TIL that the chanting in Star Wars' iconic song "Duel of the Fates" is not a gibberish alien language, but a Sanskrit translation of a medieval Welsh poem. Other chants in the Star Wars series make use of Sanskrit as well.

http://www.askmar.com/Film/Movie%20Music.pdf



Submitted April 02, 2015 at 03:56PM by pear40 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/316ea3/til_that_the_chanting_in_star_wars_iconic_song/