This video was recommended to me by Youtube

I wonder why. It's in Kazakh so I don't understand a word. The animated parts are really good though.

Tuvan Throat Singing and other 'World Music' that I really like

Enjoy this random mixtape I put together :D Obviously I have way more, but I didn't want to overdo it. Sorry that the posts have been really short and uninteresting these days and that they've been sort of quantity over quality lately. 

Some throat singing from Tuva, the southern part of Siberia:

A song with Old Norse lyrics: 

Lol this doesn't really fit the genre, but it's made by an Irish Canadian musician who is inspired by world music:

Andean music:

A song in the Maori language:

Mongolian metal? : 

 A pilgrimage song with Latin lyrics:

 What other music suggestions do you have? Comment below and tell us!

*Insert witty title here*

Look who's back, it's the best shitposter ever! You missed me, didn't you? Tyrian Purple is a beautiful colour. 

Aite, first of all, this blog has had some dank updates to the layout. I will go over them now. 

 New default font set! I thought this font set looked cute. Let me know if you think it isn't legible enough though. 

 Search bar moved to side of page instead of top top avoid clutter and to draw attention to the controversial new header. 

 Removal of the tiled frypan background, which has been on this blog since like forever, but some feedback from Aspen, who despises tiled images, and my boredom of it, caused me to change it. See the decorated frying pans in this picture? They were the background before. I may bring them back if I can't find a better image. For now, enjoy the green.  Personally, I want to add a cool Mexica/Aztec-looking background such as the one Zoe Saadia uses on her author site. Read her books! She is the best historical fiction writer ever, hands down. She's better than Gary Jennings! Anyway, I haven't been able to find a good enough image yet, but I want something like this. If we're going to go with another frying pan background, then something related to this frying pan-like object would be cool. My favicon would also make a good tiled background, but I am bored of tiled backgrounds now. A blog that uses tiled background's well is, A Lonely Potato. Those cacti are cute. I love cacti. 

 At the very bottom of the blog, I have inserted a tag-cloud. Tag-clouds help me to consider which topics I have written a lot about, and which topics I should cover more. Certain keywords, such as "Mexica" pertain to the originally decided theme of this blog, and so I will be able to see if I am diverting too far from that theme. 

YOU KNOW, IF YOU THINK YOU SUCK AT WEB DESIGN, REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO STILL USE THE "DYNAMIC VIEWS" BLOGGER TEMPLATE. I MEAN, SOME OF THOSE BLOGS ARE AWESOME, HAVE AWESOME CONTENT, AND ARE WRITTEN BY AWESOME ADMINS, BUT THEIR TEMPLATE IS UGGGGLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYY.

cLICK HeRe foR aN ExAMPLe

also please follow that blog^ it is very nice despite the template.

Frypania is always open to new web design suggestions so feel free to comment, use the chatbox, or the "Stalk Me" page to send us a message!

That is all, really! Sorry that this post is boring af. I should do a long post about an interesting historical topic soon. Thank you to all my faithful Frypanian followers.

I leave you with this dank Norwegian mixtape to listen to:

AU REVOIR, FAM!

Herr Mannelig

This is a very, very old Swedish song about a mountain troll who wants to marry a knight named Mannelig but then gets REJECTED. It's not from the Viking age though.... I think it's medieval. I don't even know. I just thought this was interesting so I posted it.... Lol. 


The language is not modern Swedish, it's OLDER Swedish X-D  I don't know much about this song though, but you should listen to it. It's good. The singer has a nice voice and this video has the english translation on screen for us noobs who 'can't Swedish'. 


Plus, it tells a story..... a good one. In the Icelandic version of the story, the troll stabs the knight after he rejects her. The Swedish version doesn't have any stabbing though, the troll just leaves in this song. 


Ok, bye. 

Dehydration lyrics video on youtube

So if you saw my last post, it contained the dehydration song noteflight version.

This song is now on youtube.

Can't embed it for some reason so here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYi2vXuI6J4&list=LLT2Zdfk9OQ_9Di3_HqUsxAQ&index=1

PS: I promise I'll do a 'legit' post soon. Winter break is coming up and I'll have time to do a non-dehydration related post! Lol. Thank you, bye!! 

Dehydration is everywhere, Dehydration is everywhere, purple skin, bloodshot eyes, dehydration

I composed a song about dehydration!! 

I won't bother typing the lyrics yet because the lyrics are on the thing :P

hopefully this shows up.... if not go to: http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/8a9125ea1cfface2fd2976988a15e1a7a80e96ff

click on 'play' then click on 'play from start'.

Enjoy!! Don't forget to drink water!!

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Another excellent song by 'They Might Be Giants' 
(which is now one of my favourite bands). 

This song is about Istanbul/Stamboul/Konstantinoúpoli/Constantinople/Byzantium/you get the idea there are a lot of names for this city. 

How do these people do it?!

Right.... so.... 
Some people may point out that this video is new agerish. Well, it sort of is..... just a little bit though.

Ok so I'm not sure what the song is called but I know that it's in Runasimi (Quechua) the language of the Incas.

See this video on Youtube and scroll down and click on 'about' then 'show more'. It should give you lyrics, information and even a translation.

Here's the video:



What fascinates me about this is
1. the singer's voice O.o
2. the pretty Nican tlaca (indigenous stuff) O.o
3. & the awesome musical instruments

the first time I watched it I wuz like

wow
such Runasimi
so fab
very Nican tlaca
wow

Seriously, the song sounds so mysterious and awesome. What do you think?!



More coming up on Frypania: 

• Details about an awesome school assignment
• Stuff I will be doing/seeing this summer vacation 
• More detailed historical posts (I haven't done these in sooooo long. I am  ashamed. I'd better research something interesting and talk about it.)
• More video posts like this one (I know some of you hate them but I'll continue them anyway)
• Art & craft posts

Also, I've been considering guest posts. If anyone is interested in sharing anything on this blog, you know how to contact me. Click the 'stalk me' button and just ask. I might let you post. 

Epic Icelandic Vikings battle song :D

Edit: I found out that this song is actually 'two sostra' by the band called 'in extremo'. It's also in Swedish not Icelandic and has nothing to do with the Vikings :/ .


I don't know what the lyrics are.
I don't know what the lyrics mean.
I don't know if this is authentic or not.

Hmm.... even the description of the youtube video lacks information :P *shrugs* So now I don't even know what this song is called.

Well, this is mysterious.

Also, here's a link to another epic icelandic song. Its called krummi by valravn.

If anyone knows anything about either of these songs, please tell me!!

A song that I found

It's an Icelandic song called 'Krummi' which means 'raven'. The band that sang it is called Valravn. I think the singer is named Anna. Plus, the video has good pictures.