Featuring 18 tracks of Icelandic traditional songs and hymns. It comes in a beautifully designed 3 fold digipak with a 36 page illustrated booklet containing notes about the songs and full lyrics in both Icelandic and English.
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This tune is undoubtedly very old. According to Jón Ólafsson from Grunnavík, it was printed and published in Paris in 1780. It is in a very unusal key. A fourteenth century monk named Eysteinn Ásgrímsson is the author of the Catholic poem, which has over a hundred verses. Lilja refers to the Virgin Mary. It was believed that those who could recite a verse from Lilja would not be haunted by ghosts.
lyrics
Almáttugr Guð allra stétta,
yfirbjóðandi engla og þjóða,
ei þurfandi stað né stundir,
staði haldandi kyrrleiks valdi,
senn verandi úti og inni,
uppi og niðri og þar í miðju,
lof sé þér um aldr og ævi,
eining sönn í þrennum greinum.
Ættum vér á Jesúm drottinn
efunarlaust með fullu trausti
út af hjartans innstum rótum
allir senn með gráti að kalla.
Sé þér dýrð með sannri prýði,
sunginn heiðr af öllum tungum
eilíflega með sigri og sælu,
sæmd og vald þitt minnkast aldrei.
Heyr þú mig nú, himins og jarðar
háleit byggðin allra dyggða,
megindrottning manna og engla,
móðir Guðs og blessun þjóða:
Þá eg mæðumst í nógum nauðum,
nálæg vert þú minni sálu,
vef þú ágætu verndarskauti,
von mín sönn, er hjálpar mönnum.
English
Almighty God of all creation,
great Lord over all angels and nations,
being independent of places or hours,
keeping all places in the power of
Thy tranquillity,
being simultaneously inside and outside,
up and down and in the middle,
praise be to Thee for ever and ever,
true Unity in Trinity.
We should all implore Jesus the Lord,
without the least doubt, and with full confidence,
from the innermost roots of the heart,
yea, all of us at the same time, with tears.
Glory to Thee, with true splendour,
honour be sung to Thee in all tongues,
eternally, victoriously, blissfully,
Thy fame and power never diminishing.
Hear me now, exalted abode of all virtues
of heaven and earth,
High Queen of humans and angels,
Mother of God, a blessing to the nations:
when I have become weary of many afflictions,
be close to my soul,
embracing me in your protective lap,
my true hope, helper of human kind.
credits
from FUNI,
released June 1, 2004
Bára Grímsdóttir - vocal
Chris Foster - guitar
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