Nordic Lullabies

Yeeeeeah. This is also what I was having a love-hate relationship over for the last two months. It was a roller coaster of emotion for me with this trash. I swear I re-recorded each song at LEAST ten times because my voice sucked so bad, but now I can finally sleep knowing it is done.

I will say though, making the video itself was a LOT of fun! I wanted to make it easier to know who was singing when (because obviously...it's just me singing so it's hard to tell), and so I took a drawing of the Nordics I've been working on in my spare time and made this! I think it looks kind of cool. Overall, I'm proud of this, even if I sort of hate it like a family member you can't get rid of.

OK. So, here are the songs I used!

Nuku nuku nurmilintu (Finnish)

bíum bíum bambaló (Icelandic)

Gjendines bånsull (Norwegian)

sofðu unga ástin mín (Icelandic)

I couldn't find any Danish or Swedish lullabies, tbh, which made me a little sad. But it also would've made this video like...twenty minutes long :'D

Also, I really wanted to title this "Lullabies for a Viking" but...the only Nordics who were like, legit Viking countries were Norway, Sweden, and Denmark...and there aren't any Swedish or Danish lullabies here and I guess that doesn't really make any sense to call it viking lullabies. At least, to my knowledge. I'm not exactly a Nordic expert :'D

~*LYRICS*~
(Finnish)
Nuku Nuku Nurmilintu
Väsy, väsy, västäräkki.
Nuku nurmelle hyvälle,
Vaivu maalle valkialle

Nukuta, jumala, lasta.
Makauta, mariainen.
Kuro kiisan silmät kiinni
Anna unta aamuun asti

(bíum bíum bambaló) Nuku, nuku, nurmilintu
Väsy, väsy västäräkki.
Nuku, kun mie nukutan,
Väsy, kun mie väsytän.

(Icelandic)
Bíum bíum bambaló,
Bambaló og dillidillidó
Vini mínum vagga ég í ró
En úti biður andlit á glugga

Þegar fjöllin fimbulhá
fylla brjóst þitt heitri þrá,
Leika skal ég langspil á
Það mun þinn hugan hugga

Bíum bíum bambaló/Nuku, nuku nurmilintu,
Bambaló og dillidillidó/Väsy, väsy, västäräkki.
Vini mínum vagga ég í ró/Nuku nurmelle hyvälle
En úti biður andlit á glugga/Vaivu maalle valkialle

Þegar veður geisa grimm,
Grúfir yfir hríðin dimm,
Kveiki ég á kertum fimm,
Burt flæmi skammdegisskugga

(Finnish)
Nuku, nuku nurmilintu,
Väsy, väsy, västäräkki.
Nuku nurmelle hyvälle,
Vaivu maalle valkialle.

Lintu tuopi liinahapaijan,
Haapana hyvän hamehen.
Kaskeloinen korvatyynyn,
Pääskynen peäalusen.

(Icelandic)
Bíum bíum bambaló (bambaló)
Bambaló og dillidillidó (dillidillidó)
Vini mínum vagga ég í ró
En úti biður andlit á glugga

(Norwegian)
Barnet legges i vuggen ned,
stundom gråter og stundom ler.
Sove nå, sove nå, i jesu navn,
Jesus bevare barnet.

*whisper*
[Leika skal ég langspil á
Það mun þinn hugan hugga]
[Sove nå, sove nå]
[Bambaló]

(Icelandic)
Sofðu, unga ástin mín,
úti regnið grætur.
Mamma geymir gullin þín,
gamla leggi og völuskrín.
Við skulum ekki vaka um dimmar nætur

Bíum bíum bambaló,
Bambaló og dillidillidó
Vini mínum vagga ég í ró
En úti biður andlit á glugga

(Finnish)
Nuku, nuku nurmilintu,
Väsy, väsy, västäräkki.
Nuku nurmelle hyvälle/Leika skal ég langspil á (Icelandic)
Väsy, kun mie väsytän
(^this was technically my own combination of lyrics, rofl)

Nukuta, jumala, lasta.
Makauta, mariainen.
Kuro kiisan silmät kiinni/Sove nå, sove nå(Norwegian)
Anna unta aamuun asti

Pääskynen peäalusen

~*END*~

And in case anyone was wondering, the Icelandic bits were the hardest for me to read, especially since I don't know how to speak it at all. I had actually recorded most of it when I realized that two 'll's make a 'tl' sound. So yeah. In the America's Bedtime bit where the Nordics show up, you can actually hear so many pronunciation errors it's not even funny. I'm sure there are still plenty in this, but dang...the first round was awful. :'D

Видео Nordic Lullabies канала EchoFlower