The Welsh Viking | Viking Music: Some Theory and Archaeology @TheWelshViking | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
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Look, we all love Heilung and we all dig Wardruna, ok? Let's get that straight right out of the gate.
But although at least Wardruna uses real medieval instruments and is as close as we can probably get to it, they aren't making fully accurate Viking Age music because we don't fully understand the nature of Viking Age music, because they didn't write enough down and there aren't enough remains to allow us that.
Sorry. Not a rant. Just... can we not pretend we know more than we do? I know it's in our nature to strive for knowledge and all that, but we have fragments of musical instruments, virtually no writing from the Viking Age about how vikings and Old Norse people used music, and illuminated manuscripts from the Byzantine Empire, Franks, Anglo-Saxons, Britons, Irish, and others can only tell us so much. If they'd left us some MP3s of their music we'd know more, but they didn't.
I know, how dare they?
What we *do* have are some fun bits of musical instruments, things we think may have been musical instruments, and a bunch of pictures to look at!
And no, there's no evidence for throat singing. Stoppit.
Some reading:
followthevikings.com/discover/culture/music
earlymusicmuse.com/medieval-harp-development
thinkingonmusic.wordpress.com/tag/isidore-of-seville
Find me elsewhere:
Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com
Patreon: patreon.com/jimmyjohnson
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/thewelshviking
My actual website: welshviking.com
Insta: @littlewelshviking
Letters, parcels, packages?
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PO Box 821,
YORK,
YO1 0PY,
UK
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Camera: Panasonic Lumix G7
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Look, we all love Heilung and we all dig Wardruna, ok? Let's get that straight right out of the gate.
But although at least Wardruna uses real medieval instruments and is as close as we can probably get to it, they aren't making fully accurate Viking Age music because we don't fully understand the nature of Viking Age music, because they didn't write enough down and there aren't enough remains to allow us that.
Sorry. Not a rant. Just... can we not pretend we know more than we do? I know it's in our nature to strive for knowledge and all that, but we have fragments of musical instruments, virtually no writing from the Viking Age about how vikings and Old Norse people used music, and illuminated manuscripts from the Byzantine Empire, Franks, Anglo-Saxons, Britons, Irish, and others can only tell us so much. If they'd left us some MP3s of their music we'd know more, but they didn't.
I know, how dare they?
What we *do* have are some fun bits of musical instruments, things we think may have been musical instruments, and a bunch of pictures to look at!
And no, there's no evidence for throat singing. Stoppit.
Some reading:
followthevikings.com/discover/culture/music
earlymusicmuse.com/medieval-harp-development
thinkingonmusic.wordpress.com/tag/isidore-of-seville
Find me elsewhere:
Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com
Patreon: patreon.com/jimmyjohnson
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/thewelshviking
My actual website: welshviking.com
Insta: @littlewelshviking
Letters, parcels, packages?
The Welsh Viking,
PO Box 821,
YORK,
YO1 0PY,
UK
Editing software: DaVinci Resolve
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G7
