Re: Faroese folk music

The band Týr (they are actually a metal band, btw) performs what I
think is the entire Regin Smiður poem as a bonus at the end of their
track How Far To Asgård from the album of the same name. The song
itself is 8:59, but silence continues long after that and the poem
begins at about 18:40 and runs until the end of the track (29:27). So,
it is a quite long traditional performance! Perhaps this can be heard
in the sample on amazon.com.

Incidentally, Týr also has made a video for Regin Smiður (their own version).
http://www.tyr.net/videors.asp?Cmd=9

Thanks for the original links, btw!
-Markus

2006/5/7, kiyo9tails <kyamazak@...>:

> Thanks for this lead, and precious recorded soundfiles for the Faroese
> language.
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> As for Sigmunds kvæði (one of the ballads recorded in the mp3 file
> clip there) the text can readily be found on several sites by
> performing a cursory Google search, while F. York Powell has translated
> the "Ballad of Sigmund" in his introduction to the translation of
> Faereyinga saga (http://www.northvegr.org/lore/faereyinga/00003.php).
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> On a somewhat different note, I recently visited the http://tjatsi.fo/
> (Faroese stamp) site and discovered the islands have issued a set of 10
> stamps based on the ballad of Ormurin Langi, the longship built by Olaf
> Tryggvasson. I have taken a crack at translating a few strophes (the
> verses sung by the rock group Tyr).
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> kiyo
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> > This is a great web site. I've just found their section of Faroese
> > recordings [ http://www.heimskringla.no/faeroysk/mp3/index.php ].
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