#hedningarna

[turgid-cucumber]

So. Sweden, a land full of great music, sends Loreen. Again.

The song is so weak and forgettable I can't even remember the name.

But Loreen gets to win again. With a song that says nothing, means nothing, and is nothing.

Meanwhile countries like Czechia (super meaningful song), Croatia (hilarious and very political), Austria (a weird but amazing bop), Germany (in last place despite an amazing song), and fucking Finland (with the catchiest song ever, a song that deserved to win), who all had memorable contributions, get sidelined.

It feels like cheating to let a past winner compete again.

And it feels like a joke for someone so forgettable to win twice. I can't be the only one who genuinely believes she's on the lower end of mediocre and one of the worst contestants this year, right???

[lupinus-bicolor]

this such a jam

[nordic-language-love]

Reblog this post and recommend a song in your target (or native!) language to the person you reblogged from! Put your favourite genres in the tags so the next person knows what to recommend :)

[ofdarklands]

🎵 i know you got the goods for mitr'a and at least one is blind guardian

oh of course there is! containing myself to only one once again

- Drafur Och Gildur - Hedningarna a bit how i imagine the keeper music to sound. he may play it a bit heavier than traditional

- Fungal Funk - Danny Baranowsky and this is the kind of thing he's making with his evil bard powers at the moment. everyone else is like 'how the fuck are you making those sounds with a wooden string instrument'

- Humans Are Such Easy Prey - Perturbator you KNOW they tell some wild shit in garlemald, not all false. also That Quest you know the one

- Grave Digger - Blues Saraceno closest thing i have for a shipping song. end of shb 'have to free myself to finish my duty/have to go get my cat while dying' era double pov

- Dark Cloud's Rising - Blind Guardian the Journey, man

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Bonus: dedicating this song to arr eorzea and her issues <3

[berryesque]

folk rock is such a genre oh god

[mokeymokey]

Check out this album cover

[haveyouheardthisband]

[karjalantroll]

(update pinned post!)

Terveh, my name is Herman, im just a tired karjalan peikko. Sometimes I draw things from fandoms, but mostly my art consists only of my characters.

He him his Touko Laaksonen enjoyer. My native dominant languages are Russian and Finnish, so posts and pictures will sometimes be in them (no big deal, I always translate it).

Strongly love mythology of Karelia, Finland and Scandinavia, so I often draw on this theme.

Favourite fandoms: Moomins, Assassins Creed Valhalla, Postal, Hilda, Troll Tales(old forgotten one), The Elder Scrolls. Favourite music: Ruoska, Syven, The HU, Heilung, Turmion Kätilöt, Korpiklaani, Susumu Hirasawa, Сектор Газа, MeNaiset, Hedningarna. ---

(I'm not banning or kicking anyone out of here, but please be aware that there may be images with drawn blood and generally dark content not intended for an underage audience.)

[cali]

i think your blog is very cool. you're posting at an uncommon angle. wghats your taste in music

thanks angle, angel .

my favorite single musical piece is the mix i babbled about ystrday. my favourite album is darklife by deaths dynamic shroud ... or volcanic bird enemy and the voiced concern by lil ugly mane my favorite solo artist is tek lintowe my favorite band is probably sugar plant my favorite music collective is drain gang my favorite video game theme is the p12 athena theme from ffxiv my favorite song to listen to while drawing is this

when i was younger i mostly refused to listen to music that i could understand the lyrics of, my favorite thing from back then that i still like is hedningarna

go triangulate something out of all that

[verdiesque]

@vorobej tagged me to post a song for each letter of my url, thank you beloved <3

v - vargtimmen, hedningarna

e - ever dream, nightwish

r - red right hand, nick cave

d - diamonds and rust, joan baez

i - i'm so afraid, fleetwood mac

e - epitaph, king crimson

s - since i've been loving you, led zeppelin

q - question of you, prince

u - under pressure, queen & david bowie

e - enter sandman, metallica

tagging @widevibratobitch @sifilide @cparti-mkiki @tenderperversion @hhorror-vacuii @zwergenmaedchen @diobrandosroom @sailorsally

[tuulikki]

https://www.tumblr.com/tuulikki/733369731375104000/my-fellow-americans-you-can-just-put-us-flags-its

I've been wondering about your Finnish url ever since learning that you're an English speaking American, and now that you don't have any roots in Finland, I'm super curious. Where does it come from?

Sorry about that time I just started to talk to you in Finnish :D

Haha, no worries! The short answer is: I’m a nerd.

The long answer…

When I was a kid, I was super into any mythology I could get my hands on. And I was a young Tolkien nerd who found out The Kalevala and its poetical style were hugely influential on Tolkien’s worldbuilding. So of course I had to read it. And, as a weird folk music kid, I also fell sideways into any music featuring kantele, which was a gateway drug into other Finnish folk and folk-y music (Värttinä, Pekko Käppi, Hedningarna’s “Karelia Visa” album, etc.).

I’d only lived in the USA and Asia at that age, and most of the “mythology” books I’d ever been exposed to were Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and some machismo-heavy Norse stuff. All very common and very easy to find in the kiddie section of my school library. Finnish mythology and folklore was the first time I had to work a little to learn. I started just with The Kalevala (and copious footnotes), then the internet, later a Finn on LiveJournal who would straight-up translate lyrics/verse, and then puttering around to the local Nordic museum.

I have a lot of nostalgia for that as my first foray into what was, for me, something that stands at the transition point between my being a Mythology Kid™️ and being a more adult-shaped-creature who had to consider mythology, not as an inert curiosity and kiddie hobby, but as one aspect of traditions that exist in relation to real things like nationalism, identity, Romanticism, ethnography, and all that.

So, with that history, when I set out to make a tumblr username, I picked a name I knew from The Kalevala, because literally every other name from stories or myth I knew or could think of was already taken.

A further little joy was that I also loved the Moomintroll books as a kid in the 90s. And some kids in my neighbourhood in Hong Kong had access to the TV show (I don’t remember how) so I got properly scared of the animated Groke. So now, knowing about Tuulikki Pietilä and Tove Jansson, I have a further pleasant coincidence from my already very coincidence- and happenstance-heavy username.

And I do have to agree with Tolkien, in the end: Finnish is a fucking cool language. People are always like “ohh French is so romantic!” and sure maybe but is French cool. I’m not a linguist, but I know the number of grammatical cases a European language has is directly proportional to how hard it fucks.

I… hope that’s an answer that makes sense 😅

[ofdarklands]

very nice

[neopessimiste]

top 5 songs meme

(I cannot for the life of me choose all time faves so I'm just gonna pick stuff I've had on repeat recently for my own sanitys sake lmaooo)

Desert - D'espairsRay

RED - the GazettE

Shikisai Moment - ClearVeil

Luke Skywalker - Broder Daniel

Hedersmannen - Hedningarna

tagged by: @vaynglories

tagging: you. :-)

[arcticfoxtrap]

Me: Wow! This song (in this case Kruspolska by Hedningarna) is really good and is perfect for [Rouge and Knuckles's] dynamic! I'm gonna share this with my friend-

Also Me: *Realizes the song is in Finnish/Swedish so they won't understand it*

... Welp, translate time.