What is this 'moor' that is mentioned in several songs by Opeth?Nectar for example: "Smiling in the midst of the moor", not to mention the song Moor.
Anybody got any idea?
Anybody got any idea?
Moor
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benny
Artifact Of Chaos
I was pretty sure it was an Open area of land, and thats what my dictionary says so I guess thats what it is.
Dictionary.com:
moor1 (mr)
v. moored, moor·ing, moors.
v. tr.
To make fast (a vessel, for example) by means of cables, anchors, or lines: moor a ship to a dock; a dirigible moored to a tower.
To fix in place; secure. See Synonyms at fasten.
v. intr.
To secure a vessel or an aircraft with lines or anchors.
To be secured with lines or anchors: The freighter moored alongside the wharf.
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[Middle English moren.]
moor2 (mr)
n.
A broad area of open land, often high but poorly drained, with patches of heath and peat bogs.
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[Middle English mor, from Old English mr.]
moor1 (mr)
v. moored, moor·ing, moors.
v. tr.
To make fast (a vessel, for example) by means of cables, anchors, or lines: moor a ship to a dock; a dirigible moored to a tower.
To fix in place; secure. See Synonyms at fasten.
v. intr.
To secure a vessel or an aircraft with lines or anchors.
To be secured with lines or anchors: The freighter moored alongside the wharf.
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[Middle English moren.]
moor2 (mr)
n.
A broad area of open land, often high but poorly drained, with patches of heath and peat bogs.
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[Middle English mor, from Old English mr.]
the moor is one of my fav songs. Play it loud as you can with someone who has never heard it. It freaks them out. HAHAHA so unpredictable that song!
svenske kocken
oompa loompa doopity doo
Demonspell
cheating the polygraph
Yeah...fast forward to the calm acoustic section (ooohhh ooohhh...) and then wait for the reaction when the band breaks back into the song...this works with a number of Opeth songs. I especially love when the acoustics come in only to soon give way for a heavier section, like in the last two songs on Still Life.
9mm
Pull Me Under
Demiath
Servant of the Succubi
No, "hed" is the Swedish word for "moor"....and I bet you didn't know, that if you remove one "o" from "moor", you get the Swedish word for "mother"....
svenske kocken
oompa loompa doopity doo
Satori
Destructosaur
Swedish seems like a pretty colourful and whacky language, though the chef on the muppets didn't do a very good job of denoting this.
There is beauty in variation.
Satori
HoserHellspawn
Pixel Manipulator
HEEEY!
Zee Svedeesh Cheff is cuul, he's my fefuooreete-a mooppets cherecter! I knoo it's a leettle-a sed thet I hefe-a a fefuooreete-a mooppets cherecter, boot steell! Bork Bork Bork!
Zee Svedeesh Cheff is cuul, he's my fefuooreete-a mooppets cherecter! I knoo it's a leettle-a sed thet I hefe-a a fefuooreete-a mooppets cherecter, boot steell! Bork Bork Bork!
svenske kocken
oompa loompa doopity doo
Guess what my name, "svenske kocken" means? That´s right, it´s swedish for "the swedish chef". =)
HoserHellspawn
Pixel Manipulator
Demonspell
cheating the polygraph
I have a link to that dialectizer site, I'll have to translate Opeth lyrics into "svenske kocken" speak just for laughs...
HoserHellspawn
Pixel Manipulator
Beat ya to it, Demonspell.
Heh. Oh... this feels so oddly sacrilegious...
DEMON OoF THE FELL. Seelent dunce-a veet deet. Iferytheeng is lust. Turn by zee erreefel ooff Ootoomn. Zee bleenk ooff un iye-a, yuoo knoo it's me-a. Yuoo keep zee degger cluse-a et hund. Und yuoo sev nutheeng. Felse-a lufe-a toorned tu poore-a hete-a. Zee veend creeed a lementeshun beffure-a mergeeng veet zee grey. Demun ooff zee fell. Gespeeng fur unuzeer breet. She-a ruse-a, screemeeng et clused duurs. Sedoocteefe-a feeent meest furgeeng thruoogh zee crecks in zee vell. I shunt reseest. In teers fur ell ooff iterneety. She-a toorned eruoond und feced me-a fur zee furst teeme-a. Roon evey, roon evey. Joost oone-a secund, und I ves lefft veet nutheeng. Her fregrunce-a steell poolseteeng thruoogh demp eur. Thet dey ceme-a tu un ind. Und she-a hed lust in me-a, her CREDENCE.
Heh. Oh... this feels so oddly sacrilegious...
DEMON OoF THE FELL. Seelent dunce-a veet deet. Iferytheeng is lust. Turn by zee erreefel ooff Ootoomn. Zee bleenk ooff un iye-a, yuoo knoo it's me-a. Yuoo keep zee degger cluse-a et hund. Und yuoo sev nutheeng. Felse-a lufe-a toorned tu poore-a hete-a. Zee veend creeed a lementeshun beffure-a mergeeng veet zee grey. Demun ooff zee fell. Gespeeng fur unuzeer breet. She-a ruse-a, screemeeng et clused duurs. Sedoocteefe-a feeent meest furgeeng thruoogh zee crecks in zee vell. I shunt reseest. In teers fur ell ooff iterneety. She-a toorned eruoond und feced me-a fur zee furst teeme-a. Roon evey, roon evey. Joost oone-a secund, und I ves lefft veet nutheeng. Her fregrunce-a steell poolseteeng thruoogh demp eur. Thet dey ceme-a tu un ind. Und she-a hed lust in me-a, her CREDENCE.
Orchid
Nonchalant Onlooker
a moor is:
1 chiefly British : an expanse of open rolling infertile land
2 : a boggy area; especially : one that is peaty and dominated by grasses and sedges
a Moor (capitalized) is:
1 : one of the Arab and Berber conquerors of Spain
2 : BERBER
1 chiefly British : an expanse of open rolling infertile land
2 : a boggy area; especially : one that is peaty and dominated by grasses and sedges
a Moor (capitalized) is:
1 : one of the Arab and Berber conquerors of Spain
2 : BERBER
'The Moor' is the first Opeth track I ever heard, and damn it's good.
Yes, it's a boggy area as described earlier in the thread, but somehow the swedish word I associate with it is 'mosse', and it does go very well with the Opeth nature theme.
As for why it's mentioned so much in the songs - it's a concept album no? The Moor would be a landmark in proximity of the village/town. A spooky eerie place, perfect Opeth music scenery, myths and tales circulating about it in the village.
I wouldn't think of it as a majestic place though. More on the picturesque side, gloomy, mystic when shrouded in mist, dry gnarled bushes with small leaves on dry sunny days, and always desolate, lonely.
The song seems to be sung from the perspective of an outcast. Beaten and left to die on the moor, and then wakes up as a ghost or from a trance of some kind.
All speculation of course. It would take a small book to describe exactly what visions the Moor gives me. =)
Yes, it's a boggy area as described earlier in the thread, but somehow the swedish word I associate with it is 'mosse', and it does go very well with the Opeth nature theme.
As for why it's mentioned so much in the songs - it's a concept album no? The Moor would be a landmark in proximity of the village/town. A spooky eerie place, perfect Opeth music scenery, myths and tales circulating about it in the village.
I wouldn't think of it as a majestic place though. More on the picturesque side, gloomy, mystic when shrouded in mist, dry gnarled bushes with small leaves on dry sunny days, and always desolate, lonely.
The song seems to be sung from the perspective of an outcast. Beaten and left to die on the moor, and then wakes up as a ghost or from a trance of some kind.
All speculation of course. It would take a small book to describe exactly what visions the Moor gives me. =)
