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Leaving Kattegat
Featuring artist: Einar Selvik
Leaving Kattegat lyrics
1. | Leaving Kattegat |
2. | Floki Appears To Kill Athelstan |
3. | Þat mælti mín móðir [My Mother Told Me] |
1. | Viking inspired songs (part 3) |
Leaving Kattegat (to Paris). This song is a problem. It can have an Icelandic title based on Leaving Kattegat, or We are leaving Kattegat. That would go better with the Icelandic lyrics instead of an English title. The problem is that 'Safe/Intact' is repeated in the end three times and seems to be emphasized ( a concluding refrain). Hávamál seems to purposely been put there. If it were so then 'Heilir' might be the appropriate title? Since the song is about the dangers encountered and a safe return.
The only Voké (Vöké ) I know is a river in Lithuania.
I have run into several songs from the Asian steppe that have the same problem. Though their cause is a marketing ploy to make them sound interesting with only English titles that have nothing to do with the lyrics. They are yet unposted.
I don't think the title should be Icelandic just because the lyrics are, nor that the threefold appearance of the word "heilir" is a sufficient reason for using that.
What I think needs to be considered primarily is that the song has no official title yet, therefore I see as the best option to simply name it what it's actually about and how most people know it: Leaving Kattegat.
"Song from Vikings season 4, episode 6" would be closest to the truth, but that's very artificial.
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Текст песни выполнен на древнеисландском языке.