{"id":1495,"date":"2012-11-23T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2014-08-22T18:39:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T18:39:30","slug":"tir-na-noir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/tir-na-noir\/","title":{"rendered":"Tir n\u2019a Noir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for Norwegian music? A band I\u2019d recommend to anyone is\u00a0<strong>Vamp<\/strong>. Based in the west coast city of Haugesund, they\u2019ve been famous for their Irish-inspired folk rock since the 1990\u2019ies. They\u2019re a staple at televised festivals, and have won an armful of the prestigious\u00a0<strong>spellemann<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201dfiddler\u201d) awards.<\/p>\n<p>The band was founded by Torbj\u00f8rn \u00d8kland and vocalist \u00d8yvind Staveland, and has had many different musicians as members.\u00a0<strong>Fellesnevneren<\/strong>\u00a0(the common denominator, the thing they have in common) for all these people has always been that they are extremely gifted\u00a0<strong>musikanter<\/strong>\u00a0(musicians). Watching them live is amazing, they play any instrument you can imagine! In addition to singing, \u00d8yvind plays\u00a0<strong>fiolin<\/strong>\u00a0(violin),\u00a0<strong>bratsj<\/strong>\u00a0(viola),\u00a0<strong>trekkspill\u00a0<\/strong>(accordion) and\u00a0<strong>fl\u00f8yter<\/strong>\u00a0(flutes \u2013 takk, <a href=\"http:\/\/no.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vamp\">Wikipedia<\/a>!) Among all the instruments they use, I\u2019d say it\u2019s the \u201dfolksy\u201d stuff like violins and accordions that really make people wanna dance at their shows.<\/p>\n<p>If you understand Norwegian, the gift of listening to Vamp becomes even greater. Most of their texts are written by Kolbein Falkeid, who\u2019s published many\u00a0<strong>diktsamlinger<\/strong>\u00a0(collections of poetry) and is an outstanding poet. His lyrics are in the local Haugesund dialect. If you understand standard\u00a0<strong>bokm\u00e5l\u00a0<\/strong>Norwegian, the texts are not that hard to understand. The most noticeable differences are the word for \u2019I\u2019,\u00a0<strong>eg<\/strong>, and some slightly different endings (like\u00a0<strong>hestar<\/strong>\u00a0instead of\u00a0<strong>hester<\/strong>\u00a0for \u2019horses\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look at the\u00a0<strong>refreng<\/strong>\u00a0(refrain) of one of Vamp\u2019s greatest hits,\u00a0<strong>Tir n\u2019a Noir<\/strong>\u00a0(the title\u2019s Celtic and refers to a myth about a distant land in the west):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vamp: Tir n&#039;a noir (pictures from Norway)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XyvPglYu1MU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Va du dr\u00f8m? Va du te? Va du hud? Va du blod?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eg kan h\u00f8rra deg le. Eg kan huska eg lo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bakom horisontar,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>S\u00e5 forvitra og glir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>E du mi,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mi Mary McKear.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Were you (a) dream? Were you in existance? Were you skin? Were you blood?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I can hear you laughing. I remember I laughed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Behind horizons<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That crumble and glide<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You\u2019re mine,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My Mary McKear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the last refrain, the beloved Mary McKear anwers:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Horisontar fins ikkje.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alt du tar p\u00e5 forblir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eg e di,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Di Mary McKear.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Horizons don\u2019t exist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Everything you touch will remain<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m yours,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Your Mary McKear.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2012\/11\/Vamp-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2012\/11\/Vamp-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2012\/11\/Vamp-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2012\/11\/Vamp.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Are you looking for Norwegian music? A band I\u2019d recommend to anyone is\u00a0Vamp. Based in the west coast city of Haugesund, they\u2019ve been famous for their Irish-inspired folk rock since the 1990\u2019ies. They\u2019re a staple at televised festivals, and have won an armful of the prestigious\u00a0spellemann\u00a0(\u201dfiddler\u201d) awards. The band was founded by Torbj\u00f8rn \u00d8kland and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/tir-na-noir\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":1496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,252445,5665,252449,252448,252446,260014,259748,117736],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dialect","tag-haugesund","tag-ireland","tag-kolbein-falkeid","tag-oyvind-staveland","tag-spellemannsprisen","tag-torbjorn-okland","tag-vamp","tag-violin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}