Serbian song translation - Probably archaic Serbian

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Serbian song translation - Probably archaic Serbian

Postby Mark95 » 2010-05-13, 19:33

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJbvXIgQco

Can someone translate this song or at least give an idea of what it's about? I find it to be quite beautiful.
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Re: Serbian song translation - Probably archaic Serbian

Postby linguopolitano » 2010-05-15, 23:03

I think this medieval Serbian church song is sung in Serbian recension of Old Church Slavonic language, just like many other medieval church songs performed by the same person, Pavle Aksentijević, probably the best performer of medieval music of Serbia.
The title (and the beginning) of the song: "Vaskliknite Bogovi" is the imperative form of the verb "vaskliknuti" (which means "to exclaim", but in this religious context it is more something like "to call out one's love") and the dative of the noun "Bog" which means "God". So, the title would be something like: "Call out thy love for God!".
The central idea of the song is the beginning of the Hail Mary prayer.
The song ends with the word "Alleluia", which is chanted very often in Orthodox liturgical praxis, just like in Roman-Catholic and other Cristian churches.


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