''Land'' is the fourth studio album by Faroese

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. It is a multilingual album with vocals in Faroese, English, Norwegian, Danish in Sinklars Vísa and Icelandic in Brennivín. It was released on 30 May 2008 through

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. The album is based on Nordic folklore. The final track is a new version of the song "Hail to the Hammer" which originally appeared on a demo in 2000, and again on ''

How Far To Asgaard ''How Far to Asgaard'' is the debut studio album by Faroese folk metal band Týr. It was released in January 2002 by Tutl Records. "Ormurin Langi" is a metal version of the traditional Faroese song. A video for the song was also recorded in I ...

'' in 2002.

Track listing

References

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