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late night bardic
May. 16th, 2021 09:31 pmHopefully I will make time to write up the rest of this weekend's event properly later, but in the meantime, here is a tiny highlight...
We were 8 people (the current limit for gatherings in Sweden) at Kheldor's Medieval Space during this year's hybrid Plague Wars event. Last night, after Drachenwals's online court last night (which was amazing) I was invited to the online bardic hosted by the Shire of Baggeholm, so, of course I went. The others in our camp were still doing War-point archery shoots (since it doesn't get very dark here in the evenings this close to summer, they could) just outside the rundlogen (old timber barn we used for our Medieval space ; see Thursday's post for a brief video tour).
I hung out in the virtual bardic till my campmates put down their bows and arrows and gathered around the table, then I joined them, and we sang long into the night. At one point one of them looked up the section in Egil's Saga where Egil speaks a poem about how his mother told him that one day he'd buy a ship and go viking. This poem is the inspiration of a short song that has been making the rounds on youtube lately (by a variety of different artists) called "My Mother Told Me". Because that song is popular, one of us decided to look up the original and we started singing itm to the same tune (though, come to think of it, I understood what we were singing, so perhaps what we were reading is a Swedish translation of the old Norse??)
After singing it through lots of times (since none of us had ever sung these words before), we started playing with turning it into a round, or singing different parts, and eventually they decided to do a quick video recording of "Min moder sa" so we could hear how it came out. I am sitting just off the camera to the left, and one of the others is holding the camera, but you can see the rest of us, sort of.
We were 8 people (the current limit for gatherings in Sweden) at Kheldor's Medieval Space during this year's hybrid Plague Wars event. Last night, after Drachenwals's online court last night (which was amazing) I was invited to the online bardic hosted by the Shire of Baggeholm, so, of course I went. The others in our camp were still doing War-point archery shoots (since it doesn't get very dark here in the evenings this close to summer, they could) just outside the rundlogen (old timber barn we used for our Medieval space ; see Thursday's post for a brief video tour).
I hung out in the virtual bardic till my campmates put down their bows and arrows and gathered around the table, then I joined them, and we sang long into the night. At one point one of them looked up the section in Egil's Saga where Egil speaks a poem about how his mother told him that one day he'd buy a ship and go viking. This poem is the inspiration of a short song that has been making the rounds on youtube lately (by a variety of different artists) called "My Mother Told Me". Because that song is popular, one of us decided to look up the original and we started singing itm to the same tune (though, come to think of it, I understood what we were singing, so perhaps what we were reading is a Swedish translation of the old Norse??)
After singing it through lots of times (since none of us had ever sung these words before), we started playing with turning it into a round, or singing different parts, and eventually they decided to do a quick video recording of "Min moder sa" so we could hear how it came out. I am sitting just off the camera to the left, and one of the others is holding the camera, but you can see the rest of us, sort of.