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A comment on Ask HN: What is your best native song that is unknown due to language barrier?.

Re:Ask HN: What is your best native song that is unknown due... by 5cents on Saturday November 14, 2020 @08:11PM (#25097167)
A few Nordic contributions:

Byssan lull: https://youtu.be/ogYC4LgqqnM A lullaby I think all Norwegian children have heard their beds, but it's actually Swedish

Til ungdommen: https://youtu.be/CieUTG8Z6Z0 The song became very beloved after 22.07.2011 and I think close to everyone here will get tears in their eyes when they hear it

Mitt hjerte alltid vanker: https://youtu.be/27JqZ8eEZlw Since it's Christmas soon. Very popular in Norway, although it's originally Danish

I guess it demonstrates the close historical relationship between the Nordic countries

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Re:Ask HN: What is your best native song that is unknown due... by lowkeynthorough on Sunday November 15, 2020 @08:47AM (#25101130)
Hey could you help me track down this probably Norwegian folk like song? Most likely its a oneoff song by some band but many on that thread have been keft hanging for years...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAZcAhIAUto&t=0m36s

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Re:Ask HN: What is your best native song that is unknown due... by 5cents on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:56AM (#25102098)
Hi, sorry, I've really tried to track it down, but I don't recognise neither the melody nor the lyrics. I see that it is called "Draken flyger" by Henrik Wallgren in the end. He is Swedish I think, but the lyrics are probably written closer to Norse
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Re:Ask HN: What is your best native song that is unknown due... by lowkeynthorough on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:45PM (#25108113)
Thanks!! i have tried chasing that lead.. (found only childrens songs on youtube so I thought it might be based on a childrens song.. your posts above those were awesome but guess not the same style haha)

Also there was a deckhand on that ship called Henrik Wallgren[0], guess it could be the same person wonder how likely you think that is..

[0] https://youtu.be/VHeAlOcHeSI

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Re:Ask HN: What is your best native song that is unknown due... by dairylee on Monday November 16, 2020 @03:43AM (#25109503)
I wonder if Florence + the Machine took inspiration from Byssan lull for Jenny of Oldstones in Game of Thrones as the melody sounds almost identical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTa1jHk1Lxc

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