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"Thus spake my mother That for me they would buy A barque and fair oars To go away with vikings. Stand up in the stern, Steer an expensive vessel, Hold course for a haven, Hew down a man and another." Translation used in Vikings (2013 TV series) "My Mother told me Some day I will buy A galley with good oars And sail to distant shores. Stand up ...
Egill Skallagrímsson in a 17th-century manuscript of Egill's Saga. Egill's Saga or Egil's saga (Old Norse: Egils saga [ˈeɣels ˈsɑɣɑ]; Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈeijɪls ˈsaːɣa] ⓘ) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the lives of the clan of Egill Skallagrímsson (Anglicised as Egill Skallagrimsson), [1] an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald.
Songs My Mother Taught Me" is a song for voice and piano, written by Charles Ives (S. 361, K. 6B21c) in 1895 and set to a poem by Adolf Heyduk. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ives' song was written some fifteen years after Dvořák 's setting of the same poem, with which it shares some similarities.
Runaljod – Yggdrasil (The Sound of Runes - Yggdrasil) is the second album by Norwegian Nordic folk musical project Wardruna, released 15 March 2013 by Indie Recordings/Fimbulljóð Productions.
In 2021 Franzén sang the song Þat Mælti Mín Móðir (My Mother Told Me), that was performed by the Swedish band Hindarfjäll. The song first appeared in the TV-series Vikings where it was sung by Harald Finehair (portrayed by Peter Franzén). Here Franzén reprises his performance, singing the song in the Old Norse language.
"Don't go out in cold weather with wet hair or you'll catch a cold!" It's a sentiment a lot of people have heard throughout their lifetimes from well-meaning parents or grandparents. Many have ...
The scholars Iona and Peter Opie noted that many variants have been recorded, some with additional words, such as "O. U. T. spells out, And out goes she, In the middle of the deep blue sea" [3] or "My mother [told me/says to] pick the very best one, and that is Y-O-U/you are [not] it"; [3] while another source cites "Out goes Y-O-U." [4] "Tigger" is also used instead of "tiger" in some ...
According to The Guardian, scientists have traced this top cold-weather myth to a United States Army manual from the 1970s recommending a hat in the cold because "40 to 45 percent of body heat" is ...