I also sometimes add plain pieces of poetry (ex. “Isøders Dronning”/”The Queen of the Vast Icelands” which will be on our next album “Frost”).

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Grutle: All our lyrics, and has always been written out of basic “Viking concept”. Manly they have sprung out of old Norse mythos, and then we develop them further with our own thoughts and points of view.
Ivar: Yep, that’s right. I also sometimes add plain pieces of poetry (ex. “Isøders Dronning”/”The Queen of the Vast Icelands” which will be on our next album “Frost”). This is more mood based stuff springing from my dark and sometimes melancholic moments. But the Viking concept is something that comes natural to us. We don’t give a shit about all this pretending that some bands deal with.
– Slayer Zine #10, 1994