WONDER -- feat. Liliia

by The Bright Incantations

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This is a love-song to a fjord -- a fjord I fell in love with last year, Aurlandsfjord. It's a branch of the deepest and longest fjord in Norway, the Sognefjorden.

I felt such wonder, and it followed me home as a song.

The song includes some kennings, a form of Old Norse poetry using figurative language in compound constructions -- for example, sea is "whale-road," ship is "sea-steed," the sun "glory of elves." In the song, the kennings are for fjords.

This song is dedicated to friends Aud and Evan, founders of Ægir Brewery, Ægir BrewPub, and Flåmsbrygga in Flåm, Norway. www.flamsbrygga.com

lyrics

WONDER -- feat. Liliia on vocals

[Verse one]

Cold waters
Snows white
Your wind’s
Fierce embrace

Your ice
So bright
Your cliffs
So vast

[Chorus]

How can there be such
Wonder?

How can there be such
Wonder?

[Verse 2]

Arms of the sea
Mountains' mirror

O shining tongue
Of the ocean vast

[Chorus]

How can there be such
Wonder?

How can there be such
Wonder?

Arms of the sea
Mountains' mirror

O shining tongue
Of the ocean vast

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Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aurlandsfjord_in_evening_light.jpg

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released March 20, 2024

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A project brought to you by Alf Seegert (instruments and songwriting) and various collaborators.

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