Dept. of Music

[kaffy_r]

No, Not Stray Kids

Instead, it's this perfectly gorgeous piece from the anime "Made in Abyss." 

The entire soundtrack of all the series' seasons was created by Kevin Penkin, and I think he's brilliant. This, though; this is transcendent and always brings tears to my eyes. 

Also, when I was reading the Icelandic lyric, it suddenly occurred to me that Icelandic might be related linguistically to the language spoken in the Faroe Islands, (possibly because of elisi , who doesn't quite live rent free in my brain, but does have a guest bedroom there) My google-fu tells me that's the case. 

Anyhow, I'm tired and kind of burned out, so I'm heading to bed. Here's the music.

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[verdande_mi]

This is lovely :

Icelandic and Faroese are part of the same language family, both derives from Norse. I don’t speak either language, but Norwegian and I do understand some of it. Again, same language family.

[cmcmck]

Icelandic and Faroese are related and both are related to Orkney and Shetland Norn (now sadly a dead language) and to Old Norse as once spoken in parts of England, Ireland and Scotland.

The Lord's Prayer survives in Orkney Norn:

Orkney's Lord's Prayer

The only known text in Orkney Norn is The Lord's Prayer recorded in the late 1690's by James Wallace. First published in his "An Account of the Islands of Orkney. London: Jacob Tonson, 1700.":

Favor i ir i chimrie,
Helleur ir i nam thite,
gilla cosdum thite cumma,
veya thine mota vara gort
o yurn sinna gort i chimrie,
ga vus da on da dalight brow vora
Firgive vus sinna vora
sin vee Firgive sindara mutha vus,
lyv vus ye i tumtation,
min delivera vus fro olt ilt, Amen.
or On sa meteth vera.

[elisi]

possibly because of elisi , who doesn't quite live rent free in my brain, but does have a guest bedroom there
*waves from inside your brain* *and from outside*

Icelandic might be related linguistically to the language spoken in the Faroe Islands,
Your google fu is correct. It sort of goes like this, from Most Like Old Norse, to Least:

Old Norse -> Icelandic -> Faroese -> Norwegian/Swedish (complicated, I'm not going to untangle now) -> Danish

Anyhow, I'm tired and kind of burned out, so I'm heading to bed. Here's the music.
Me too! Thank you for music. <3