A Cealdish Winter

Far away in the snowy North of the Ceald, immerse yourself in the rumbling echoes and chants of metal melters, blacksmiths, moneylenders, and winter hunters whilst they heartily sing about what it means to survive in the icy cold of their homeland. A song that has been smelted and sung for hundreds of years by the Elders of their villages and settlements, and known among their people of this rather frigid tundra, this is a deep ancient tune that is often taught to children when they are of age. Whether it’s forging salt free of impurity, debasing greed, traveling well through glacier fjords or pine forests, hunting wolf and bear, or sleeping warm by fire and wife, or building a house mended well with good wood and earth. Though simple in its story, it hammers hard the lesson of survival and their way of life, a beat that every Cealdish man desires and strives to be. Readily tapped with a leather skin hand drum, only the vast chortles of fur traders chanting in mead halls and in the night, can be heard, with the strange billowing of a winter wind continually blowing behind. 

From Album: Tales of a Time Before Volume II

Type: Single Song

Instrument: Hand Drum and Chant

Length: 4 min

Genre: Ancient\Winter\Fantasy

File Type: MP4 

Composer and Lyricist: Jack Buie and Ashley Jones