DESCRIPTION:
Images set to a beautiful and haunting song by Mediaeval Baebes
(Middle English)
Blow, northerne wind
Send thou me my sweting
Blow, northerne wind
Blow, blow, blow!

Ichot a burde in bowre bright
That sully semly is on sight
Menskful maiden of might
Fair and fre to fonde
In all this wurhliche won
A burde of blod and of bon
Never yet I nuste non
Lussomore in lode

Blow, northerne wind
Send thou me my sweting
Blow, northerne wind
Blow, blow, blow!

Hire lure lumes light
Ase a launterne anight
Hire be blikieth so bright
So fair he is and fine
Swetly swire he hath to holde
With armes, shuldre ase mon wolde
And fingres faire for to folde
God wolde she were mine

Blow, northerne wind
Send thou me my sweting
Blow, northerne wind
Blow, blow, blow!

To Love I putte pleintes mo
How Siking me hath siwed so
And eke Thoght me thrat to slo
With maistry yef he mighte
And Sorewe sore in balful bende
The he wolde for this hende
Me lede to my lives ende
Unlahfulliche in lighte

Blow, northerne wind
Send thou me my sweting
Blow, northerne wind
Blow, blow, blow!


Blow, northern wind
Send me my darling
Blow, northern wind
Blow, blow, blow!

Radiant in her chamber is the fair lady I know
She is so stunning to behold
That this lady overpowers me
A fair and noble pleasure
Never have I encountered
A woman of flesh and blood
Who could be more lovely
In all this splendid world

Blow, northern wind
Send me my darling
Blow, northern wind
Blow, blow, blow!

Her luminous cheek is alight
Like a lantern in the night
Her face gleams so bright
So fair she is, and fine
A lovely neck she has, to embrace
Her arms and shoulders are all men could wish for
And fair fingers to enfold
Would to God she were mine

Blow, northern wind
Send me my darling
Blow, northern wind
Blow, blow, blow!

I petition Love again and again
Saying how Sighing has followed me
And Logic threatens to overpower and destroy me
As if he could
And Sorrow would keep me in dire bondage
To this fair creature
Shamelessly and against all the rules
Until my life's end

Blow, northern wind
Send me my darling
Blow, northern wind
Blow, blow, blow!