Gealdýr - Middangaerd (Middle-Earth) Official Music Video
Middangaerd (Meaning Middle-Earth in Old English) is inspired by the elegiac Old English poem “The Wanderer” from the Exeter Book. Tolkien himself was inspired by this poem for his “Lament for the Rohirrim”.
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Original Old English lyrics and English translation:
Her bið feoh læne,
her bið freond læne,
her bið mon læne,
her bið mæg læne,
eal þis eorþan gesteal
idel weorþeð!
Middangaerd, Middangaerd
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Here money is fleeting,
here friend is fleeting,
here man is fleeting,
here kinsman is fleeting,
all the foundation of this world
turns to waste!
Middle-Earth, Middle-Earth
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Video by:
Jörg Schmitz
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