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"Eluveitie" is pronounced "Ell-vej-ti". |
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Slania, the name of the band's second album, is from ancient epitaph of a girl that lived about 2500 years ago in the eastern Helvetic Alps. The little Slania appears on the album cover . |
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In their 2009 release Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion almost all lyrics are in Gaulish (except the first song "Sacrapos - At First Glance"). Their lyrics are based on texts written in Gaulish such as prayers, invocations of the gods and other spirits. |
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Eluveitie's first EP, Vên, is Helvetian Gaulish for "Wild Joy" |
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Eluveitie is Etruscan for "the Helvetian", referring to an inscription dating to the earliest record of the Celtic Helvetii tribe from what is now Switzerland. |
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