A CELEBRATION OF COMPLETE UNINTELLIGIBILITY - HET FRIES VOLKSLIED (THE FRISIAN ANTHEM)

Some songs just demand lots of beer. And it sounds like the overflowing stadium shown in the video below has already had a head start.


THE CHICKENSKIN MOMENT!

[SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnHBu-KopzE&feature=related.]


If after watching that you lament that you didn't understand what they were singing, you have my fullest sympathy.

That's why I have pasted the text below for your edification.


DE ÂLDE FRIEZEN
[Original written by Eeltsje Halbertsma, current version redacted by Jacobus van Loon, tune presumably by Heinrich Schnoor.]

1.
Frysk bloed tsjoch op! Wol no ris brûze en siede,
En bûnzje troch ús ieren om!
Flean op! Wy sjonge it bêste lân fan d'ierde,
It Fryske lân fol eare & rom!

Refrein:
Klink dan en daverje fier yn it rûn,
Dyn âlde eare, o Fryske grûn!
Klink dan en daverje fier yn it rûn,
Dyn âlde eare, o Fryske grûn!

2.
Hoe ek fan oermacht, need en see betrutsen,
Oerâlde, leave Fryske grûn;
Nea waard dy fêste taaie bân ferbrutsen,
Dy't Friezen oan har lân ferbûn.

Refrein.

3.
Fan bûgjen frjemd, bleau by 't âld folk yn eare;
Syn namme en taal, syn frije sin;
Syn wurd wie wet: rjocht, sljocht en trou syn leare,
En twang fan wa ek stie it tsjin.

Refrein.

4.
Troch-loftich folk fan dizze âlde namme,
Wês jimmer op dy âlders great!
Bliuw ivich fan dy grize hege stamme,
In grien, in krêftich bloeiend leat!

Refrein.


Chickenskin, in the title of the video, is a direct translation of the Dutch term for goosebumps (goose flesh, goose pimples, etcetera), which are a piloerective reaction to cold, fear, awe, or sexual arousal. The Germans also describe it in terms of geese (gänsehaut), as do the Danish (gåsehud). The dutch term refers to chickens, as do the terms in Chinese (雞皮疙瘩) and Finnish (kananliha).

Piloerection is sometimes a symptom of disease, neurological disorders, or withdrawal from hard drugs.


No idea what any of these things are in Frisian.
I do not speak Frisian.


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