Einar Selvik from Wardruna -interview 

"It's important to not climb into trees that don't have roots." Love it!

Mathias is an absolute professional. He asks pertinent questions, then respectfully stands back and lets Einar speak and explain and doesn't interject. This was an excellent interview packed with wisdom. Thank you very much for sharing this.

20:25 Einar wants to make the whole poem of Voluspå come alive with his voice. Yes please ❤️

I had to rewatch the video cos i got hypnotized by his beard swinging

Wardruna music is best enjoyed under the open sky, in the rain, with some wind. I can absolutely relate to that. The second time I saw Wardruna live was at Midgardsblot 2016, right by the Gildehallen and the forest, in the pouring rain. It was not a concert, it was a ritual.

Insightful interview. Einar is one of the greatest vocalists alive. Skal!

Great interview. I've heard Einar speak about his work on multiple occasions including once in person. Your questions were insightful and show how much you are interested in what he has to say as much as the rest of us.

I love so much his ingenious way of perceiving past, nature and creation. His sharp analytical way of exploring and performing mythology and artistic ways as a whole. Nothing is scattered in his way of thinking and exploring. Practically, not reviving, but feeling the past, even as a fragment, as a source of creating of something that is still alive and existing. “Art shouldn’t be comfortable””. Every ingenious artist knows that. Complexities of process as.digging for truth in any form, at any level. One of the best interviews I’ve heard, especially in the sense of ideas. Genuine, indeed.

Einar's message is a pre-viking one! his connection with nature is his strenght.

I belive one important thing to take from this is that knowledge and understanding are not fast food and need time and effort. One needs to feel the resonace of the original souces within... Thanks for this Mathias

So nice that he is actually interested in talking about his art

How Raw, Organic, and BEAUTIFUL.

Haha I love hearing the background noises in this interview. Wind in the trees, the baying of the sheep

This is a great interview. How refreshing to see the interviewer asking relevant questions and nor interrupting the person they are speaking with. Just great. Einar Selvik and Wardruna are brilliant. Their music resonates with so many of us and really does allow us to ‘time travel’ and get a feeling of our ancestors and what they might have felt and experienced as seasons and events happened. Now, when I stand of the banks of the river on which the Vikings sailed into Maldon, Essex (and the river estuary from the North Sea and a small Island on which i was born) I actually feel something which I had not appreciated before…fear and fascination but an odd connection to people from the past. Einar’s music takes me to this ‘presence’. Just totally brilliant. ❤️

It was a pleasure hearing Einar's wise words!

As someone of half Nordic descent, from Norway to Finland (An American mutt). Wardruna fills void I've been missing, my mother tells me of our Norwegian grandmother anytime something she remembers comes to mind. My father is of Swedish, Danish and Finnish descent. He was a hardcore dude back in the day, he's 63 now, and his body is breaking now. Love what they are doing though, and Einar, the descendant of Bragi, fight me!

His music is awe inspiring, I listen to it everyday, and the discovery of my heritage and connecting with my ancestors, together give me peace and strength. SKAL

Great interview, Wardruna has helped me connect to my own heritage! Their songs touch such a deep resonating piece of my heart and soul! You can definitely hear the love and care that goes into each beautiful piece!

25:20 "Art shouldn't be to comfortable. Friction is fruitful"

I just realised this morning that I hasn't been listening to the "come and gone" type of music since I found Aurora Aksnes. And with her i found Silja Sol, Wardruna, Heilung, Danheim and some other nordic music and musicians. I never followed the crowd anyway but it is changed many things in my life and helped me to get even closer to who i really am inside. If that makes sense.

Excellent interview indeed! Einar has opened up a "forgotten" past! Growing up in the uk, i've always had this feeling something was missing in life. ive always felt a connection to the world but not in the right way i suppose. id never heard of vikings tv show or wardruna at all. in fact i was a major game of thrones fan. i was always watching/reading medieval-ish stuff to try and find that missing piece. anyways...2 years ago i heard this sound on the tv. the frequency was so familiar yet id never heard it before, after hearing the whole of voluspa i realised that kind of music was the missing piece of my life. i then watched vikings and was completely immersed. looking back it wasn't so much the tv show (awesome i know) but the music and culture that changed my way of life. my family were shocked how quickly things changed. they must have tought i was a nutter lol. that was until i done a dna test. was tottally shocked to find out my whole family come from all over norway and scotland/wales. It soon shut them up. now our whole family is different. we are much closer than ever before. we celebrate the old traditions properly (best we can) makes a huge difference in life knowing where you come from, and more importantly, knowing who you trully are!

Thank you both for this interview, I love anything ancestral and historical. Wardruna and Einar, Heilung, Faun, Aurora and Danheim all give me a place in time to visit in my own mind, just beautiful.

Tusen takk!Dine interessante spørsmål,og Einars kloke svar,gjorde dette til en glede å se og høre på😊

Fascinating! I just checked out a video featuring Einar Selvik and found his music to be amazing! And what a clear, powerful voice...wow! I didn't see that he has his own channel on RU-vid, but I will definitely seek out more performances to listen to. Thank you for sharing such a great artist. I learn so much every time I watch your channel.

Great interview. I saw your facebook post earlier and instantly hoped this would happen. I have huge respect and admiration for Einar and his work in Wardruna, as well as his project with Ivar Bjornson. Wardruna really gave life and sound to my inner self or my spiritual side and really opened my mind to this world of nordic folklore. Thank you for this interview, Mathias.

A true artist....

Really looking forward to seeing them this fall in NC.

I'm encouraged by Einar's comments on needing to feel passion to be good at something because that's true of me also. And his reference to his own focus on the details in his creative process as "nerdy" also gives me a boost. Thanks for this interview!

finally gonna see him live in the netherlands this november.

I used to live in Broomfield, just south of Boulder. What a fantastic area, just minutes from the mountains....so easy to get away from the hustle and bustle of the rat race. Great interview, I love Wardruna!

Good to see these videos. Please come back and make more.

I don't remember a time when I started listening to interviews with this man and just stopped watching it in the middle of the video. Beautiful interview thanks for sharing Mathias!

Veldig fint å høre et godt gjennomført intervju av Einar! Interessante spørsmål og svar!

That was an excellent interview! Good, and on point questions, as well as wise answers and precision. Thank you both Mathias and Einar.

Thank you Mathias for a great interview. You ask interesting questions and give Einar time to speak without interrupting him. Never seen this channel before, but you got yourself a new subscriber. (sorry for my English...not my first language).

Viking, Folk rock! Cool stuff and another one of my favorites is Heilung! I've once attended a wiccan ritual and a native American ceremony years ago. The drumming is key in spiritual healing and meditation.

A good interview with a great musician and a bit of a thinker :)

I love Wardruna. I love Heilung. It would be so amazing if the two groups could collaborate for a song (or a whole album)...

It seems that this interview is starting to grow your fanbase. Good job, you deserve it.

Excellent interview - thank you SO MUCH for sharing!

I love nordic music so fcking much

You get to meet and interview some amazing people you lucky dawg.

Thank you for the interview. ;-)

Very nice interview, but you didn't ask him future projects, like will there be more album trilogy projects for Wardruna? Other than that, I love Einar like my brother. So humble and open. Great talent with great personality. Wish him the best and wish you and the channel the best and thank you for doing this.

Hope to see you both this fall at the great Red Rocks!

As non European...I think world must admire European style life, cultural idea ....no hate to other cultures....

The insight into the eternal placenta is staggering.

I love this music. If I could ask for one thing only it would have to be “if you could make one album in English” that album would be the soundtrack to my life. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love all his work. I’d just like it a bit more if I could understand it in my own language. Thanks for all the great work you’ve done so far.

I would argue that ALL performance IS ritual, although some are unaware of the energy they are calling up and how to direct it. PS love the goats bleating in the background at times during your interview :) Thanks again for an informative and inspiring spotlight on intelligent, conscious application of Nordic mythology and runes. Keep 'em coming!

The man is preserving his heritage which up until recently depicted his people with horns on their heads. No easy task. I build boats and boats need different rigging and sails for different waters.....cutting a new sail or trying a Chinese junk rig for instance are new horizons on a ship ,but necessary to make successful voyages . Maintain traditions of the past without fossilizing the future is key to preserving any culture as it precedes where we find ourselves in the modern world .....horns and all!!

I wish he would make a song about sailing the seas. The sea is so ingraned in viking culture, that I feel its missing in modern interpretations

I adore him. He’s such an interesting person and holy ... - he’s so hot !!!

Great interview! And hey, nice Wulfaz intro music!!

Hmm my notifications were turned off .. Thanks yt!!! Lucky I looked at the channel an saw this!!!

I believe it is a calling. I've experienced so many weird/unexplainable things in the past few years that lead me to believe that fate might not be just superstition.

Hindsight's 20/20, as they say.

So inspiration

Don't climb a tree that has no roots. Fucking brilliant.

His Black Metal band Jotunspor is very underrated.

Everytime i heard this music i feel like war drum slap my heart make me want to go to raid

I have a question for einar selvik: if you are about to scrap, do you tuck that braid? As a fellow bearer of the braided beard, I truly wonder if this might be liability in combat.

Anyone know the name of the song in the beginning?

What is the necklace hes wearing? whats that about

🤘🧙‍♂️🤘

So, you almost have Dr. Jackson Crawford's old job :P Maybe you two should do a video together some time?

Why did gaul leave the band? Was it "creative differences"

I've noticed with any Einar interview, you just can't watch one....like eating potato chips.

Dose he ever unbraid his beard 🤔

25:23 Naudr Rune

downvote for baseball cap.