Vikings Composer Einar Selvik on How He Makes the Show's Authentic Nordic Music 

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Me too :)

Yeah we found him a viking bog and brought him back to life

Шикарная музыка от прекрасного человека

This guys doing the music for the new assassins creed game im so hyped.

Fuck yes!!! Thanks for the great news cant wait to play it just got Oddesy for a steal on a deal day.

Is he doing more than that one song that got released?

@@TheFiXNormal yes

The music on this game is godlike, can’t help but stop as music plays taking in the sunrises

Too bad the game sucks ass tho

Gorgoroth forever my man!

Hellyeah

@Emiliano Treleani Gorgoroth is a shell of what it once was, they've had a few decent releases since Gaahl and Einar's departure (nothing since 2015). They were running a long live circuit but obviously with recent events touring has been delayed for a good while.

@@DJTheMetalheadMercenary wait what ? there s a Gorgoroth without Gaahl now? i never really liked Gorgoroth anyway

@@ThorgalsWalhalla Yeah, read the infograph on Metal Archives/ Encyclopedia Metallum, breaks it down pretty well to why there was a separation/ parting for the full gist, but basically King ov Hell and Gaahl were suing Infernus for band rights and Infernus won after he got out of jail. Einar had left Gorgoroth before then and drummers like Nick Barker were filling in for the live circuit whilst Einar was developing various projects, and with Gaahl's input started Wardruna. Especially on the first two Wardruna albums and in live appearances you can hear/ see Gaahl in the backing vocals segment.

He has contributed to the OST ! Check it out!

And while Raids, he sings too.

To bad the actual game is garbage.

@@Schmorgus stay salty.

@@Nugnugnug I don't think you know how to use the word "salty" :P

What’s the song?

@@Keub Völuspá

@@Keub The Bukkehorn sound to me sounds like the start of Hagall

@@molybdane7240 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n0pZ3JSDLPg.html It's this one

Dagr with the Bukkehorn. ❤️❤️❤️ My favorite!

I came to him and Wardruna via "AC: Valhalla", and I only jumped on that game because... well, I had played the first two (the actual first ones, not Origins etc.), and I got into like Northern culture and mythology, also helped by "Hellblade" and in late 2019 I found out about Heilung. - So there's a whole chain of things that got me there. Weirdly, I had seen the name Wardruna go around for years, probably because I was already into Metal, which Wardruna has a connection to. But stupidly I never checked them out, because I thought it wasn't for me. - Everything at its own time, I suppose. - I'm finally seeing them this week, after a long delay.

which is the song played by him on TagelHarpa?

@@niteshvishwakarma6709 Late response, but, while I think what he's playing in the video is improvisational, it does sound like the very first track on the first Wardruna-album "gap var Ginnunga", called 'Ar var alda'. - Which in turn doesn't sound super "structured" anyway, just kinda loose. - But that album and the next, "Yggdrasil", have a bunch of this instrument in the songs. - Well, later albums as well, but perhaps a bit more on the earlier ones. - Hope this helps!

Vikings was a humans too. They are also live now, but being a Viking now is quite another matter than being a Viking in the Dark Ages. Gott fyrir þig

yes, we still are.

I guess you could say he was blessed by bragi

As a norse pagan I honestly believe he is Bragi himself walking amongst our people to teach us our forgotten music and poetry. At the very least he must be the son of Bragi

Joshua hopp why tho

Steve demigod son of Odin

Charlotte Dodd you mean Bragi?

That or he drank the mead of poetry

He's Bragi.

He must of drank the mead rather or he’s both his son and drank his fathers blood

bragi is gay

Jack Twiss well said

Jack Twiss the music is a beautiful accent but the show wouldn't have been anything without Fimmel's work. Ragnar wasn't even supposed to live beyond S.1 had they not gotten him a week before shooting started, I doubt the show would have really turned into much of anything. I don't think most people realize what a huge influence he had.

"The show just wouldn't be the same without Einar and Wardruna's (his band's) input to the soundtrack" And season 5 just proved this

I agree. Their music is one of the reasons why I like the show, even after they've killed off the one good female character and turned the other into a middle-aged Xena Warrior Princess!

I completely agree.The series itself is original and raw,but with this man's music it's complete.No better choice than Einar Selvik.He makes original,honest music

A gift from the Devil or Odin would fit better

@@rf-ec1ef why the devil?

@@Sander50cc r3f sounds like a Christian fanatic, the actors def a gift from the gods

Dreadklan Yeah - but then he took a Bukkehorn to the knee ...

Speech skill 100...

You win the comments today friend.

lol hahahaha

Well fucking done sir.

Luthien Seldomane nice picture lmao

TOFKAS01 yea there’s small historically accurate stuff But the main stuff is for entertainment

some haircuts are actually somewhat historic. its usually the ones that look very weird

Krizefugl Nobody has much idea of how they did their hair though. We know they made peculiar hairstyles, braids and all. But no description of the exact hairs are present. Fights, society and all, were quite authentic in the first season. Same were the clothes. But god, they really started throwing those things out of the window, especcially in the 4th season. Lagertha started to have cleaveges for godsakes.

there is a few scriptures with illustrations but the viking tribes werent too keen on bookkeeping. it shows some weird haricuts that kinda look more like what you would expect from catholic monks.

Why do you always need to bring that up? It was clear from the beginning the show is not going to be historically accurate. To fit the entire Viking age to 2-3 lifetimes with all it's major characters makes it instantly impossible and the gods being real in the show should tell you enough on its own. You elitists deprive so much of yourself because of your close-minded approach to everything, no wonder you got to seek affirmation from RU-vid comments all the time.

I'm not sure what you mean. Vikings were North Germanic people who travelled around and settled down and married into other cultures.

Literally.

There is a tagelharpa cello too. It is lower and just as amazing

MooSaidChicken He drummed for "Black Mass Krakow"

and the album twilight of the idols

No shit

The soundtrack is awesome! - Arguably better than the game in away, which I still like. - But it's the thing to stick around for.