Steingerðr’s Beauty - Old Norse Song

Music & vocals by Farya Faraji, lyrics by Kormákr Ǫgmundarson. Many thanks to my friends Delphine and Étienne for lending their IKEA-level Nordic looks to this video. This is another attempt at conveying a historically plausible rendition of what Scandinavian music of the Viking Age would have possible sounded like. Whilst the Norse (more specifically the Vikings) are more popular than ever in pop culture, and Norse-themed music is everywhere, almost all of that music is creative in nature and doesn’t seek to be historically accurate--the current audience is therefore inundated with tons of examples of very enjoyable music that is more modern and fantastical in nature than historically accurate. I wanted to add my humble contribution to the Norse-music landscape by providing a more historically informed example of what the actual music of the Norse may have sounded like, rather than music that evokes our modern pop culture idea of the Vikings like with the excellent Wardruna or H