Garmarna - Bläck

It's a beautiful starry night and you stand on a large rock looking over the fjord, frost covers your cheeks but your heart feels warm. You hear the verses of the Havamal in the wind. They echo, they pass by and come back to caress your ears and make sure the words will be remembered. The Allfather speaks.

Verse 24, 25 and 28 from the Havamal.

Ósnotur maður
hyggur sér alla vera
viðhlæjendur vini.
Hittki hann finnur,
þótt þeir um hann fár lesi,
ef hann með snotrum situr.

Ósnotur maður
hyggur sér alla vera
viðhlæjendur vini;
þá það finnur,
er að þingi kemur,
að hann á formælendur fáa.

Fróður sá þykist,
er fregna kann
og segja ið sama.
Eyvitu leyna
megu ýta synir,
því er gengur um guma.

Ósnotur maður

This is a demo version of R.S.D. a song taken from the forth coming RunaFolk album.

RunaFolk RSD   21-09-2009

Heilung - Krigsgaldr (without English Part)

Runaljod - Ragnarok

Urur

Nytt Land - Völuspá (Ask Veit Ek Standa)

Kaunan, "Forn" - Out Oct. 13th on By Norse Music
 
KAUNAN is Oliver S. Tyr (Ger.), Boris Koller (Au.) and Göran Hallmarken (Swe). Oliver S. Tyr is the frontman of the well-known German folk band FAUN. Boris Koller is a professional painter and composer who specializes in working with the old types of Nyckelharpa (the Kontrabasharpa, and Gammelharpa). He has contributed to numerous studio productions and concerts performed by various early music ensembles. Göran Hallmarken is one of the most outstanding hurdy-gurdy players on the Swedish folk and medieval music scene. 

KAUNAN have played concerts in Germany, Sweden, France and the Netherlands. Audiences have been fascinated not only by their virtuous performances, but also by the drive and archaic power that lies behind their fresh interpretations of the old songs. KAUNAN do not simply play a Polska; they celebrate it, with almost religious passion.

Vallåt

Herja

Ulfhednar

Skadi (which translates to "loss" or "death") was an important part of viking culture. Enemies, friends and family had to face death at a certain point in their life, some too early and some too late, so the rumors. Take part in a festive ceremony to honor the death of one of your clansmen and prepare for an unforgettable feast.

Lyrdraces

Skadi

Danheim - Vindöld

Thracian Gaia

I grew up with music from a very young age, inspired by the variety of genres I got introduced to over the years. As little as I was, I played and ploinked away on my father’s organ and later keyboard. As I was raised Roman Catholic it was pretty clear I’d join choir and did so from the age of 7 until I was about 16.

I’ve always been singing, for as long as I can remember, from playbacking on annual schoolfairs, to writing sad songs as a teenager haunted by anxiety that would never entirely give itself. I got interested in lifestyles, traditions and paths of faith that made me leave the church as I found it did not align with how I felt or what I believed in.

Inspired by my many heroes, I too wanted to go on stage and just sing and take people on journeys. Journeys have always been an incredible important part of what I do, especially coming from a place that didn’t allow for many travels abroad. Becoming a singer, aside from becoming a mermaid when I was younger, has always been my number 1 dream.

Nature has been of tremendous importance to my work, the same goes with mythology, the occult and working with the web that connects everything. My music is that which I wish to tell the world. All the stories and all the dreams.


I started playing the harp in 2015. Before that I took up the Irish low and tin whistles, bodhrán and hurdy-gurdy. I’m considered autodidact, but have been taken fiolin lessons since the start of 2022 to get a broader understanding of technique and reading sheet music. My specialty though, lies in singing and improvisation. The latter being something I used to be very insecure about, but which I’ve come to realize is a really good strength.

I moved to Norway in 2017 after years of wishing and dreaming and pondering. I’ve had the honor to play and sing in many wonderful places and continue to do so until this day.

Ósnotur maður

Helisir

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