RootOfYggdrasil
This is my own in Sweden indie produced music, inspired by for example Norse and Celtic mythology, nature, love, sustainability, and influenced by for example rock, some “folk music”, pop & metal.
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Tracks:
My Enchantress (2024)
Why Are You Selling Out Our Land (2024)
Vår kärlek den är huggen i sten (2024)
Sejd (2024)
Korparna (2023)
Nornorna(2022)
Summerbride(2022)
Sommarbrud (2022)
Mighty Star (2022)
Our Sun (2021)
Regret (2019)
Only One Planet (2019).
Welcome! Please try the tracks here above!
The songs are in english, and some in swedish. If you scroll below you can find all the lyrics to my songs. Songs with swedish lyrics are also presented with lyrics in english.
You can also here find some hopefully useful links to new indie musicians, and you can read some more here about for example vikings, Norse mythology and sustainability.
My Enchantress
Artist: RootOfYggdrasil
The dream of a much better world than this. That’s my enchantress. A world without evil. A world without war. A world filled with love. A world where the greed of the rich no longer exists. A world where there is no longer any crime. A world with a functioning nature, functioning ecosystems, increased biodiversity. A world with functioning education systems that have not collapsed due to pure greed, mainly caused by privatizations left entirely to the control of market forces, which in practice means no control and lack of transparency. A world where rich business leaders and others are willing to pay taxes to get truly functioning public institutions and stop streamlining these to avoid paying taxes, which only in practice causes the public sector to function worse in all lack of resources. The same rich people who, under false pretenses of freedom of choice, (which in practice only applies to a few), simultaneously allow and promote that enormous sums of tax money, (our money for example named as “skolpeng” in swedish, “= school fundings”), instead go to profits that make owners of large corporate groups into billionaires. Money that often leave the country and which in practice mostly benefit the richest few, and deplete public resources. If this ‘development’ continues, one must either be an idiot or have very good personal connections with leading politicians to see a future in self-financing a long education, which is required for positions in healthcare, education, or social care, for example, choosing to become a teacher. Privatizations and ‘efficiency measures’ have resulted in significantly lower salaries and development opportunities for a majority within these professions. The only things that matter to today’s politicians are more tax cuts, more desired privatizations, fatter wallets for themselves, improved conditions for themselves, and in practice, deterioration for everyone else. The dream of an equally functioning education system for everyone, that allows all individuals to grow and that breaks the ignorance that is spreading more and more, which we see today in for exampel the schoolsystem. An education system that no longer makes it easier and easier to manipulate more marginalized people, who have barely learned to read and write in today’s system. An education system that no longer only benefits the richest. The dream of a world that is instead characterized by honesty, knowledge, good morals, and a protection of environment and nature itself. The dream of a world without environmental destruction, without negative climate changes, a world where the primary focus is not continued increased growth. Instead, a world characterized by true sustainability. The dream of a another much better world. Sadly, the realization of this better world today seems more distant than ever. I hope though that this dream of a better world to be realized isn’t just an utopia in the meaning to be unrealistic in future.
The song My Enchantress is available here.
Twilight in the morning
Between sleep and awareness
Am I still dreaming?
Of you my enchanteresse?
Ah-a- ah
In a mist this world drifts
Oh so far away
Glimpse of another world
In the mist slowly appear
Ah-a- ah
Thoughts of you
Means I’m never alone
My soul is calmed by you
Even when we’re apart
We know we two are as one
Yggdrasil
Each branch divided into two
Oh so-oh
Yggdrasil
Each root divided likewise so
In two-o
Yggdrasil
The number of me and you
Oh-two-o
Yggdrasil
With worlds inside worlds
Oh-soh-oh
Twilight in the morning
Between sleep and awareness
Am I still dreaming?
Of you my enchanteresse?
Ah-a-ah
Twilight in the morning
Between sleep and awareness
Am I still dreaming?
Of you my enchanteresse?
Ah-a-ah
Why Are You Selling Out Our Land
Artist: RootOfYggdrasil
Here’s a song about true sustainability and not the fake sustainability that’s on the recent political agenda in Sweden and many other countries. The world really needs to take a very different route than this madness of continued limitless growth. Too few seems to care about future generations of humans and to care about the future generations of other biological species and their natural habitats on this planet in more long term view. Should all this irreversible land destruction be allowed to continue?
The song “Why Are You Selling Out Our Land” is available here.
Why are you selling out our land for cheap money
Why are you selling out our land for huge mining
You will destroy our land irreversibly
You seem to like to rip the crust of this earth
Oh and for what, just for short time profit
Oh just to make your own wallets fat
Polluting water supplies
So tired of all your lies
Get no forgiveness
If you start all this mess
This is inherited land
This must be remembered
From previous generations
To be inherited land to all the life
Living after you and me
Why are you selling out our land for cheap money?
Why are you selling out our land for huge mining?
To those that just will rip all off and then leave
And a polluted land will remain
For all the coming generations to live in
Tell me who gives you the right to do this?
This is inherited land
This must be remembered
From previous generations
To be inherited land to all the life
Living after you and me
You plan to use more and more nuclear power
It means you have no long-term view
You just pass on to future generations
All the problems you’re not willing to solve now
Why chose a direction very hard to regret?
When there’s sustainable alternatives
Polluting future supplies
So tired of all your lies
From grandchildren no forgiveness
If you continue this mess
Who gives you the right to sell out our ancestor’s land
Who gives you the right to sell out our children’s land
To destroy more crucial habitats
exterminate species in our land
You could instead lobby for another system
Using truer sustainability
Uniting countries to a new economic system
Promoting companies with clean activities
Disfavour companies polluting ecosystems
To stop this madness of continued limitless growth
Nuclear power is not safe and no sustainable source
And increased mining has no place in a truly sustainable world
Nuclear power is not safe and no sustainable source
And increased mining has no place in a truly sustainable world
Why are you selling out our land for cheap money
Why are you selling out our land for huge mining
You will destroy our land irreversibly
You seem to like to rip the crust of this earth
Oh and for what, just for short time profit
Oh just to make your own wallets fat
Vår kärlek den är huggen i sten
Artist: RootOfYggdrasil
The song “Vår kärlek den är huggen i sten” is available here.
| Vår kärlek den är huggen i sten – RootOfYggdrasil Första gången En sommardag på denna ö Jag mötte dig vackra sköldmö Först fattade jag ingenting Men nu är du min drottning Världen är nu ej hård och kall Efter att du fick mig på fall Förlorad i din trolska blick Åhh mitt hjärta sen dess du fick Van hand hugger runor i sten I vinternatt vid eldarnas sken Runa vid runa bildar så ord Meningsfullt först då stenen är gjord Vår kärlek visas genom dessa runor Bevarad inuti denna vår sten Vår kärlek evig blir med dessa runor Den flätas därmed in i framtiden Vår kärlek den är huggen huggen i sten Vår kärlek den är huggen huggen i sten Vår kärlek den är huggen huggen i sten Vår kärlek den är huggen huggen i sten Vår kärlek den är huggen huggen i sten Vår kärlek den är huggen huggen i sten Vår kärlek den är huggen huggen i sten Vår kärlek den är huggen huggen i sten Oah ahhh aah aah Ohh ahhh aaah ah ha ha Vår kärlek den är huggen huggen i sten | Our love is carved in stone – RootOfYggdrasil The first time A summer’s day on this island I met you, beautiful shieldmaiden At first, I understood nothing But now you are my queen The world is no longer harsh and cold After you made me fall Lost in your enchanting gaze Ohh my heart since then you have Skilled hand carves runes in stone In the winter night by the light of the fires Rune by rune forms by this words Meaningful first when the stone is made Our love is shown through these runes Preserved inside this our stone Our love eternal becomes with these runes It is thus woven into the future Our love is carved carved in stone Our love is carved carved in stone Our love is carved carved in stone Our love is carved carved in stone Our love is carved carved in stone Our love is carved carved in stone Our love is carved carved in stone Our love is carved carved in stone Oah ahhh aah aah Ohh ahhh aaah ah ha ha Our love is carved carved in stone |
Sejd
Artist: RootOfYggdrasil
The song “Sejd” is available here.
Fallen skymning vid havets strand Stjärnor lyser i vintergatans band Eldar skiner i kall natts brand Völvan sprungen ur Vanernas ätt Sejdehjällen hon nu har beträtt Huva sejdestav skinn av katt Mäktiga siare vår värdefullaste skatt Völva vad ska du få se? Völva vad kan du oss ge? Hennes blick mot himlen söker nu Stjärnan som all himmel kretsar kring Hjälper för att komma i lugn sans Långsam andning äntligen i trans Hon ser Framtid Inuti Ödesväv Försöker Forma Våra Öden Völva vad finns där att se? Formar du det som ska ske? Völvans vilda dans i ödesväv Trådar skingras i nornors livstrådsväv Hövding för vårt folk allt detta ser Önskar ändra vad vår framtid ger Hoten Mot oss Måste Värjas Så vår Framtid Kan bli Ljus Freja vad är det du ser? Ser du vad ödet oss ger? | Fallen twilight at the shore of the sea Stars shining in the Milky Way’s stripe. Fires ablaze in the cold night’s glare. The Völva [1]sprung from the Vanir’s kin, Sejdehjällen [2] beneath her feet begin. Capuche staff skin of cat Mighty seer, our most precious treasure. Völva, what shall you perceive? Völva, what can you achieve? Her gaze now seeks the sky above Finds the star around all heaven move. It aids to find tranquility Slow breaths at last bring her to a trance She sees The future Within The web of fate She tries To shape Our Destinies Völva, what is there to see? Do you mold what is to be? The Volva’s wild dance in the web of fate Threads scatter in the Norns’ [3] life-thread-web. Chieftain of our people, all this sees Wishing to alter what our future decrees. Threats Against us Must Be repelled So our Future Can be Bright Freya, what is it you see? Do you perceive what fate bestows upon us?” [1] Völva = In Norse mythology a seeress, a female practitioner of sejd: In Scandinavian history a special kind of sorcery, magic, divination and prophecy. [2] Sejdehjällen = A ritual platform used for sejd. [3] The three Norns = Are female deities in Norse mythology who govern fate. They spin the threads of fate at the root of the world tree Yggdrasil. They represent time: The past, the present time, and the future. |
The song “korparna” is available here!
| Termikens Vindar smeker Svarta fjädrar Som gnistrar i sol Luftens strömmar I vingarna leker Allt där nere Granskar vi två För vi är Utsända av Högre makt Våran gud Korp Korp Vi ser Allt De är ögon Åt den enögde guden Allt som sker De två förstår Alla ränker Som gudarna smider Gudar spelar Med våra liv Korp Korp Vi ser Allt | Thermals The winds caress Black feathers Sparkling in the sun The currents of the air Are playing in the wings Everything down below Scrutinizes we two Because we are Sent by A higher power Our God Korp Korp We see Everything They are eyes To the one-eyed God Everything that happens They understand All the intrigues That the Gods forge The Gods are playing With our lives Korp Korp We see Everything |
Nornorna
Artist: RootOfYggdrasil
The song “Nornorna” is available here.
Nornorna – RootOfYggdrasil Nornorna vårdar ömt Yggdrasils rot Tryggar så Midgårds fundament Vid brunnen Urdar så spann en gång Urd Början på den tråd som är ditt liv Fingrar formar alltjämt ditt öde Den tråd som ännu utgör ditt liv Ja flinka fingrar formar ditt öde Men när kommer då saxen fram? Klipps tråden av ja då blir det din död Det sker utan hänsyn till börd Tre nornorna Urd, Verdandi och Skuld De avgör vikings öde här hjälper ingen sköld Tre nornorna Urd, Verdandi och Skuld De avgör vikings öde och då hjälper inte bästa sköld Verdandi är nuet just nu då allt sker (Vackrast av de tre) Skuld den som framtiden ser (Och är) Tiden flyter Tiden går Tiden flyter Tiden går Nornorna spinner och avgör så öden När livstråden klipps av Urd då sker döden Färdas du då till Asgårds rike? Skålar du i Valhall med gudar som dess like? Eller möter du den ende när livet du mist? Fadern i himlen om du tror på Vite Krist? Eller möter du ett mörker i en evighet Vad som händer är det ingen nu levande som vet Tre nornor vid världsträdets rot de är tiden De vet när din sista stund är liden | The Norns – RootOfYggdrasil The Norns tenderly nurture Yggdrasil’s root By doing so Midgard’s foundation is secured At Urd’s well, once Urd did weave The start of the thread that’s your life Fingers still shape your fate The thread that still forms your destiny Yes, nimble fingers shape your fate’s course But when is the scissor brought out? If the thread is cut, then it’s your end It happens regardless of how prominent you are Three Norns Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld They decide the Viking’s fate, no shield’s any good Three Norns Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld They decide the Viking’s fate, and not even the best shield’s any good Verdandi is the present, when everything happens (The fairest of the three) Skuld, she who foresees the future (And is) Time flows Time goes Time flows Time goes The Norns spin and decree our destinies When Urd cuts the life-thread death comes into view Will you then journey to Asgard’s realm? Raise a horn in Valhalla with the gods as your equals? Or will you meet the One when life you have lost? The Father in heaven, if you believe in the White Christ? Or will you face darkness in eternal night? What happens next, no living soul knows. Three Norns at the root of the world tree they are the time They know when your final moment occurs |
About RootOfYggdrasil
In some spare time from my usual profession, l just like to, (in a humble way, try to), create some indie music. The process to create music is complex and involves, (among many other things), experiences from different ages of your own life. As individuals we are the sum of our history forced to handle and cope with the present time.
The stage name RootOfYggdrasil is taken from Norse mythology with the world tree Yggdrasil and the fact that my roots very far back in time (as far as I know), are from Scandinavia and more specifically from Sweden.
Very important to note is that my chosen stage name and my use of Norse mythology as a source of inspiration (among others), to make my own music and lyrics, absolutely has nothing to do with politics at all! The view of the world in Norse mythology with all the gods, other characters and all the stories about them is just very fascinating, and is also a part of our history.
As born in Sweden with kinsfolk living here many generations back in time, where the number of such generations are unknown, but probably, as it anyway seems in my case, goes far back in history. The Vikings with their Nordic mythology and later Christianity are examples of subjects that more or less have influenced Scandinavian culture and history.
The artist’s name is inspired by the ash tree Yggdrasil, the world tree in Norse mythology, and the way how the Vikings saw the world.
The widespread view of the Vikings as warriors ravaging and plundering foreign coastlands is a rather simplified view of them and probably not so true for most Vikings.
10 things you may not know about vikings
More recent studies, including genetic studies, reveals a rather great diversity among the Viking group. The description of them as a unified group of people is probably not so true. Some tribes were friend others where foe and different tribes sometimes fought against each other. Kinship or not among the different groups probably had a great significance.
When Christianity conquered over the more ancient Scandinavian religions and more ancient view of the world, we can’t exclude that there may have been some loss of former wisdom and knowledge unknown to us today. Probably there’s a parallel to Celtic mythology and Celtic religion, and the wisdom of druids, in ancient Great Britain.
Some creatures of Norse mythology
Related to all this and the best written version of the legend of king Arthur is Marion Zimmer Bradley’s – “The mist of Avalon”. A great book worth reading for itself.
Christianity was the historical winner and accordingly there was a loss of great wisdom and knowledge in for example herb lore, and in how-to live-in harmony with nature. The ability to live in harmony with nature seems, (at least in practice and in a global view), rather lost today. Our history should be read more “open mindedly”. We today probably have a lot to learn from our history far back in time.
The way we live today in western and eastern countries, like we have more than one planet, and far from any harmony with nature, where money, increased consumption and an abnormal reliance in market forces that seems to be the only true “Gods”. Where individuals often seem to be measured only by how much money that person have, or how useful he or she may be for an employer or for some business, where little else seems to be of any real value. We also live in societies, even here in Scandinavia, where income gaps are allowed to be widened more and more, despite all the facts learned from history, that this will only lead to increased conflicts, instability and in the end to revolutions and wars.
Too many people today seem to reject the basic fact that whenever we avoid living in harmony with nature, it will strike back on us. The climate change, the rate of species extinction, and other recent negative effects on our environment should alarm us to take immediate actions to live in harmony with nature. We must never forget that we are only a depending part of a nature. We have no real future without a sustainable environment consisting of ecosystems in balance, with clean air to breathe, fresh water to drink, food free from poisonous substances and other essential natural resources gained in sustainable ways, which means that we always should avoid overexploitation. Future generations of our own specie and other species on our planet depend on actions taken by us today.
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Our Sun
Artist: RootOfYggdrasil
The song “Our Sun” is available here.
Standing on a mountain top
See how the clouds splits up
I raise my hands to praise the sun
The sun that make all life
Here my forefathers
Struggled since the beginning of time
For this land of Midgård
This branch of Yggdrasil
This land of Midgård
This branch of Yggdrasil
My eyes are set to the sea
Beyond the horizon
Imagining foreign lands
Seeking richness and glory
Facing our star
Praising the maker
Of life, light and wind in sails
The solace of our souls
Now praising our son
The natural born leader
All evil he fights
To shelter the weak
Praising our daughters
Both as great as our son
In problems and battle
They beat the greatest men
My queen is everything
The mother of them all
Without her
Everything will fall
Taking the ancient path
Down to the ships
To leave land and loved ones
For nearest months to come
With wind in our sails
Danger we seek
To reach foreign lands
And bring richness and glory
Standing on this mighty ship
Feel how she break the waves
I raise my hands to praise the sun
The sun that make all life
Regret
Artist: RootOfYggdrasil
The song “Regret” is available here.
Regret, once there was a world
Will it ever in our time recur?
Regret, the loss of a precious friend
Will our sorrow never ever end?
Memories of those we love
Will forever stay
Prayers up to above
Still you’re ripped away
Time’s still changing
But life will go on
Our love yet retrieved
Still is believed
Regret, the loss of a precious friend
Will our sorrow never ever end?
We’ll meet again
In some other space and time
Filled with joy and laughter
In some better world of mine
Time’s still changing
But life will go on
Our love yet retrieved
Still is believed
Regret, once there was a world
Will it ever in our time recur?
“Regret is a song about our changing world. And about love. It’s a try by small means, to capture the feeling of loss about a world that is no more. This feeling may appear when you grow older and when you think back on the past and your hopefully pleasant childhood. Then there’s a mixed feeling of joy, but also a feeling of great loss and sorrow. Many of the precious persons from our past, now only remains in our memories. Some of them still remains but you don’t see them so often because they have moved or live far away from you. Perhaps you’ve also lost some person really close. The world has gradually changed and is still changing, and suddenly, but you don’t remember the exact moment when it occured, an odd feeling of alienation to the world of today appear. Then moments occur when you really wish to have the old world back, and with all the people in it that once was, and everything in the same context as then. There’s also some childish hope that at least some glimpse of the past may recur. A great solace then is all the people close to us and still with us and near us: Children, loved ones, and yet remaining friends. They give some hope in the present and to the future, in all this feeling of loss.”
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Only One Planet
Artist: RootOfYggdrasil
The song “Only One Planet” is available here.
You may have some fine carcanet
Fly around the globe like some rich rocket
Look down on earth from your high minaret
And be aware we only got one planet
To you this world may seem endless?
And poor folks should only blame themselves?
To you a clever human is some industrial celebrity?
But in our time there’s still no more planet
You should instead promote sustainability
And not just think on your own money
What legacy is given to next gen’s birth
If we destroy this one and only Earth?
Hey, when the pollution grow
You may think you just have to take some flight and go?
Forces in nature then sooner take us all
Rich or poor we will all fall
We have only one world
One world is all we have
Take good care of this world
This world is all we have
We have only this fine world
For us there is no other
Thoroughly look at the world from your high tower
In the end you’ll find it only seems you’re in power
We have only one planet and it’s called Earth
Will it ever see our next gen’s birth?
May our children also experience Gaia
Or will they end like the ancient Maya?
Can there be any future human welfare
When to many rich people don’t care?
Hey, when the pollution grow
You may think you just have to take some flight and go?
Hey, when the pollution grow
You may think you just have to take some flight and go?
Hey, when the pollution grow
You may think you just have to take some flight and go?
Can there be any future human welfare
When to many rich people don’t care?
“Only One Planet is a song about sustainability and the state of the world today that seems to be ruled mostly by money, overconsumption and a reliance in self-regulatory market forces. According to OECD in 2012 the top 5% of the richest people in the world held 71.6% of the world wealth. Among these the top 0.6% of the richest people held 39.3% of the world wealth.
The richer you are the easier it should be to think and act for the environment, sustainability and to save this planet to future generations. But is this the top priority for the richest people today, hardly not? But of course there are some exceptions.
Those that are really poor have to struggle all the time just to survive another day. They lack the means to even think about sustainability and environmental issues.
Shouldn’t mankind prove, that we can take care of this planet or will we continue to destroy it? What legacy is given to the next generation’s birth, if we destroy this one and only Earth?”
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