The Valkyrie by Bart Zeal

This song is about a Valkyrie who comes down from Valhalla to persuade a berserker to come with her, after she had fallen in love with him while watching the battles he fought from the clouds. The only way to do so would be for him to fall in battle and leave his life behind.

It is a very special song that has an interesting story, all of which has really happened.

The song was written in the darkness of a late night inside an iron-age farm, next to the embers of a once-mighty fire. The embers were fuelled with laughter, stories, and music which were all shared around it from the moment that the sun had gone down.

As the Vikings left the warmth of the fire to sleep beneath their furs, I found myself alone and filled with inspiration. Playing a soft melodic tune that was fit to help my companions drift off to sleep rather than rouse them, I composed the melody that would later become this song.

Once home, with the memories still fresh in my mind, I started writing the lyrics. I continued to play the song and adjust the lyrics like a carpenter would plane a plank until it was exactly right. I invited Hannah to sing her parts as the voice of The Valkyrie and she did an amazing job.

Once the song was almost done. I gathered a group of Viking friends beneath the same moon as the one the song was written beneath and we sang the last chorus together. You can hear those voices in this recording, mixed wonderfully by Ruben Isarin.

To finish it all up, I sat for two good days practicing throat singing to finally give this song the end it deserved; a strong and satisfying wave of emotion and strength in the outro, before it all goes quiet and softly fades out.

Welcome! My name is Bart and I am a druidic songwriter of pagan folk music.

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