This is a song I'm rooting for to win ESC so far. To me the song has a "Primal" feeling, similar to how you described her singing with the sounds of nature.

I love this song. 😍🇳🇴 You need to watch the Final performance. Her voice was better and the lyrics are different. And, you’re right. The chorus is just her vocalizing. No lyrics in the chorus.

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👌🏼👍👌🏼 Norway here too😊

It's one my two favorites (France is the other one). This is a PHENOMENAL song and vocal! btw, I don't like "Zorra" either.

What a sweet story. Almost a lullaby)))

@@Slavdya Check out the origins of the fairy tales that are told to children today, not only in Norway, but also Grimm. It's bloody stuff, later adapted for children. An example is Bukkene Bruse/3 Billy goats Gruff, which is known outside Norway. When we were children it was read to us that the goat gouged out the troll's eyes and crushed his bones to the bone with its horns. Today, children hear that the goat pushed the troll into the river.

Tack för översättning! ♥️

Jojk* its song of same people in nordic countries, they are Indigenous people, like Australia has Aboriginal and America has native Americans..

​@nina-kitty6573 This isn't joik! This is Nynorsk - one of three official Norwegian languages (Bokmål, Nynorsk, Sami). It stems from the 1800s and based on words from old norse. The verse is inspired by a text from the viking age and the refrain is a "kulokk" - a traditional way to call cattle in for feeding from the 1700s. Im sorry to say, joik and Sami has nothing to do with this song.

Oh, thank you sooooo much, Sweden! Tack så hemskt mycket, Sverige ❤❤

Yeah, but then the music-industry may have another favorite.

Atchully they lost the hole competition😭😭😭😭😭

Yes very old cow call

@@olavmarkusfrli581 100 years to b spesific :D

Wow thats sooo cool Im getting goosebumps...I kinda want to think that she is calling the sheep with her wailing but in a wolf, form, as "luring" in the sheep to the wolf would have such a strong fairytale / mystical note. I wish other people would do a bit more research to understand the song fully. Its a fantasy masterpiece.

@n5900 The song is basically about a girl who got turned into a wolf by her evil step-mother and the only way to break the curse was to drink the blood of her brother. So one day she encounter her step-mother and she kills her and drink her blood - as she was pregnant with a child, she drank her brother's blood and the curse was lifted.

I forgot to write that it is something kalled kulokk

Well that's a literal translation by a Norwegian. It's more correct calling it a fiddle, a key fiddle. He uses a bow, he doesn't pluck the strings. It was also used by the 1995 winners, Secret Garden.

Sure, but if you want the majestic mountains, you have to to the Western or Northern Norway.

It's not conclusively swedish. It is the Swedish *national* instrument, but we don't know if it came from Norway or Sweden, we just know it's one of those two. It has more in common with other Norwegian instruments like the Hardanger fiddle though (which was part of Gåte's original set, but the player resigned during their break before 2010)

What a sweet story. Almost a lullaby)))

Speculation based on the facts we know about the chorus: at some point the original call was probably “da kone” dialect for -> (kom) da kuene -> come then, cows) it was originally an old herding call and anyone who’s heard these herding songs knows that they usually include something about cows and gaining their attention so that they return home from grazing)

@@pezlover1974 Well said.

The chorus is just vocalising. It’s a part of the original «kulokk» I think🧐

And for the northern lights, go up North in the winter. Then you get full package. At least if you stay over the summer, to get the midnight sun, as well.

Ulveham also means wolf appearance (the idea that she's a human in wolf form) :)

Nah, it's in Norwegian with dialect, not Old norse. But they did have older lyrics and had to rewrite them. If you want language more similar to old Norse (Viking) you should listen to Icelandic language, as that is much closer.

Oh, thanks@@rowaystarcofor the explanation. I knew they had to rewrite the lyrics a bit (that´s what I meant) - sorry (don´t know that much about their history but I REALLY LOVE IT) - and about Icelandic - well... that´s just a bonus hehe

It's actually sung in Nynorsk, which is its own language, not a dialect. Nynorsk (new-norwegian) without getting too historical, was created in the 1800's, and was based on the spoken norwegian language and dialects at the time, as opposed to bokmål (standard norwegian), which is slightly modified danish.

Nynorsk is not a spoken language, it's a written language based on many different regional dialects. Please don't spread lies about our language. Both Bokmål (based on Danish) and Nynorsk are both written languages. "Nynorsk, frem til 1929 kalt landsmål, er et av de to offisielle norske skriftspråkene som ble vedtatt ved likestillingsvedtaket av den 12. mai 1885" There's a lot of variations of dialects within the regions of Norway, but "pure nynorsk" is only spoken by some NRK presenters that are trying to fill the "nynorsk quota" Talt nynorsk er ofte referert til som nynorsk normaltalemål (normert nynorsk)[56]. Dette er til kontrast til normaltalemålet til bokmål som uoffisielt er standard østnorsk[57]. Nynorsk normaltalemål (normert nynorsk) er lite utbredt utenfor situasjoner hvor man er bunden av manus, som nyhetsopplesere og skuespillere.[58] For eksempel benyttes nynorsk normaltalemål særlig av NRK og TV2 ved nyhetssendinger[59]. Nynorsk normaltalemål er også å finne i teater som ved Det Norske Teatret og er også brukt av lærere. @@benbong4577

No, not nynorsk, this is much much older 😊

Gåte means "riddle"

We can recognize two words: da kone. Likely dialectal for da kuene. Herding calls almost always say kom da kuene/kyrne. The rest is vocalizing without meaning.

Not onomatopoeia, but Pedro is on the money wrt nature's sound in the chorus. It's alluding to a wolf's howl, because the character is being forced into a wolf's shape by her step mother.

Nei,det er det ikke. Det er en nyckelharpa 😊

Don’t forget the other meaning of Gåte. It also means enigma. And as their songs are enigmatic, my interpretation is leaning towards enigma rather than riddle.

Not possible with a link here - but seek Gåte Ulveham lyrics - own video

I live in the middle of Norway.

The final is in Sweden, neighbours.