Dreyma - Composer's video: Dark Viking Battle Music - Hr Inspired by Danheim x The Witcher by Dreyma Music

Dark Viking Battle Music - Hríð (Inspired by Danheim x The Witcher) by Dreyma Music Click the 🔔bell to get upload notifications! Instruments Used: Frame Drums, Bone Flute, Vocals, Chants, Bowed Harp, Jews Harp, Hurdy Gurdy, Lyre, Bowed Lyre, Didgeridoo, Goat Horn, Cow Horn Song - Járnsíða (c) All Rights Reserved Composed & Produced by Dreyma Music Please SUBSCRIBE, LIKE and SHARE if you enjoyed, thank you =) music music music _________________________________________________________________ TAGS Music has since we were cavemen been part of our culture, and that was of course also the case in the Viking age. Today we can still find the remains of the musical instruments in our soil that the Vikings used during their lifetime. Unfortunately, we are not able to dig up their music and listen to how it sounded like, and there has also not been found any musical notations from the Viking age. The archaeologists have found a wide range of musical instruments from the Viking age, and many of them still looks like musical instruments that is being used today in some parts of Eastern Europe. Viking woodwind instruments Cow horn & goat horn The first musical instrument we are going to take a look at is the horn, this type of recorder could either be made from a cows horn or a goats horn. The people in the Viking age would bore holes into one of these horns just like we see on a flute. A horn like this would typically have four to five holes in them, but it was not always something that you could decide for yourself, the length of the horn could vary a lot from horn to horn. This horn in the image is a replica of the cows horn from Västerby in Sweden. cow-goat-horn-vasterby-sweden-viking-age-music We are also quite sure that some horns did not have any holes in them, and were merely used as a blast horn, but there is no archaeological evidence for this, however, we do have depictions of it on the Bayeux tapestry, which were made shortly after the battle at Hastings in 1066. Viking flute There has been found many flutes in Scandinavia from the Viking age, these flutes were mostly crafted from animal bones such as the legbone of a cow, deer, or from large birds. These flutes mostly had three holes in them, but there has been found flutes with up to seven holes in them. viking-flute-vikingage-music-scandinavia-musical-instruments Panpipe from the Viking age A musical instrument that you might not have associated with the Viking age is the panpipe (Also called Pan flute). One of these panpipes were found at the Coppergate excavations that were conducted from 1976 – 1981 in York (Jorvik), England. This panpipe from York is estimated to date back to the 10th century, which is at the end of the Viking age. This panpipe is made from a small slab of boxwood and the pipes were created by boring holes into the wood at different depths. panpipe-viking-age-musical-instrument-york-jorvik-england-coppergate The top of the holes was beveled slightly to form a comfortable rest for the musician’s lips. The York panpipe has five pipes, and it is actually still is possible to play the AHCDE sounds on it. Skalmejen This is a replica of the musical instrument known as ”Skalmejen”, and it was found on the island called Falster in Denmark, and it is estimated to date back to the 11th century. There is a bit of mystic around this instrument because the archeologists are unsure how it was used. Some have speculated that it was part of a bagpipe, but there was not found any remains of a leather bag at the excavation. However, there has been found one that looks very similar in Sweden, and that did have some remains of leather next to it. It is possible that this musical instrument is some kind of a hornpipe with a mouthpiece added to it. skalmejen-falster-denmark-viking-age-bagpipe-musical-instrument Jaw harp This rather strange looking instrument is a jaw harp, and it was part of the Vikings toolkit when they played their music. It really has quite a unique sound to it, that on one side sounds foreign, but on the other side sounds familiar, as if something deep down inside us recognizes the sound. viking-age-music-musical-instruments-jaw-harp-vikings Viking brass instruments Viking lur If we take a look at one of the brass instruments from the Viking age, I think we should look at the lur, since it is one of the most mentioned instruments from the Viking age. This trumpet-like instrument was made from wood and it came in different lengths. For example, lurs found in Denmark in the 90s at Herning and Holing were between 78cm – 79.5cm long (30-31 inches), and the Lur found at Oseberg ship-burial in 1904-1905 were 106.5cm long (42 inches).