This is a very spiritual song, it is about walking on the road to death and to not be afraid. Its almost like singing to a friend who recently passed, comforting him and singing him on his way. They literally sing ”Who will sing me into my death-sleep?” Norse culture has songs for everything, this is about singing someone over the bridge of Gjallar and into the realm of the goddess of death called Hel (not to be confused with the christian hell). Its a very emotional and beautiful song. edit: some spelling.

Finally some Wardruna. Einar is also a former drummer for the black metal band Gorgoroth

Here are the lyrics, and the english translation: "Hvem skal synge meg-------------Who shall sing me i daudsvevna slynge meg------------into the death-sleep sling me når eg på Helvegen går------------When I walk on the Path of Death og dei spora eg trår er kalda, så kalda-------and the tracks I tread are cold, so cold Eg songane søkte---------------I sought the songs Eg songane sende--------------I sent the songs då den djupaste brunni------------when the deepest well gav meg dråper så ramme------------gave me the drops so touched av Valfaders pant---------------of Death-fathers wager Alt veit eg, Odin-----------------I know it all, Odin kvar du auge løynde------------where you hid your eye Hvem skal synge meg-------------Who shall sing me i daudsvevna slynge meg------------into the death-sleep sling me når eg på Helvegen går------------When I walk on the Path of Death og dei spora eg trår er kalda, så kalda-------and the tracks I tread are cold, so cold Årle ell i dagars hell--------------early in the days end enn veit ravnen om eg fell------------still the raven knows if I fall Når du ved Helgrindi står -----------When you stand by the Gate of Death og når du laus deg må riva------------And you have to tear free skal eg fylgje deg-----------------I shall follow you over Gjallarbrua med min song-----------across the Resounding Bridge with my song Du blir løyst frå banda som bind deg!---------You will be free from the bonds that bind you! Du er løyst frå banda som batt deg!----------You are free from the bonds that bound that you! Døyr fe, døyr frender---------------Cattle die, kinsmen die Døyr sjølv det sama----------------You yourself will also die men ordet om deg aldreg døyr----------but the word about you will never die vinn du et gjetord gjevt---------------if you win a good reputation Døyr fe, døyr frender ----------------Cattle die, kinsmen die Døyr sjølv det sama----------------You yourself will also die Eg veit et som aldreg døyr------------I know one that never dies dom om daudan kvar---------------the reputation of those who died"

"It sounds like the norwegian landscape" on aurora's voice.. i like that analogy.. seems accurate to me

Einar has a powerful voice. He wrote some music for the TV series Vikings, has a solo career and performs A LOT. He is one of my favorite vocalist and seems like a nice guy. Wardruna are AMAZING and you should listen to more of them when you are wanting a relaxing journey. Aurora IS one of the best vocalist ever. Her vocal is ethereal. Her emotional connection to whatever she sings is very visible and I think that is what makes her stand out more than others. Good video!

At this point i think Beth is reacting to my playlist

One of the most prominent virtues of Wardruna, is it's basically shamanic. There is such a chant, or cadence, although melodic, that it is very meditative. Putting the listener in a trance like state. Thank you for this reaction! Amazing!

when she sings i can imagine i see through the eyes of a raven that flies through the mountains above fjords. Also the voice matching great. her voice is like the wide of the landscape their peacfullnes and the silentnes. While his voice describes the roughness of the culture and the life in such harsh but wonderful and mystic lands.

I went from France to London just to see of their performance, that's one of my favourite band... i was crying during the show, i couldn't hold my emotions because it was way too beautiful ... i will definitly see them again soon

I get goosebumps every time I listen to this. Awesome that you've done a reaction. Heill Ódinn.

This reaction made me a big surprise! I love Wardruna so much and this song makes me have goosebumps every single time I hear it.. thank you Beth ❤️

Finally!!! Wardruna is one of my favorite bands and it was great seeing you react to them. perhaps you would react to "Wardruna - Rotlaust tre fell (Live in Moscow)". Or the "FMF 2015: International TV Series Gala: Vikings suite, Trevor Morris" where Einar preformed. (as well as the amazing cellist Tina Guo)

i have said it since i found this song. this is for at my burial. gives me chills from front to back. i love wardruna.

Please react to Einar Selvik's "Voluspa"! Would love to know what exactly he is doing.

So happy you finally reviewed this one. Wardruna makes some of the most compelling music I’ve ever heard.

SO much love for Wardruna! And this song is my ultimate favorite for a lot of reasons. Additionally, when my daughter was between 6m and 1y old (she's 2.5 now), we would help her sleep by playing this song and walking in time with the main beat in a dark room. Worked *every* time. She really loves drums. Thanks for this react! So awesome! :)

Wardruna is my all time favorite band. I live in the US, traveled to Toronto 2018 to see them. I will see them again this October at the Red Rocks Amphitheater that is outdoors. There music, goes deep, beyond the ears to the very being of who you are. I cannot stop listening to them. So glad you appreciate this music.

This performance is filmed at Bergenhus Fortress in Bergen, Norway. A great location for this kind of music since the fortress was build in the early 1200's.

Wonderful.....thank you! I listening to Wardruna for 2 years now, and they are never boring!

I'm so glad you reacted to this, one of my favorite performances with Aurora. She's truly incredible.

Pleasantly surprised to finally see Wardruna be given a spot :)

Amazing! He performed this song with Eivør Pálsdóttir as well

It Happened Quiet by Aurora! She has two live performances I know of and they're both amazing! UPVOTE ME PLEASE, I've been asking for this for months lol.

man, this music just stirs something in the soul. it's so beautiful, i can't listen without getting chills.

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Great video! I love the technical breakdown, of this deeply moving and spiritual song. I hope you do more like this! Subscribed!

Love the review Beth,explained very well and it brings me into the "zone",so to speak. Beautiful expression when you mentioned "A Hug Of Sound"..It's a magical feeling when this is present at a live performance. Keep up the good work !

I have been waiting for this so badly!

This is one of those songs where I have no idea what they are saying but I still love it, first time I heard it I had goosebumps.

I was attending this very concert when they performed this version of Helvegen...And I can tell you it was such an amazing experience! :D I can recommend a cover version of this song as well, from Kalandra! It is pretty interesting and I instantly fell in love with it!

MORE AURORAAAAA 🥰😭

this never falls to give me massive tingles from head to toe, it awakens something ancestral in my soul

Thank you for reviewing this in detail. Respect and good wishes.

I love Wardruna, and Aurora as well, I think togheter they sound amazing! greetings from Argentina, your videos are very enjoyable❤

I am back five years to the anniversary of when you reacted to this. I appreciate it more now after watching another reactor react to today. I think I just wasn't ready last year. I wanted to hear more of Aurora and I was hearing more of the guy instead. Ha ha. Now I really appreciate his voice. There's something very soothing about it.

To me, this song is like something I've always known, I feel like listening to a past life music, it moves me so much! Thanks for your reaction!

Great video - thanks for all your hard work

Seeing wardruna live was probably the best experience I've had with live music. In all honesty it felt less like a festival when I saw them more like a spiritual experience.

As a swedish viking and fully belives in asatru. I saw wardruna 2016 in gothenburg! and i can just say that the gods we're present and i was in tears

I really like this type of musical genre, in particular I move to another time and experience viquinga.I love it !!!!

"It sounds like the Norwegian landscape." Love this.

Thank you Beth. Your reaction makes many of us proud. This song is an Anthem for those of us into the old ways, it was ancient the moment it was sung. Indeed a true bardic masterpiece. Thank you again.

Yay I was waiting for this one))

Finally! I’m so glad I just spotted you’ve reacted to this, I recommended it when I saw you react to Heilung Live

This song is SO amazing. I can’t listen to rain without humming it. It IS rain. And aurora’s voice, god. Thank you for making these videos about it, the way you explain things is really cool :)

I’ve seen Wardruna in the UK 3 times now. Best live band I’ve ever seen, hands down.

the horn is a late iron age lure, originally a bronze age instrument that was used in Scandinavia up until the mid to late medieval age

Awesome that you reacted to this 😀 This was from Wardruna concert in their (and Aurora) hometown, Bergen. My daughter and I was on this concert, and we had goosebumps all the time. This song was the last one, and it is about singing for someone who have died. Taking farewell.

Never clicked on a video so fast! Love you and Wardruna

It is a delight to listen to someone so informative.

I love this song. Had not heard this rendition. I like living in a time where I can experience amazing bands with such ease.

Makes me smile at the way this music reaches you!

Its the fact that this music takes you back to an ancient place that you feel deep down inside of your soul. Im so happy you've found them. I have tickets to see them in October I can't wait

That is simply beautiful.

You'll have to go to the scene in Vikings that this song was played during, they were getting ready to find Athelstan. Such a haunting song.

This whole song... there are no words to describe the haunting beauty of what they created. I loved Helvegen before Aurora joined them, but her voice really harmonises, it's so beautiful. Loved your reaction =)

Oh I’m so happy you know about them now!! I love them.

This react got you a new sub! I love your insights! More Wardruna please!

Hypnotic and all-encompassing!! ...and fun trivia on accent origins!

Great video about one of my favorite songs and styles of music!

I'am so pleased that our campaign to get this song played succeed! 👌 Thank you Beth! 👏👍

You should call your site, Beth Overreacts. There is SOOO much going through your head so fast you struggle to get it out fast enough. Thanks, I really enjoy you.

Love the unique sound of this sort of music, and this group in particular. It’s raw, organic, archaic, though not quite primal, and very much of the earth while maintaining this slight flavour of a world beyond. It’s what I listen to when I run, workout, or even when I wish to sleep. @BethRoars, she, unlike other reviewers, really digs into the meat and potatoes of the music, not just the vocals, which makes for a much more thoroughly analytical examination than most. I don’t know very much about singing being a humble bagpiper that sings only in the shower or when having consumed copious amounts of alcohol in pubs but I do know analysis and I love that element of the channel. Wonderful work from both the artists and the reviewer.

The rythm(asymetrical 3-bar) come from a dancing tratition called pols in Norway. As a fot note, the 3-bar showed up in scandinavia during the end of the medival peroid. People likely had just as mush fun with 2-bar before.

rarely i like vocal coach reactions, cause all they do they pause music and talk boring stuff no one cares, but you enjoy this, few comments and just embrace music... loved it

I’m going to be travelling to Finland to see Wardruna play at Savonlinna castle, this will be the second time I’ve seen them. I’m so excited

The theory about accents being related to the weather was very cool, subscribed!

II played this for my adult daughter and she did not really get it. I asked her to listen again but imagine lying in bed and the down beat of the drum is her heartbeat while the voices are coming through an open window. When the drum stopped, she gasped and then smiled, she got it.

I adore the original video. The two most interesting things I learned while watching this are 1. how the harmonies are being sung and, 2. how each instrument, including the voices, is finding its own layer. Now I know part of the reason I find the performance so piercing and moving to experience. Thank you!

What a time to be alive of Norse bands popping up left and right and existing bands finally getting the attention they deserve. Makes me really happy because I can’t get enough of it

I love this song!!

I was there :) the consert was Awesome... the filming does not give it the respect it deserves... i was almost in tears :)

If you ever have a chance to hear them live it's absolutely amazing and dare I say better than recordings!

This makes me so happy!

Thank you for your reaction on this breathtaking song! You underlined some things about the feel you get from some specific vocals: very interesting and revealing!

I think this sounds so bittersweet. There is so much emotion. People have mentioned that the song evokes spiritual feelings. I think it sounds like the people are mourning.

Another MORE AURORA comment!!! You said you also like her, so why not react to her even more? :)

I realy Love this reaction!!!! More Aurora Please!!!!

More funereal than war-like. If I recall correctly, this is a song of passing away to the Otherworld. Great video! Could you please react some Rosalía? Anything from her experimental (and conceptual) album "El Mal Querer" (Malamente, Bagdad, Di Mi Nombre...), or her more traditional take to Flamenco classics (Aunque Es de Noche is amazing). I would love to see your reaction to one of the few mainstream artists I follow, especially this Spanish woman we're so proud of.

I never listened to this type of music ,then my world turned upside down 19month ago when i lost my beautifull little girl 12yrs old ,since then this music from wardruna gives me a way to get lost in my mind .

Havent watched one of your videos in a while but when this one popped up and it said Aurora and Wardruna I nearly broke my keyboard clicking on it. I am an Aurora freak and I actually discovered her from her first video singing with this band at the Traena Music Festival so this comes full circle for me. Shes kind of moved beyond this dark Nordic folky stuff with her latest albums but Im a sucker for her no matter where she goes artistically. And Wardruna is excellent as well. I would highly suggest Daichin Tana and her band HAYA if you like this.

You nailed this thanks!

Very educational, thank you! This music take me to another time.

I'm not familiar with the band but I love Aurora !! She sings with such emotion.

Im Chiricahua Apache out of Utah now living in Georgia. Im from a family with boxing and kickboxing almost as a religion, Like most Apache families i know.But music has had its hold on me from an early age. Near broke my father in two when i decided to quit my training to join the highschool band lol. Einar Selvik's music is utter magic. I love how the smallest phrases can cause goose bumps, but then have no one around to relate to the feeling. This was the first time seeing one of your videos ,and it was great to see you talk about and explain some of these musical phrases i was talking about. Keep up the great work. Oh, and i love you accent. Your newest follower. Yah ta hey!

Einar Selvik is an outstanding artist! One of my absolute favorite musicians to listen to. Do more of his work please

This song almost makes me cry every time I hear it..you can just feel it

YES! You finally did this one :)

Im just a simple metal guy but this is by far the best reaction channel on youtube. Its easy to see that you know what you are talking about. Wish me luck on the Dream Theater concert in Oslo tomorrow in Oslo! :)

thanks for that little harmony lesson :) really appreciate that!

Wardruna are fantastic live. Glad you finally reviewed them.

This is one of the best live performances ever. Wardruna is amazing and I wish they would make Aurora a permanent member.

Lyrics from the original video: Norwegian-----------------------English translation Kven skal syngje meg--------------Who shall sing me i daudsvevna slyngje meg------------into the death-sleep sling me når eg på Helvegen går--------------When I walk on the Path of Death og dei spora eg trår er kalde, så kalde------and the tracks I tread are cold, so cold Eg songane søkte------------------I sought the songs Eg songane sende-----------------I sent the songs då den djupaste brunni-------------when the deepest well gav meg dråper så ramme-------------gave me the drops so touched av Valfaders pant------------------of Death-fathers wager Alt ei veit , Odin-------------------I know it all, Odin kar du gjømde ditt auge------------where you hid your eye Kven skal syngje meg-------------Who shall sing me i daudsvevna slynge meg------------into the death-sleep sling me når eg på Helvegen går-------------When I walk on the Path of Death og dei spora eg trår er kalde, så kalde------and the tracks I tread are cold, so cold Årle ell i dagars hell-----------------early in the days end enn veit ravnen om eg fell------------still the raven knows if I fall Når du ved Helgrindi står ------------When you stand by the Gate of Death og når du laus deg må riva-----------And you have to tear free skal eg fylgje deg------------------I shall follow you over Gjallarbrui med min song----------across the Resounding Bridge with my song Du blir løyst frå banda som bind deg!------You will be free from the bonds that bind you! Du er løyst frå banda som batt deg!-------You are free from the bonds that bound that you! * Quote from Håvamål -- The High Ones Speech, Poetic Edda Døyr fe, døyr frender---------------Cattle die, kinsmen die Døyr sjølv det sama----------------You yourself will also die men ordet om deg aldreg døyr---------but the word about you will never die vinn du et gjetord gjevt---------------if you win a good reputation Døyr fe, døyr frender ----------------Cattle die, kinsmen die Døyr sjølv det sama----------------You yourself will also die Eg veit ein som aldreg døyr-----------I know one that never dies dom om daudan kvar---------------the reputation of those who died

OMG YES! will you also do Dead Can Dance?

Oh would you have loved the "Helvegen (Kalandra cover), aside being even more amazing then Aurora's voice, she twisted the way she sings the song making it even better then the original.

Here is the same song but this time it is song with a backdrop of a mountain. As good as the one you listened to, this one is so much more vibrant and fantastic.

It's so cool to see you commenting on this... Wardruna is amazing... I'm a percussionist and love drumming along with them...

Instant like because I just love this performance.

My favorite song ❤️ I feel your reaction, I really do 😍

Love you!! You are reacting a lot of things I voted