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larryhammerMusic that's currently rocking my world: Krauka, a Scandinavian (Danish and Icelandic) folkroots trio. Their first album, Vikinga seiður, recreates Viking popular songs, and it fits right in with other medieval music in my collection. Since then, they've kept their period inspiration, but modernized the influences a bit -- and by their third album, Bylur, it, well, rocks. A couple tracks, on YouSendIt till they expire:
"Smeden" - About smithing iron and sending it to Iceland and Vinland.
"Bödulsvísur" - Text is a 17th-century Icelandic executioner's ballad, describing all the things he's going to do to the guilty.*
Their website has more downloads, if you dig about, and the obligatory MySpace has streaming songs (check out "Sælugaukur" especially) and videos. In the States, you can buy all three albums from The Viking Trader.
* I think a verse of this was quoted in the exhibit Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft.
---L.
"Smeden" - About smithing iron and sending it to Iceland and Vinland.
"Bödulsvísur" - Text is a 17th-century Icelandic executioner's ballad, describing all the things he's going to do to the guilty.*
Their website has more downloads, if you dig about, and the obligatory MySpace has streaming songs (check out "Sælugaukur" especially) and videos. In the States, you can buy all three albums from The Viking Trader.
* I think a verse of this was quoted in the exhibit Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft.
---L.