[gothic-l] Ostrogothic or Visigothic Music

[hakan36 at SPRAY.SE]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "sunburst" <sunburst at j...> wrote:
> 
> >This is a great site! I need to know though, for the purposes of 
my web
> page,
> >and for personal enjoyment, to what degree is the music on those 
CDs
> >authentic (by scholarly standards) and to what degree does it rely 
on
> >inspiration? Even traditions where we have a lot of evidence often 
require
> >much artistry to reconstruct in a recordable form, and I haven't 
the
> foggiest
> >idea how much evidence we have in the Germanic world beyond what 
you've
> told
> >me so far.
> 
> 
> In my older work, the language and poetic form are authentic.  Some 
of the
> songs are in fact poems from ancient times (such as DEOR) and 
others are
> written by myself and others.  As for the music, little survived 
concerning
> original Germanic music.  On these works I have primarily used 
inspiration,
> but trying to follow some parameters of the oldest known medieval 
tunes.  I
> have since discovered much more, including some authentic melodies, 
but I
> did not have those yet in the time of my first three releases.  The 
main
> features on those are the Germanic lyre, the Anglo-Saxon language 
(Gothic
> language on my next) and Germanic Alliterative Verse.
> 
> Albareiks

Hails Albareiks, JDM and all!
Those titles and CD-covers seems exciting. Do you know if any of 
these songs or any others can be downloaded from the net? I am also 
searching for reconstruction of ancient sounds in general. The 
tradition in Finland with the ancient Kalevala-songs I also find 
interesting. They probably have a relation with samic jojk-tradition. 
The tradition have best survived in Karelia. But you can also find 
ancient teutonic words in finnish so they haven´t been witout 
influences. If it´s possible to order one of your CDs on the net I 
might do so. They look very interesting.

I am also thinking of Adam of Bremen who said that when a monk 
visited a northern marketplace, the inhabitants sounded like dogs 
when singing. Birka or Hedeby? Nobody knows really. But similar songs 
sometimes animal-imitating, with head-rhyme, can be found on Iceland 
and one exemple on a sväin or gräis-visu "pig-song", is known from 
Gotland. On Iceland they are often called rímur"rhymes"and 
kedhjur"chains". In Eigil Skallagrimssons saga is mentioned that the 
men were singing against the shield and no attack could be made  
before the right tone had been found. This rhymes probably have their 
roots in the iron-age. Is it possible to presume that the goths had 
rhymes and warsongs too? 

http://www.cabal.se/silence/cabal_hedningarna/index.html

Greetings from


Håkan Liljeberg



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