Thanks to Googoo, finding the official documentation of the court's assessment of Vikernes is like trying to push shit up a hill with a fork. But just listening to the idiot rant and rave shows that he is intellectually impaired in some manner and is a classic example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

You are right that appeals judgments are usually very short compared to first instance (like a district court) judgments. However, in some jurisdictions the court of appeal is first instance for some cases. This is also how it was with murder in Norway at the time. But perhaps that is why the judgment is so bad. The court of appeal is used to only having to comment on an existing judgment. Now they had to do it from scratch; take upp all evidence and write it all themselves.

One could speculate that as they saw the emergence of the black metal movement they panicked and felt a need to bring it to a halt as soon and forcefully as possible. Varg was perceived as the leader so they made an example of him. I think they were intent on jailing him no matter what the evidence looked like.

@@solaris9250 In all fairness, if Varg was your first impression of black metal, you would want to put a stop to it as best you can, too. But popheads tried to erase doom metal in the 1980s with glam etc, so one should just dismiss it as typical normie behaviour. The idea that the people they shit on might have different ideas about how the world should work to them is not something they are capable of understanding.

Yes, a daughter Rebekka.

She was born (Varg was 19-20) after all albums ware recorder but not released, except ''Anti-black metal'' album filosofem. Burzum 1992 album was already released by Euro. She was born probably very close to helvete shutdown, that Vargs promo/interview or De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas rehearsals and recording, late 1992 or early 1993. And then was a big conflict between him and Euro after all bs. He wanted to move on with burzum project and unreleased albums, but Euro was playing with him. Dont forget he was 5 years older than Varg, both with massive egos. Now if you look Varg situation, new born child; success from music that puts bread on the table; respect from others,... We can see why he was not taking shit from him. Euro was probably very surprised when varg showed up and than panicked when it became physical. He realised, shit he ain't playing. Now, Det som engang var was released in same month after death of Euro. Hvis lyset tar oss, month before trial. And, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas same month after trial. He recorded Dauði Baldrs in prison later that year. What a strong drive and promotion skills he had, even from mayhem and darkthrone. This is the end and ''new'' start of BM. Filosofem and De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas are the magnum opus of that era, both released when he was in prison. Thanks to OG album A Blaze in the Northern Sky, first Burzum album, early Thorns recordings and mayhem concerts (specially hell hammers drumming and Dead vocals). The end. I don't know, but there is something to think about. Does anyone know that woman that he had Rebekka with? She probably has something to say about those days.

@@ridlaridlidouzou I couldn't find anything about her.

Yeah, in a normal judgment you would read something like "the defendant has admitted to stabbing the victim but claimed self defense..." This judgment mentions ZERO points raised by the defense. Could very well be like Varg says that his lawyer did the least possible during the trial. Some defense attorneys are like that, they don't care about the case and just want to go home with a paycheck.

Thanks! Also you are the second person now to tell me the last part.

​@ I can confirm. Very calm voice.solaris9250

Two people know what really happened, one of them is dead.

I can easily imagine it starting as a self defense situation, but with Varg continuing long after the initial threat was averted.

Dauði Baldrs and Hliðskjálf are great.

He didn't invented it

What does he have to do with it?

There is a simple explanation. When I recorded the reading I did not know who Bård was. In my country publicly talking about how someone is a convicted criminal can get you into a defamation lawsuit. I wanted to not break the defamation laws in my country. So I originally intended to also blur out the name on the paper. But then I found out this was actually another famous musician, so I realised his crimes were already known to the public. Therefore no need to blur the name, but I did not have time to re-record the reading.

@@solaris9250 Good explanation, thank you!

Interesting, where did you get this info?

@@solaris9250 Satan rides the media.

I am comparing to swedish judgments, since that is what I am familiar with. Norway belongs to the same legal family though so I expect the systems to be similar. If you go way back, like a 100 years, the judgments were typically just the actual verdict and contained very little or no weighing of evidence, but for a long time, definitely more than 30 years, judgments are usually written as a kind of recreated fictional train of thought about how the court interpreted the evidence and how it arrived at its conclusion. The swedish procedural law also states that a judgment has to show how and why the court arrived at its conclusion. Failure to do so or being too vague are actually grounds for retrial and it is not entirely uncommon for a higher court to send the case back to the lower court if the judgment does not display the thougt process behind the conclusion. Personally, I believe failure to motivate a verdict in a clear and understandable way is a violation of the right to a fair trial. Btw I haven't read any other norwegian judgments and I can't even imagine how judgments in criminal cases in jury system courts (like the US) are written, since it is the jury and not the judge that determine if someone is guilty or not. I'm thinking of recording a video where I go through the judgment against Jon Nödveit from Dissection, which is a wonder of transparency in comparison to this badly written novel. Lastly, I don't necessarily believe Varg was completely innocent. But there are at least a couple of plausible alternative versions about how things went down that night. For example 1. That it truly was a self defense situation, at least until Euronymous started fleeing, or 2. That it wasn't self defense but neither a premeditated murder. Could have been a heat of the moment thing. My firm opinion is that the judge should have written how the evidence supported the prosecutors version and why the court so readily discarded everything Varg said. If I make the video about the Dissection murder then it will be clear what a well morivated judgment looks like.

@@solaris9250 Another video on Nodveit would be really interesting. A comparison with Bard Eithun would also be interesting considering his case's similar aspects to both Varg and Nodveit. Again, if this came down in America it would be pretty standard. But it's also very easy to find out what a prosecutor argued within a trial if you want to and how that fits into the judgement. Our transparency laws are pretty good in the regard. You mention that this happened in an appellate court. Did Varg have recourse to further appeal this decision because of the reasons you describe? If so, do you know if he did that?

Oh.

Slava Banderi

Be sure to watch my upcoming video about the judgment in the Dissection murder case.

​@@solaris9250Jon and his friend shot the gay guy in cold blood with a shotgun at point blank range if I remember correctly.

I have worked in a swedish prison a long time ago and I imagine conditions were comparable in many ways. It is true overall that life there is comfortable; they have video games, TV on the room, access to gym etc. However, conditions usually differ within a country between prisons (especially between old/new and high/low security classes) and there is also the occasional sadist prison guard who likes to make life difficult for inmates. I have read Varg's book about his prison years and it seems he got to experience both easier and more difficult conditions, altough compared to something like a US prison he definately had it easy. One must also remember though that imprisonment in itself is very stressful even if conditions are comfortable. You are probably right about Euronymous. But it would be nice to read an expert opinion of whether a lot of the so called stab wounds were actually from broken glass, if he had a shotgun in the apartment and whether or not he had talked to others about eliminating Varg.

@@solaris9250 Finding the court documentation of the trial and evidence is going to be quite a challenge. But given how Euronymous took pieces of Dead's skull and mailed them to people as well as made jewellery out of it, I have no problem believing in the absence of evidence to the contrary that he talked about killing Varg. Necrobutcher's interview statement about wanting to kill Euronymous himself makes it pretty clear that if Varg had not done it, someone would have.

Vargs bones get broken from hes jaws in prison!!! Thats a fact....😊

​@@solaris9250yeah, it doesn't seem like they made any real effort, into investigating fully the incident,or any alternate possibilities.

The contract could have been an agreement, to release him from his previous agreement.