Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music

Subject: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: skarpi
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 08:55 AM

At this time of every year we here in Iceland held a event witch almost last for one month , and it´s called Þorri .

At this feast and music Festival we eat food made like was done in the past , and the smell is not always as it´s best like the shark and sour whale meat , along with dry fish , lamp meat and of course
the Black Death ( BRENNIVÍN ) witch some of you who visit the Portaferry Gathering know about , we always put the brennivín in the freezer for over night , that bring ´s the better taste out

and the music is Icelandic folk song , from now and from the past , Fimmundar songs like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmdPUobgmaE and many more , here is list ,,
Krummi krunkar úti
Krummi svaf í klettagjá
þorraþræll

and many more , at some places they only sing Rímur and Stemmur witch are the oldest Icelandic folk music that we know of that we can still use , there have been found some older music form´s I have here at home but I have no knowledge of any cd of that music so far .


so Gleðilegan Þorramánuð ,

all the best Skarpi ICeland .

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: David Carter (UK)
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 09:16 AM

Thank you Skarpi. Listening to your Youtube link, and following the recommends to other Icelandic folk music, there is some really, really good stuff out there. Both instrumental and choral. Is this music very old? To my ear it sounds medieval.

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 09:45 AM

Skarpi's link to Icelandic Folk Music

it's wonderful, thanks for posting the link, Skarpi, I'm sharing it with friends

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: leeneia
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 09:46 AM

Thanks for the information and the link, Skarpi. I like the music.

When I was in Reykjavik recently, we went to the show called "How to Beocme Icelandic in 60 Minutes. " We were impressed by the two creepy ghost songs we heard there.

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: Helen
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 01:47 PM

Hi skarpi,

I like this one:

Icelandic Folk Music - Tyrkjaránid

Helen

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: Jack Campin
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 03:53 PM

Something I found when looking that up - the festival in early July at Siglufjordur. Skarpi, have you been to that? (Musically it seems a bit hand-knitted, but the location is unbeatable).

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: mg
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 04:20 PM

don't forget we are looking forward to an icelandic song (no copyrights please..hard enough tracking them down in u.s.) to put on cod fishing tribute cd...sent you a p.m.

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 07:32 PM

How well I remember the shark meat and the firewater at Portaferry. That was a good while ago. Lots of things have happened since then.

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: Felipa
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 06:51 AM

thanks
we can multiculturally feast all the month of January - Hogmanay (Scot celebration of New year), Jennaer (yennayer, N African Amazigh/Berber new year, Rabbie Burns night, Chinese New year, Japanese new year followed by Risshun (Japanese spring festival), St. Brigid's eve ... and that's only the fests I'm aware of.

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 07:20 AM

You might get quite fat though, Felipa! *Grin*

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: Jack Campin
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 09:25 AM

"þorraþræll" is a very familiar tune, but I thought it was Austrian or Bavarian (and I've certainly never heard Icelandic words to it before). What is its origin?

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 23 Jan 17 - 03:29 AM

How about a 'Viking Blood Eagle' to entertain the crowds?

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jan 17 - 12:52 PM

OOOOH yuck Rusty Dobro, that's revolting.

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 23 Jan 17 - 01:35 PM

I'm terribly sorry, keberoxu, but I'm descended from Onundsson the Wicked, of Uppsala, and the old family traditions linger on. I grant you it tends to annoy the neighbours....

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: leeneia
Date: 24 Jan 17 - 10:27 AM

On my first trip to Iceland in 1994, I bought a recording called "Melodies in the Midnight Sun". My husband and I liked it very much, and we are still playing it nowadays.

Here's a page on it:

http://www.stefanstefansson.net/index.php/homepage/albums-sss/producer-arranger/124-melodies-in-the-midnight-sun
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Helen, thanks for the link.
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Our last visit was in September, four months ago. One night, my husband was photographing the northern lights using a digital SLR camera on a tripod. This was in the parking lot of a rural hotel. To his amusement, a number of cell-phone owners stepped up and photographed the image on the back of the SLR.

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: Jack Campin
Date: 24 Jan 17 - 12:27 PM

My posting seems to have got lost.

Skarpi, are you still reading this? Have you been to the Siglufjordur festival? It looks very tempting but I'd like to hear some first hand info.

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: Jack Campin
Date: 24 Jan 17 - 05:54 PM

Skarpi are you still here?

I was thinking quite seriously about going to Siglufjordur this year, it looks like something unique. But I'd like a bit more first-hand info.

Subject: RE: Þorri Icelandic viking feast and music
From: skarpi
Date: 24 Jan 17 - 07:45 PM

Sigluforður Festival , yes we have been there :) and we liked it very well and there is another folk festival in Akueyri also in North Iceland called VAKA festival it will be in May ...I will go that one
all the best Skarpi , Over and out .