The myth behind every song
Each song comes from a real text: the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, the Icelandic sagas. Here is the story, and where it comes from.
Nine Nights · 11 November 2026
Nine Nights sings the strangest scene in Norse myth: Odin hanging nine nights on a windy tree, wounded by a spear, a sacrifice of himself to himself, to win the runes.
Thought and Memory · 11 November 2026
Odin's greatest fear wasn't death. In the Grímnismál he fears for Huginn, his raven of thought, but fears more for Muninn, memory. The myth behind HEIDR's Thought and Memory.
Vinland · 11 November 2026
Vinland retells Leif Erikson's voyage west from Greenland, as told in the Saga of the Greenlanders, and the Norse site in Newfoundland that proves the sagas were not just stories.
Wolf Age (Wind Age) · 11 November 2026
Wolf Age is built on the Völuspá, the seeress's prophecy of Ragnarök: brothers at war, Heimdall's horn, Fenrir unbound, a black sun, and a green world rising again.