For people who are actually interested in how viking music might have sounded, “Drømde mik en drøm i nat“ (/I dreamt a dream last night) is the earliest music (and lyrics) known in Scandinavia preserved on the last page of the (~1200-1300) Codex Runicus as rune notes.
The song and melody is still known and used today in most of Scandinavia, as a sort of folk-standard. This version, deceivinglyslow in the beginning, is presented as close to the original sound of the years 900-1000 as historians think they can come.
This song might have survived because it was a gigantic hit, like the viking’s very own “Billie Jean”. A total pop slayer that stayed around long enough for music notes to be invented.
Justify? Pssst, justification is for lesser beings! They are above all that, they are The Dark Lord(s)! And Elven Wraiths! And Sexy Spider-Ladies! And Multiple The One Rings! Helm Hammerhand is one of the Nine! Isildur is a Wraith! Next thing – Ar-Pharazon is not dead, he’s a barista in his own chain of coffee shops on the border between Gondor and Mordor!
I would read that fic a hundred times happily before I read a single sentence more of canon-thumping screed from a Tolkien fan who thought they were literally the only Tolkien fan who’d ever thought that adapting the good professor’s work was outrageous and then mentioned something about him spinning in his grave.
Late Renaissance gold ring featuring a table-cut sapphire, likely dated to the late 16th century to the late 17th century. According to the source, the ring was given to a Cardinal upon his admittance to the Consistory. Source: The Jewelry Editor.
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