Vikings | My Mother Told Me (Old Norse) Lyrics & Translation [Halfdan & Harald]

~ More translations available in the subtitles! Brothers Halfdan and Harald singing “My Mother Told Me” in Old Norse in season 5. ► More from Vikings: ► More videos in Old Norse: ► More Viking-inspired songs: ► All my translations: The pronunciation is… admittedly spot on. Not perfect, but surely pretty good, nonetheless. The lyrics mixed up a bit the lines of the original poem, and at 0:08 this resulted in the line “that I should buy” being followed by “voyage far with the Vikings” instead of making it go “I should buy ships and good oars”, as it should have been. I know a transcription in runes of such a text doesn’t really have any reason to be, if not as