Ep 142 - Songs of Ravens With Benny Bråten

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

Historical, Nordic, Norse Mythology, History, Comedy, Odin, Mythology, Education, Medieval, Viking, Myth, Vikings, Thor, Norse

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode Dan sits down with Benny once more for a deep and meaningful conversation about emotions in music and Benny sings a few songs in Norwegian.

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Song 1: A World Of Ruins

I cultivated my defeats
I licked my wounds
Till I understood
That the path is created as we walk

There are no losses
Everything can be a new start
When the night is at its darkest
The morning is coming soon

In a world of ruins
can we build ourselves a castle
By laying stone upon stone
Of what has passed
Of a world in ruins
Can we create something great
We can build something new
Where the old one has stood

I needed a fall
To get up and stand
I needed to stop
To start to walk

I felt crushed
Put the pieces together
The picture is new
In the same frame

In a world of ruins
can we build ourselves a castle
By laying stone upon stone
Of what has passed
Of a world in ruins
Can we create something great
We can build something new
Where the old one has stood

Song 2: I Mirror In The Water

I mirror in the water
Sometimes with a smile
Other times there is more doubt

When my thoughts are dark
Like a winter night
Then it´s hard to stand

Even when I give my best
I can fail with brilliance
But it's part of the dance of life

All the choices I´ve made
They have brought me here
To this place on the path of life

I'm not better than others
Not at all
But I probably once thought so
Yes, I probably once thought so

If I feel lonely
I get company from
All the errors of yesterday

When I go in depth
They look like
Large scars and open wounds

If this is the hour of accounting
It doesn’t look too good
But I'll make up as good as I can

When it storms at the sea
The bottom is calm
And I strive to be like that
I strive to live like that

I'm not better than others
Not at all
But I probably once thought so

I'm not better than others
Not at all
But I think that I once thought so
Yes I see that I once thought so
I see that I once thought so
See that I once thought so
I see I once thought so

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Nordic mythology podcast, I'm Daniel Farrant, owner of the company Hans
0:11.3	of Odin and today unfortunately Mateus isn't with us. He had a snow
0:16.4	emergency. Basically, I think a snowstorm hit him or where he's about to be as to self. Early, it's a whole kind of last minute thing.
0:27.0	Unfortunately, I can't make it today. But I'm joined by the awesome Benny Breton.
0:32.1	Everybody loved the last episode you did with those. So do you want to give a quick little
0:37.5	overview of who you are? Yeah, I'm Benny as you said. I live in Norway, born and raised here.
0:45.0	I've been doing music most my life and for the last, what is it now, a bit more than 20 20 years I've been in this so-called Viking scene and
0:58.7	yeah 15 years ago I gave birth to a baby called for Kibutavun or a win and this year we released the second
1:08.4	album and then people go, oh that takes a long, but we've been doing music for a long time.
1:15.4	So, you know, in the late 90s early 2000s, it was incredibly important for me or very, very important for me to release records and now it's not the most important anymore.
1:30.0	I'm very happy, you know, it's a pleasure to do this focusing with all its challenges and gifts.
1:40.0	So I'm very happy for it and I'm grateful that people want to listen to it and know about it.
1:47.0	Yeah, absolutely. For anyone that hasn't listened to the first episode with you I suggest you
1:55.2	you pause this right now and go and listen to that one first and then we I mean in that
2:00.4	one we speak quite heavily of Midgarts Blot and we go off on a bunch of different tangents because you are obviously the man who does or at least one of the main practitioners of the ritual at Biggots well. So we spoke heavily about that and we didn't really get to the music too much I think we had to cut it off as we've just started getting to it
2:19.2	We've promised to have you back on yeah, well we managed to touch it briefly at the very end there, but.
2:27.0	No, I think we, when the conversation starts flowing we started going off on tangents.
2:36.0	Yeah, yeah.
2:38.0	But I got a question before this for the patrons actually.
2:45.0	Is it okay if we go deep today?
2:50.0	And now I'm looking to see if somebody's responding on the chat.
2:54.0	See?
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