SKÁLD | My Mother Told Me (Lyrics & Translation)

~ Enable subtitles for the English translation! ► All songs by SKÁLD: ► Winter Songs (EP): ► More videos in Old Norse: ► More Viking songs: I’m fairly sure most of you know the song “My mother told me”, but did you that the version that’s become so famous is actually an English adaptation of a Norse poem? The text in question is a short stanza that can be found in “Egil’s Saga”, and it’s of course originally in Old Icelandic: “Þat mælti mín móðir“. I know a transcription in runes of such a text doesn’t really have any reason to be, if not as a treat, but yeah…that’s just what it is, bear with me. Any suggestion and/or o