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HistoryGuy
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Topic: Medieval War Chants Posted: 26-Oct-2005 at 19:24 |
I know of this Polish war chant, that Polish knights used to sing into battle.... It is called Bogurodzica "Mother of God"-in English. My signature is lyrics of Bogurodzica.... Here is a link to listen to the chant:
HYMN: Bogurodzica dziewica, Bogiem slawiena Maryja, U twego syna Gospodzina matko zwolena, Maryja! Zyszczy nam, spusci nam. Kyrieleison.
Twego dziel Krzciciela, bozycze, Uslysz glosy, napeln mysli czlowiecze. Slysz modlitwe, jaz nosimy, A dac raczy, jegoz prosimy: A na swiecie zbozny pobyt, Po zywocie rajski przebyt. Kyrieleison.
TRANSLATION: O Mother of God, Virgin blessed by God, Maria! With your son, our Lord, O mother chosen, Maria! Intercede for us, send Him to us. Kyrie Eleison.
For the sake of thy Baptist, O Son of God, Hear our voices, grant the wishes of men Hear the prayer which we offer And deign to giv what we ask, On earth a happy sojourn, And after life to reside in paradise. Kyrie Eleison.
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Bogurodzica dziewica, Bogiem sawiena Maryja! U twego Syna Gospodzina matko zwolena, Maryja! Zyszczy nam, spuci nam. Kyrieleison Twego dziela Krzciciela, Boycze, Usysz gosy, nape myli czowiecze. Sysz modlitw, j nosimy, A da raczy, jego prosimy: A na wiecie zbony pobyt, Po ywocie rajski przebyt. Kyrieleison
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هیچ مردی تا به حال به شما درباره خدا گفته.
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Posted: 26-Oct-2005 at 20:02 |
ZUG ZUG ZUG ZUG ZUG!!!!!!! WAR CRY!!!!!!!!
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Posted: 21-Nov-2005 at 04:31 |
At the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the Saxon huscarls shouted "Out!" as forced Norman knights away from the shield wall with their 5-foot Danish axes.
During the Reconquista, and continuing on into the 16th century, Spanish soldiers charged while shouting "Santiago!" (Saint James).
16th century Irish warriors, like the kern, shouted "Ub ubub!" (a general Gaelic shout of contempt), which became "hubbub" in English.
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Posted: 21-Nov-2005 at 09:49 |
Basques have used for long the irrintzi,
which is something like ayayayayayayayayay or eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
for as long as you can hold yelling - with a very pitched tone. It's a
yell of celebration but it can also signal the start of a battle. It
was probably one of the last things that Roland ever listened.
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Posted: 22-Nov-2005 at 11:12 |
The 'Almogavers'(mercenary troops origined in the territorios of actual
Catalonia and Valencia that served all along the Mediterranean Sea)
used to use a famous warcry: 'Desperta Ferro!!!' while they hit their
blades(or whatever they use to fight hand-to-hand) on rocks
Desperta Ferro means something like:
'Wake up Iron!!!' (Iron take life! or whatever)
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Posted: 22-Nov-2005 at 14:04 |
The Byzantines where shouting when marching :"o stavros nika!" "cross wins"
or "(name of the emperor-eg.Ioanni)..sy nikas!"or "...tum vicas!" ="..u win!)
and when charging "Aeraaaaa!" ="wiiiind!" (this was used by the 19th-20th century Greek too.
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Posted: 24-Nov-2005 at 09:26 |
Some chronicle-writer says while the noble and pious German knights chanted: Kyrie Eleison!, the Hungarian raiders shouted the devilish hui-hui.
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Posted: 24-Nov-2005 at 13:46 |
Anther Basque yell of battle (or sometimes celebration) is gora gu ta gutarrak! (up with us and our kin!).
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Posted: 16-Dec-2005 at 23:25 |
A Hussite war hymm was"Kdo jsou Bo bojovnci" ("Ye Who Are Warriors of God").
"Ye who are warriors of God and His law,
Pray to God for help and have faith in him,
that finally with him you will be victorious."
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Posted: 17-Dec-2005 at 00:21 |
Originally posted by Maju
up with us and our kin!
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Which kin is that?
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Posted: 17-Dec-2005 at 05:29 |
Originally posted by cattus
Originally posted by Maju
up with us and our kin!
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Ours.
Gutarrak means literally "the ours", "those that are ours" but I rather
translated it loosely as "our kin". "Our peers", "our friends" would
also be acceptable translations.
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Posted: 17-Dec-2005 at 14:36 |
Ok I see, I thought it may have referred to a close peoples or ally of the Basque at the time of its concoction which would have been interesting.
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Posted: 06-Dec-2007 at 01:20 |
The Spanish soldiers would usually yell out "santaiago" or "espana" when they were about to meet the enemy.........
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San Ka Raque Sadan te ma ranaqua seku kadan.
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Posted: 06-Dec-2007 at 02:15 |
"Santiago y cierra Espaa", actually.
Santiago Matamoros is the "magical" Spanish saint and super-heroe of the Reconquist. It is also the military icon of Spain.
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Posted: 06-Dec-2007 at 02:17 |
"Matamoros" I presume is composed of "matar"/"to kill" and "Moros"/"Moors", meaning something like "Moor-killer"?
It's amazing how they managed to pin that function on St. Jacob.
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Posted: 06-Dec-2007 at 02:30 |
Saint James...
Well, to understand its origin, you must go into the resistence of the Northern Spaniards to the Muslim invasion of the 8th century. The legend of Santiago de Compostela is in the root of it. Santiago Matamoros is a supernatural warrior, the specter of Saint James, that appeared in the worst moments of the battles fighting in the side of Spaniards and killing the Moors. With time it become in the symbol of Reconquist, and later in the military saint of Spain. Many cities called Santiago in the New World are named after him.
Santiago Compostela
Images of Santiago in battle
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Posted: 06-Dec-2007 at 18:05 |
Our "songs" from the time before 1500 are sadly disappeared, but we got some from the 1500-1700's, with 30-100 verses.
(and etc in the hung. and other habbits of battle:-)
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Posted: 06-Dec-2007 at 22:49 |
mmh, it occurs to me that people here confused war cry with war chant....
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