Pieśń Wojów - Epic Slavic Music of Poland

Music by Czesław Niemen, arrangement and vocals by Farya Faraji. The history behind this piece is interesting: it’s often mistakenly presented as an actual medieval piece of music, but it isn’t, it’s a modern song written and performed by legendary Polish rock-star Czesław Niemen (February 16, 1939 – January 17, 2004). The lyrics and subject matter however, are medieval, mostly the latter. The literal lyrics heard here are not actually from the Middle-Ages as they are in Modern Polish, but they are a modern Polish translation of a medieval text written in Latin by a Gall Anonim, an unknown writer who was probably a foreigner in Poland (hence the term Gall. meaning Gallus, “from Gaul,“ which might indicate he was from France). Gallus Anonimus is regarded as the first historian to have described the history of Poland, and he did so in the work “Gesta principum Polonorum,“ (Deeds of the Princes of the Poles). This part of the text, that Niemen translated into Mod