Non vult rex caelestis cum paganis et perditis nomine tenus regibus communionem habere.” Quid Hinieldus cum Christo? Angusta est domus: utrosque tenere non poterit. Ibi decet lectorem audiri, non citharistam sermones patrum, non carmina gentilium. In Latin: ”Verba Dei legantur in sacerdotali convivio. In 797 Alcuin of York, who was an advisor to the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne, expressed his opinion about the Viking music in a letter to Speratus, the Bishop of Lindisfarne. It should really not come as a big surprise to you that the Christians were very dissatisfied with the Vikings, and the pagan music was far from being among their popular songs. Alcuin of York’s descriptions of Viking age music Many of them did either have an agenda and wanted to be loyal towards the church and others were simply outsiders that came to Northern Europe from a much different climate and culture. So always take the non-heathen sources with a grain of salt, since they did not necessarily want to paint them in a favorable light. Which would make as much sense as standing outside and looking into a room from a foggy window, and then claim to understand what is going on. They probably also did not know the Nordic culture very well, and it is possible that they just stood and watched how the heathens behaved without interacting with them. Most of the sources available to us today from the Viking age have been written by people who did not like the heathens very much, and because of this they often injected their own options into their work. Rattles and bells also had that added benefit that they kept the evil spirits away from the children when they lay in their beds. There has also been found a wide range of bells and rattles, that probably also were used as part of their music. From using their voice, whistling, stomping their feet or clapping their hands, it is really only the imagination that sets the limits. There was probably no limit on what could be considered a musical instrument during the Viking age, and they probably used all kinds of instruments.
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If you have watched the series Vikings, you have probably seen Einar Selvik from the musical band known as Wardruna play on this instrument. This lyre is a Scandinavian Viking instrument but it is basically a harp, and it is an instrument that according to the Norse sagas was thought of as being a gentleman’s instrument. The Vikings also played on string instruments, and what better instrument to start looking at then the lyre. However, We are quite sure that the lur was used during warfare to gather the troops for an attack, and it was probably also used at home to warn the locals from incoming enemies. We think it was a musical instrument during the Viking age, but it is really unknown if it was, it was probably primarily used by the farmers to call their livestock back home to their farm. The lurs were made from one piece of wood which had been split lengthwise, the interior hollowed, and then the two halves were banded back together very tightly with some willow bands.
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