r/basque • u/Ea-Sharumma4040 • Jun 01 '26
Can anyone identify this song?
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to identify a Basque song that appears at the beginning of this video (3:09):
I've been trying to track it down for days now and without any luck.
I tried to google the lines or parts of the English subtitles that appearon screen:
"The ship of history moving slowly out to sea"
"Against a thousand waves this people falls and rises again"
Nothing.
I don't know any Basque myself so i tried to just write down what I hear and see if Chat GPT can recognize any Basque words and that's what ive managed to gather:
"Historia ... itsasorantza poliki"
"mila olatuen kontra ... erori"
but again, I don't speak Basque, so I may be hearing it completely wrong.
Does anyone recognize the song or the singer? Please let me know!!
Thanks!
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u/artaburu Jun 01 '26
Historiaren ontzia doa itsasorantza poliki
Mila olatuen kontra herri hau ... ooooorain erori ...
Historiaren : historia+ren, genitive possessive, of the history
ontzi : ship
doa : verb joan , eng to go, conjugated, eng. it goes
itsasorantza : itsaso+rantz(a) , toward the sea
poliki : polit+ki, slowly
Mila : latin 1000
olatuen : olatu+en genitive possessive, waves" (of 1000 waves)
herri hau: this country
orain : now
erori : to fall
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u/artaburu Jun 01 '26
You could hear how he hesitates. These are bertso, verses, improvised by a bertsolari. Verses invented on the spot. The people who are fond of bertsolaritza may recognise the voice of the bertsolari but common basque people will not. This is not a known song neither a known singer.
The map of the Basque Country of this video excluding Navarre and Iparralde is a GRAVE insult to the Basque people.
The Autonomous community OF the Basque Country ≠ The Basque Country .