The music collections
Songs of remembrance. Moonlit rites.
Where silence becomes a song.
Three laments for the people and memories we carry.
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A farewell beneath the raven’s wing.
A sister’s farewell, carried on the wind.
A lament for the beloved beneath the stone.
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This shelf holds the quiet after the battle: Viking funeral songs, laments for the fallen, and the ritual chants of the old ways. Blót ceremonies under the moon, seiðr trances, mead hall farewells and the long walk of souls toward Valhalla, carried by slow drums, mournful tagelharpa and voices that sing grief the way the North sang it, mostly in Old Norse. These are songs for remembrance, meditation and the heavy, beautiful moments.
Each track links to its full page with lyrics, meaning and streaming links. Read every lament's Old Norse words and English translation in The Songbook of the North, or learn what the sources say about the halls of the dead in Valhalla and Fólkvangr.
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“Now do I see the earth anew rise all green from the waves again.”
Völuspá 59 · The Poetic Edda, Bellows translation
Laments and rites, in the order a funeral would sing them.
The clearest eyewitness account comes from Ibn Fadlan, an Arab envoy who watched a Norse ship funeral on the Volga around 921 and described singing and ritual performance around the pyre. Norse tradition also kept memorial poems composed to honour the dead. Our funeral songs reimagine those voices.
A blót was the central sacrifice ritual of Norse religion: offerings of animals, food or drink given to the gods, the elves or the ancestors to win their favour, often followed by a communal feast. Several songs on this shelf, like Blót við Tungl and Hjartablót, are built around that rite.
Listeners come to these laments for remembrance and mourning, for meditation and quiet focus, for tabletop sessions that need a heavy atmosphere, and for film edits about loss and honour. The slow drums and mournful tagelharpa are made for the moments that deserve weight.
Death waits beside the road while one warrior keeps walking in this 4:05 Old Norse reflection—with full lyrics, translation and Hávamál context.
After battle fury ends, one survivor carries memory home in this 3:27 Old Norse berserker lament—with lyrics, translation and sources.