The words are real. The language is real. The rest of it is an interpretation of what could have been. They as near as I have seen in print and interviews consider themselves artists based in bronze or iron age technology. We have no written records of actual rituals performed in the Iron age . So it is an I terpretation. The instruments, and the clothing are hand made with materials available in bronze age. You might think of it as experimental archeology into music and culture.

This song is based on the Norwegian Runic Poem, which, as in the Icelandic Runic Poem, names all the runes of the young futhark accompanied by a stanza alluding to the name of each of the runes. There is also a third Runic Poem: the Anglo-Saxon. Runic poems are believed to have served as a mnemonic tool for remembering the names of the runes and their order in the alphabet. It is an important compilation of popular culture of the time, comparable to old English sayings, Gnomonic poetry, and Old Norse poetry. The Norwegian runic poem, written in Old Norse, has been preserved in a 17th century copy of a destroyed 13th century manuscript. This poem appears in skaldic meter. And it has the following structure: The first line of each stanza is a phrase of the following type: "name of the rune + copula + X", where X is an attribute to the name of the rune, followed by a second rhymed line that provides some information somehow related to the previous sentence. In this poem and in Icelandic, all the runes of the young futhark appear in the same order. The names of the 16 runes and their order is as follows: Fé, Úr, Þurs, Óss, Ræið, Kaun, Hagall, Nauðr, Ís, Ár, Sól, Týr, Bjarkan, Maðr, Lögr, Ýr ᚠ - Wealth causes dispute between relatives. The wolf inhabits the forest. ᚢ - All dross comes from bad iron. Reindeer often run on frozen snow. ᚦ - A troll causes disease in women. Few men find joy in misfortune. ᚬ - The end of the river is the path for most trips. And a scabbard is the fate of swords. ᚱ - It is said that riding is the worst for the horse. Reginn forged the best sword. ᚴ - The ulcer is a curse for children. Death makes a man pale. ᚼ - Hail is the coldest grain. Kristr created the world of yesteryear. ᚾ - Anguish leaves little choice. A naked man is chilled by frost. ᛁ - Ice we call a wide bridge. A blind man needs guidance. ᛅ - Abundance is a blessing to men. I say that Fróde was generous. ᛋ - The sun is the light of the world. I bow down to all that is sacred. ᛏ - Tyr is a one-handed god. Often a blacksmith must forge. ᛒ - A birch has the greenest leaves. Loki forged times of deception. ᛘ - Man is the product of dust. Strong is the claw of a hawk. ᛚ - A waterfall is a river that falls from the mountain. All treasures are gold. ᛦ - Yew is the greenest of winter trees. It tends to crunch when burned. Male voice lyrics are names and words from German, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish (still unconfirmed). Uunia runus sigurd. Fähig ani regina gunda. The ritual they perform is a possible recreation. Very little is still known about Viking culture. Archaeologists believe that 90% of the objects are still buried. Heilung work closely with archaeologists, so it is possible that this ritual may have been similar to those performed 1000 years ago in the bronze and iron ages of northern Europe. The three members of the group try with their bodies and arms to recreate the 16 runes of the ancient fhutark. The video was filmed on the site ‘Les Menhirs de Monteneuf’ in France. A hug.

The only made-up word is the title No(rdic) ru(ne) po(em). Love this band and hope you will do more of them!

They refer to their "music" as ritual. In this video they are adopting the poses they found on standing stones.Everything about Heilung is as authentic as it is possible to be without written records. They take ancient runes and adapt them to music using authentic traditional instruments. The time is pre viking.

This is real Metal music, straight from Iron Age.

The name of the band means Healing in German. Norupo is taken from the first two letters of the words Nordic Rune Poem. Their performances draw from magical rituals from all over. Their main inspiration is what we know of ancient Nordic history and culture, which according to historical accounts had a now lost tradition of throat singing like Inuits, Tibetans, and others still enjoy today. The runes are actual futhark and the symbols used in their videos and live performances are associated with the Norse pantheon, Odin particularly. According to the band, they advance no religious or political views, and prefer to be thought of as historical re-enactors.

Wealth cause dispute among friends; the wolf lives in the forest Slag comes from bad iron the reindeer often races over the frozen snow. Giant causes women's sorrow; few are cheerful from misfortune River mouth is way of most journeys; but the sheath is the one of swords Riding, one says, is for horses the worst; Regin forged the best sword Ulcer is fatal for children; death makes man pale Hail is the coldest of grain; Herjan shaped the world in olden times Need leaves you little choice; the naked freeze in the frost [MALE VOICE] Ice we call the broad bridge; the blind man must be led Good year is a blessing for men; I say that Frodi was generous Sun is light of the land I bow before the holy Tyr is one-handed among the Æsir; often the smith must blow [MALE VOICE] Birch is the limb greenest with leaves; Loki brought success of deceit Man is increase of soil; mighty is the hawk's claw Water is what falls from the mountain; but of gold are the jewels Yew is the greenest tree in winter; it often singes when it burns

The guy with the Tooth headpiece, Kai-Uwe Faust, allegedly based his costume on an archeological find of a shaman‘s outfit which is 9,000 or so years old. The lyrics are based on several old/extinct European languages. Gothic, Old Saxon, Proto Norse and Old Norse, Old High German...taken from old documents, rune stones and rune staves. The music is an interpretation of what would likely have been available in northern Europe 2,000+ yeats ago. I think it is awesome. I have not yet managed to listen to "Traust" in bed without dozing off or zoning out.

Heilung ist eine deutsch-dänisch-norwegische Nordic-Ritual-Folk-Band, die Musik basierend auf Original-Artefakten und überlieferten Texten aus der Eisenzeit und der Wikingerzeit macht. Sie beschreiben ihre Musik als „amplified history from early medieval northern Europe“ (deutsch etwa: erweiterte Geschichte aus dem frühmittelalterlichen Nordeuropa).

To get a real blast out of Heilung listen to Hamrer hippyer

Sorry if the info is redundant, but Christopher and Maria also do Viking reenactments and shit as well. They are both of Nordic ancestry. Kai is a tattoo artist and actual shaman of some kind, and is German. They call their performances rituals, and consider their sound to be Amplified History. If you want to see another side of Christopher and Maria you should check out their other band Euzen. Metamorph has a really great Live at Castlefest 2015 video.

Heilung is great. Just look at the LIFA live at Castlefest concert.

those scribblings on the ground are called runestaves. Old magic.

Reality is stranger than fiction, so often informed fiction is best chance we have to experience lost reality.

This song was basically the Norse version of the ABC song. The gestures were a part of Seidur, Norse ritual magic, where the preist(ess) and their assistants physically made the rune and invoked the properties thereof. As for the costume, my inclination is their dress tends more towards Bronze Age Germanic than anything from the Viking Age. The Norse were notoriously clean, so you'd never catch one with dreadlocks, for example.

othan is beautiful, anything from lifa live dude, they met through historical reenacting and tattoos, all costumes are handmade and authentic, the lyrics all come from pre viking stone inscriptions, old sagas and poems, they dont get more legit than this, i seen them live in london end of 2019, best gig ive ever been to, more of a ritual, i tranced out and everything, they do indeed heal

Most people haven't heard this history cause it's largely a Norse history. Most history classes focus on the Roman's culturally but when it comes to the vikings and the norse people the only thing that gets mentioned are the raids. This is based on real history that includes the shamanic practices of northern Europe.

I categorise this as 'Ethnic Psy' in my collection

Thats a Tradition of Shamans in Mongoly, Finnland and the siberian Regions, the Clothes are typical for Shamans from Asia and Siberia, but a little bit mixed with old viking Clothes ... ;)

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LOL you made me laugh. You'll never hear a guitar riff in Heilung.

We don't have too many documents and video footage from the iron age in so far it's made up. But they try to approximate what it could have been like. So, if you mix passionate extrapolation with passionate LARPing, that's what you get :-)

You ask if this is "authentic germanic". The answer is no. They make this up. We have no sources what so ever as how they conducted their religion. All we know of the norse, pre-christian mythology has been filtered by christian scribes, and allthough we owe people like the Christian Snorre Sturlason a lot for actually help preserving this, much is left to desire. We hardly even know if they used temples or worshipped outdoors. We believe that eating and sacrifical eating-guilds was a thing. We also know from roman sources that the germanics sacrified people by hanging them, and thrusting spears through them, and we know that they sacrificed or executed people in moars and waters. We know little of their clothes as well. We have some finds in north germany, denemark and scandinavia of dress, but not much. We do have some interresting symbolic woven bands, and illustrations from runestones, hinting at religious processions where people dressed in animal costumes. So, no, this is not actual representation of germanic ancient culture at all. What it is, is fantastic interpretations, of how it might have been. Their tablet-woven bands are found in graves, and the lyrics they use are from actual sources, but the music, the instruments and the dress is all interpretations. I love the band, but I'd hate anybody believeing for one second that this is what bronze age people looked like and played like.

wardruna next?

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Old Norse, proto-Norse and proto-Germanic period. Lyrics are based upon ancient Rune Stones and Rune Poems. Costumes and instruments are based on everything from archeological finds to ancient historical accounts - Roman historians, early christian monks and priests and other historical accounts, etc. edit: Archeological and historical accounts tell us that most ancient cultures often added psychoactives to their mead and beer. ;)

It's about as authentic as you can get. They use dead langauges, real human bones in instruments, and real lyrics from historical texts and are maticulous in the fact they don't change anything.

i like heilung quote what the sound is amplified tribeal history with norse gemanic saxon proto european sounds

Did you see Krigskaldr in your lifechat? thats an amazing one this is also awesome,now you must watch Wardruna with Helvegen aldo they have many good songs

Nordic shamanism Language is a dead Norse recreated. And it is truly mental. Caused me no end of bedroom woes as I fancy horns on my wimmin

It's the coolest ABC song EVER!!

does anyone know who makes their drums and what skins they use? thanks in advance......also, I think most of the pipes they play are bone, antler or birch......reminds me of "pan flute".......Maria is a Norse Shaman !..........

They actually eat shrooms at the beginning, and not any ordinary ones :D A+ for the composition of this song.

It's not made up. her head gear is based on an archeological find in Sweden and it's a female shaman (seer) headgear. their movements are called stadt and they represent the runes. and they don't use modern instruments it's all medieval with effects.

Please, pretty please, go reacting to their song In Maidjan, the LIFA version live at Castelfest. In live, this is just.... insane man!

Please do Fylgija Ear (LIFA Castlefest) next!

Didn't the start remind you of a movie trailer or anything? I never heard you mention it! 🙃

I THINK THEY TRY TO GO BACK IN TIME BEFORE VIKINGS .BEFORE CHRIST MAYBE THE BRONZE AGE IN SCANDINAVIA.I THINK THAT IS THE RIGHT TIME AND PLACE IN HISTORY

They sings about the viking runes.

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Everything in the video is what was supposedly how they possibly did chanting before, even their words are real, but I'm having doubts of the bangs though, don't think they really had those.

hey man, is nice to see you reacting to this band, i remember once in your first videos i recomended that band, is a powerful music, too spiritual, like a reconection with the ancients gods, people and nature who made the path to our civilization.check this interview from another react channel with Maria Franz (female voice from Heilung) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZrKAn9WDlaubgYE.html where she explains a little about the band, the lyrics, and another interesting points ...and another projects of her, check EUZEN and Songleikr , this last one is with Maria and another member from Heilung,

i suggest you give a listen to Krigsgaldr and Anoana from Heilung.

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They look like shamans. They dont preform shows they preform ritual. They even said this themselves

Proto germanic. It is easy, with a little Research

It is Nordic but around the Roman era.

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They look like Ulfhednar to me although the legend of turning into Wolves is much older my mother was a decendant of Hakkon son of Harold Fine Hair

For something similar try a song called Rún by SKÁLD

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It is real. These are true Nordic, pagan rituals. The shaman, common man and finally, the goddess is represented by Maria Franz. And yes, it is our old ways our old religion, my ancestors....

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War mir klar, daß Du irgendwann diese Band auch mal machen würdest... ich hab den Eindruck, die werden gerade durch youtube total gehyped. Aber ich kann da ehrlich gesagt nichts mit anfangen. Aber jedem das Seine. Habe mir Krigsgaldr angeschaut... von Anfang bis Ende... und es erreicht mich nicht. Mir wäre es am liebsten, Du würdest mal wieder zu "normaler" Musik zurückkehren... insbesondere Mylene und auch Eivor Palsdottir. ;-) LG Gerry PS : Deine Kommentare NACH dem Video sind super... aber das sind sie immer. Du nimmst das alles sehr ernst und versuchst, allem etwas Positives abzugewinnen, was ich sehr an Dir schätze. Mach einfach weiter so. Es gibt übrigens ein Interview mit der Sängerin Maria Franz ! Hier ist der link dazu : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZrKAn9WDlaubgYE.html

Its music against kapitalism

Pre-christen iron age.

That was very interesting. I think mongolic musicians make those kind of music much more powerful. It was starting like something is bulding up. Kind of disappointing, because it had potential. Thats why i think mongol music (which is kind of similar) is MUCH MUCH better. For me at least. I could advice you to give mongolic music a chance. "Altan Urag - Mother Mongolia " for example. ( it is a little creepy, but still kind of amazing if you concentrate on the musical aspects). But the best to this day, that is similar to that genre is a Kazach music that is called: "Hassak - Аманат ". Strongly advice you to listen to one of them. It is AMAZING

Ahh...another reactor that asks us question and asks for help and yet does not reply to our comments.