Have any harps or lyres been found in their archaeological ship burials?
Can any of their poems be set to a beat?
2006-09-26 17:55:01 · 9 answers · asked by Perseus 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I know they had a big long horn called a lur ( Next time you see a packet of Lurpak butter there is a picture of two of them on the packet, or at least there was)
2006-09-26 18:07:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 13⤊ 1⤋
Horns, drums, harps, lyres, mallets, swords, axes, shields.
2006-09-26 18:01:25 · answer #2 · answered by Totoru 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
my great grandfather was nor and he talk about the vikings, his mother, and great grand father were sea people and there music was not of harps or instruments but from there mouth, and heart and they sang how life was, you did not hear the instrument's but the soul of the people. they sang how life was and to learn from it.
2006-09-26 18:08:28 · answer #3 · answered by coolencuda 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well, we know they had a woodwind section!
www.viking.no/e/life/ music/e-musikktyper.html
vikings.homevu.net/ viking-music.html
Here's a couple of interesting sites appropriate to what you are looking for!
2006-09-26 18:05:42 · answer #4 · answered by Lorraine R 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Try this online encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking
Yes, I even searched it for you.
2006-09-26 17:58:09 · answer #5 · answered by glow33 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
who had time for music! We Vikings were too busy raping,pillaging and conquering !!(What ever pillaging and conquering means)
2006-09-26 18:09:57 · answer #6 · answered by robert w 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋
They had horns, which they carried around on their helmets.
2006-09-26 19:58:08 · answer #7 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 1⤊ 6⤋
sitar,tabla
2006-09-26 19:05:50 · answer #8 · answered by chirag s 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Electric guitars and bassoons
2006-09-26 18:02:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 8⤋