until they let the norfags go.


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Greetings /norse/. I come with two inquiries:

1. What is the image?
It's a picture I took of a shirt I found at a second hand store, a while ago. I tried converting over the runes, and I got nothing, so maybe you all know more than myself. Maybe it's just nonsense and the shirt should be burned.

2. What's the story on Turisas?
Just recently, a friend posted lyrics to a song. I read them... I found them intriguing, and I knew there was something about it. And lo! Turns out it's this Finnish band called Turisas. I recognised the couple Finnish words used. My grandfather was Finnish, and I've always been interested in the language (I really like the language) but I don't know much in the way of history, so I didn't know they had shit to do with norse stuff (do they?). I DL'd "The Varangian Way" and I was surprised how much it didn't make me want to vomit. I'd come to /norse/ before, saw music/mythology threads, and was intimidated because I didn't know where to start learning. Turns out the Prose Edda I already owned should suffice, but that's deep in storage - any online/DL-able ones which you personally use and can recommend?
I didn't try out your music because, basically, it looked too savage and too dumbly theatrical. But this Turisas stuff isn't "rawr rawr rawr blood death death". It seems like it's got intelligent lyrics, and actual story. I now overstand thee use of theatrics - indeed some music I enjoy uses costumes to add to their expression.
I just wanted to come to you guys, since you're probably pretty good judges of norse-related music, and I've never listened to such before. If you can recommend other norse-related bands that aren't "rawr rawr death death gutteral growls" I'd appreciate it.

Also, if you all know anything about the Kalevala, let me know, and if I should jump right in, or how the hell I should read it. I own one, but that sucker is GIGANTIC, and honestly it's very intimidating to even start.
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>My grandfather was Finnish, and I've always been interested in the language (I really like the language) but I don't know much in the way of history, so I didn't know they had shit to do with norse stuff (do they?).

Finnish mythology hasn't really anything to do with norse mythology and vikings, so Turisas (which is the name of the god of war) may distort the image a bit for foreigner listeners when mixing the elements of different Scandinavic and Finnish folk mythologies.

Well, of course Finnish culture and mythology with it has taken influences from surrounding Nordic beliefs, but the impact is mostly just nominal.

And about Kalevala: I recommend you to try to find it written in non-poetic form. You get the story clear without having to get irritated with badly translated language. Poetic Kalevala opens only if you understand Finnish really well.
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You should check out Thyrfing, Einherjer, Sigtyr, Mistur (Fucking excellent might i add), and Moonsorrow (also superb, and great musical composition skills).
>> No. 3185 ID: 2d1326
Well yeah, Vikings did sometimes use Finnish guides to translate when they traded with Russian villages. Fur trade also connected finns to vikings, but usually after trading they started to pillage and raid villages. After few decades of raiding Finnish villages started building hillforts that were quite impossible to capture. (fort on top of steep hill. defended with spears, arrows and boiling water. At winter the hill would be iced so you could only aprroach it from one direction.)

One raiding party was almost totally wiped out by mixture of drunken vikings, big rapids and a sturdy rope pinned across the rapids by finnish hunters.


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3167 No. 3167 ID: ace878 hide watch quickreply   [Reply] [Gallery]
Heil /norse/,

can you recommend me some medieval (inspired) music, most likely metal, but also traditional folk music goes well too. I especially like drone notes and chords, as usual for medieval music, they make it blaze around somekind of primitive force and power.

And do not plz tell me to listen Satyricon or other famous Norwegian bands, I know black metal a little deeper than that.

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>> No. 3168 ID: d9dc0c
Hollenthon is the only band I know that plays midieval style metal.

I mostly listen to pre-christain, pagan stuff.
>> No. 3169 ID: 39f519
Blackmore's Night - hey-nonny-no medieval folk-rock from Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night.

Gaita - Actual medieval tunes played on actual medieval instruments.

Schelmish - What happens when German industrial musicians get hold of bagpipes.

Turisas - The definitive Finnish Folk-metal band

Ensiferum, Moonsorrow, Glittertind, TYR - Varying degrees of Scandinavian folk metal in the same vein as Turisas.

Blind Guardian - Tolkien inspired epic metal.

Clann an Drumma - Scottish bagpipes and drums. Not as good as Schelmish, but still great fun in the beer tent at Callander highland games.

Saor patrol - See Clann an Drumma.
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>> No. 3183 ID: 1fe8f4
Wardruna


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  prepare your berserk
>> No. 3181 ID: 879f76
avatar had dragons


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3179 No. 3179 ID: b75622 hide watch quickreply   [Reply] [Gallery]
I found this old schoolbook in Old Norse in an antique shop yesterday. I'll post some more short reading pieces, if there is any interest for learning the language.

1. Basic rules
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3180
2. The Gods


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I don't think you guys get it yet...
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>> No. 3130 ID: 68f88e
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3130
I don't think any of you get it
>> No. 3153 ID: 713364
I get it.
/norse/ - Valhalla == /gay/ - Homo's
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3175
I got it! I got it! Aww shit...I lost it.


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  I found this cool mod for HL2 a while back, called Pirates Vikings & Knights II. I've played it for a week or so, and its really friggin good.

One of their designers/concept artists is a Norwegian history buff, so the classes are based somewhat on history/ famous mythology.

The youtube video is of one of the new viking class, Gestir, released a little while ago.


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Any one know of any other viking metal bands besides Manowar? Don't get me wrong Manowar is the shit, but I'm wondering if there are anyone else like them.
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>> No. 3163 ID: 3fed1a
  Tyr
>> No. 3170 ID: 39f519
>>2976
Geordie Folk-rock. Not in the least bit Viking.

Finntroll, on the other hand....
>> No. 3173 ID: cf6f16
>>2823

Manowar isn't viking metal, they're heavy metal with maybe some power elements. They just have some viking lyrics occasionally


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