Hertan is the proto-Scandinavian word for Heart and that is what we explore in this song and film. The duality of the heart with the rhythm, flow and pulse we can see, hear and feel in nature and in all forms of life - and the more abstract idea of the heart, The rudder on the ship of emotions, our decisions, and our true desires. Once again, we teamed up with Finnish director and photographer Tuukka Koski for the video production of Hertan. Koski has previously directed Wardruna´s videos for Raido, Voluspá, and Grá. This time, the production mainly took place during some freezing nights in northern Finland at the island of Hailouto. Einar comments: It is always a true pleasure to create art with Tuukka as well as his colleagues at Breakfast Helsinki! His experience and eye for detail as well as the ability to always conjure up next-level material, is very inspiring to be part of. Three days, three locations, no sleep but a lot of heart. This is how it went down. Hope you will enjoy the result!

@SarenthDricten

Ай бұрын

Absolutely beautiful and powerful. Thank you for sharing your work.

@ntsHR

Ай бұрын

Very nice

@MlleFadinha111

Ай бұрын

A wonderful work... thanks for this gift. Congratulations

@ECTOERICSARCADE

Ай бұрын

Modern day masterpiece, very much like Mozart and Wagner...

@TrinityBloodFan02

Ай бұрын

Stunning 😍

This is the kind of music I listen to with my eyes closed. When my heart calms and my breathing slows, i open my eyes and my world has changed.

@itsjustme9354

Ай бұрын

Aw yes!

@Morbid_God

Ай бұрын

It's an experience

@Bl0ckfett

Ай бұрын

yep, lust like with weed

@Morbid_God

Ай бұрын

@@Bl0ckfett the experience of Wardruna with weed is so much better!

@alexanderricardojimenez138

Ай бұрын

😮

With other bands you listen to music... With Wardruna you go on a spiritual journey...

Always liked how Einar captures the inseparability of a human being and nature. This is what we all do anyway, melt with the ice in spring and hiberate with the bears in winter. Same natural cycles, same heart. This song reflects the core of animism.

@JesusGarciaNailed

Ай бұрын

Nope, nobody in the civilized world hibernates. We are awake and write bs on KZread.

@bronwynfloyd8252

Ай бұрын

So very well said!

This is going to be another spiritual experience...

@nocaption5562

Ай бұрын

I got goosebumps by just looking at the youtube homepage

@Styl_Ianos_

Ай бұрын

Always is

@brunotakeda2875

Ай бұрын

Another spiritual experience, perfect ❤❤😮

@AZ-yv8fp

Ай бұрын

always

@based344

Ай бұрын

my body is ready

We Rise from the darkness brothers and sisters. Bless you all. Skaal!

@edwardbernays1337

Ай бұрын

Bless you Brother! ✊

@helvete42

Ай бұрын

Youre not my brother

@Grodstark

Ай бұрын

Skål

@tikaykhan

Ай бұрын

@@helvete42 One big family. Skål, brothers and sisters!

@Styl_Ianos_

Ай бұрын

@@helvete42 are you sure ? 🤔

Hertan is beautiful! Wow, on March 21 I played Helvegen in honor of my mom's passing, exactly 1 year prior, and wished for new Wardruna music! You see, I played Helvegen at her preparation for cremation. Mama was 89, of full Norwegian heritage, but sadly never got to visit her heartland. I braided my mom's long hair & cut her braids to keep with me. I braided my own long hair & cut them, placing into her hands to accompany her into the fire and afterlife. I placed Mama's lefse stick across her chest under her arms, as she provided me with bread and life. I surrounded her with flowers & covered her with beautiful lace her mother had made. A few years ago I played Helvegen for her and she loved it! Mama wasn't shy - she was pretty kickass & adventurous, she loved GOOD music! It was the perfect song for our final time together on this earth. My heart has been beating since I grew in her womb - it's my only connection to her now - Hertan opens my next chapter of life, Mama's gone but my heart beats on - I feel her with me. Thank you, from a half-Norwegian fan in the U.S.!❤🇳🇴

@singingsam40

Ай бұрын

Firstly, I'm so sorry for your loss. My mum passed away just over a year ago, and I still miss her. Grief is a process. Secondly, your description of the ritual preparation and dressing of your mum's remains is incredibly beautiful, and it honours her in a way that will have made her proud. I'm sure it brought you some comfort too. I wish you much love and healing on your grieving journey. ❤

@UnderTheGreydar

Ай бұрын

@@singingsam40 thank you 💛 I'm sorry you lost your mum, too. Sending you love and peace from the Pacific NW. Yes, I'm at peace knowing I gave Mama a send-off worthy of her true Viking heart. She was a tough cookie, brave and determined, and she raised me to be the same 🇳🇴❤

@user-bu7oz1lx4e

Ай бұрын

This is the most beautiful reflection I have read in a long time ❤ may she rest well and watch over you 🤍

@AEGIPAN101

Ай бұрын

I sang Helvegen to my best friend and spirit companion right before he passed away in my arms. That song will always be special to me

@trapoyuh5910

Ай бұрын

I am so sorry for your loss, but I wanted to say that your comment is so beautiful. I wish you all the best ❤

Can you feel it? Surely the gods are listening 🤗

You all were the reason I picked up my very first tagelharpa, the reason Aethyrien even exists today and one of the major tools I used when climbing out of a very dark place in my mind 10 years ago. The impact your music has had on so many people is beautiful. 🔥⚔🔥 EDIT: You never cease to amaze me with your sound. This is such a primal song. There is this incredible sense of anticipation throughout it. This is very well done. Thank you for this.

@dalesen

Ай бұрын

Wardruna led me from my old life to this new one. ❤ Skål!!!

@aethyrien

Ай бұрын

@@dalesen Yes! 😊🙏🏻🖤

@martinakwiatkowski9646

Ай бұрын

​@@phillipmcsorley7840Just have a look!

@herkunftmusic

Ай бұрын

I agree with this 1:1

@herkunftmusic

Ай бұрын

Someone here didn't understand that no one compares themselves to Wardruna. Just read.@@phillipmcsorley7840

I've listened and watched this over and over again today, and it feels like it awakened something in me. Listening to this song felt like going on a journey within, where all that exists is the darkness and the guiding voice of the heart. So powerful! So epic and so beautiful in every single way. And the visuals is just beyond this world. Thank you for this masterpiece that resonates so deeply with my soul 🩵

@torarnebjorn61

Ай бұрын

Yes, it's time to wake up. Sometimes, I wonder if there are "forces at play", that speaks to us through all this magnificent artists that gives us spiritual reminders through their art these days. Yourself, included :-) Only darkness can show us our strenght. It's time for us now to use that strenght and start climbing out of the gutter we find ourselves in. The light has already arrived. That's why we see so much dirt these days. It's like the snow along the road melting in the spring sun, revealing all the turds and dirt that was hidden in it. It's an apocalypse going on. "The old world is dying, and the new world is struggling to be born. Now, is the time of monsters". Stay safe, Jonna! There is a storm coming. Btw, love what you do!

@AZ-yv8fp

Ай бұрын

🩵🩵🩵

@Catwithfish111

Ай бұрын

♡

@cc-lm6nu

Ай бұрын

I felt the very same thing. Starting my day off by playing this again..

@marcocipiccia7868

Ай бұрын

Norway loved Thor not freyr! 😂

I had HERTAN on my headphones while watching the solar eclipse... In fact, I can say that it points to something much bigger than what is described. It's not just about being human. It's all about existence...

@vivianp5962

Ай бұрын

Awe !!!!! I totally should have done that. I had a very spiritual moment at the total eclipse. I knew I was missing something. Good for you 👍🏾

@hayatiakyuz

Ай бұрын

@@vivianp5962 You haven’t missed anything in this cycle where even the Ouroboros bites its own tail. I hope you catch it next time, my friend...

@ezequielcronswell8520

Ай бұрын

SAD

A hug from Brazil 🇧🇷 Long live Nordic culture

Reaches into the blood, into the heart, into the ancient past. This music goes far beyond amazing.

''That which costs you deeply, rewards you deeply.'' My hope in why we feel so deeply.

Einar, please don't stop...Your songs are a delight for the heart and soul. It's been 7 years since I first heard this unique style. Wardruna - you are the best!

Wardruna never disappoints. Always challenges its listeners to go deeper . . . and deeper we go. . . together.

As these early morning hours dawn, it happens to be my 50th birthday and I clicked just in time to see the premiere. To be hurtled into my new decade with this gift of a song feels like a small sliver of fate being kind in this moment. All day I've been asking where I go from here, how to give over my heart to what I need to be in what time I may have. This heart, this rider of will, where to go? So grateful for Warduna's music steering spirits toward greater things. This song is already on repeat and is magnificent.

@FarmerDrew

Ай бұрын

Skål and Gratulerer med dagen!

@rolsen1304

Ай бұрын

It's my 39th, happy birthday fellow child of Aries!

@Michelle-tb4rl

Ай бұрын

@@rolsen1304 Thank you, fellow one born under the sign of the ram; may you rage boldly in spirit in these days, horned elders and ancestors speaking to you through song and dream.

@Michelle-tb4rl

Ай бұрын

@@FarmerDrew Takk Fyrir!

@yosiwells8996

Ай бұрын

Feliz cumpleaños camarada!!vienvenido a la quinta de los 50!!😉

I think I've just needed that... Thanks, Wardruna family.

Money and wealth does NOT MATTER. Only the preservation of LIFE matters.

Going through a tough time of loss. This music came out right when I needed it most. It has helped me rise out of the darkness. Thank you Wardruna!

@jendubay3782

Ай бұрын

Nesso by Heilung is helpful to me during loss as well. Bright blessings friend

@marionbaumgarten277

29 күн бұрын

Feel the same..thank you Wardruna

Some days ago i was thinking.." mhh miss wardruna,they should bring a new Song or Album out.." here they are 😏😍

Every song by Wardruna is unique and good.

@AZ-yv8fp

Ай бұрын

agreed deeply

@DENISZV1

Ай бұрын

ну гавно всеже

@marcusholloway8013

Ай бұрын

@@DENISZV1 Да ладно. Хуйню мелишь.

What Eivar Selnik has done for the Germanic peoples of the world is priceless and I hope that one day he will be suitably honoured for this great gift. He has re-connected our people to it's soul by reminding us of it's sound.

One of the greatest pieces of music I've ever heard.

This is not a music video, this is a real Shamanic journey to the Heart ❤

The layering voices, Einar, the instruments and the music video....shivers down the spine. I love it 🫀🥀🫂

Definitely the first time a Wardruna song ever brought me to tears. This was healing. Thank you all so much.

часа полтора на повторе трек гонял а потом включил видео. и продолжаю кайфовать. благодарю Вардруну за этот кайф

Djupt er djupet Hjertet hamrar Djupt er djupet Hjerte slår Lik stein slår gneist Slår gneist til bringas Brisingeld Slår gneist til hjarta Til hug og blod Once again you will sing to us about the heart, how i can not wait to hear it. Wardruna, Tusen Tak!

3:18 These plunges into vocal harmonies are what keep me closely attuned to Einar’s compositional style, and keep our entire family listening to Wardruna (and seeing them at any opportunity in the U.S.). Thank you all for being the sun and soil to our growing seeds.

@AZ-yv8fp

Ай бұрын

I love those harmonies too

@AZ-yv8fp

Ай бұрын

i seriously just can’t stop listening to this. i’ve always loved wardruna but wow.

I have never experienced such deep, powerful, beautiful, and profound emotions. Your true, true heart connected me to God.

@teresaf4251

10 күн бұрын

That is so beautiful… to have something connect you to God is such a gift. Blessings to you on your journey❤

Eyes close and enjoy, your Head and your Heart do the rest . This is not Music, its art . I love it ! ❤

Amazing... tears ware coming out throughout the whole music...thank you Wardruna! Your music is art. Your music heals.

I cried from beggining to the end. I felt my heart thrashing and shaking throughout. Even if my rationality would try to dismiss it, Wardruna influences my philosophy, amidst seas of unwavering reasoning, objectivity and desire for knowledge. Jeg elsker deg, Einar, og Wardruna.

@CathHumes

Ай бұрын

You said it for me.

Amazing as always. What an atmosphere!

Wardruna is like life itself. There are many songs and artists that have made me tear up from my emotions reaching an intensity, but with wardruna it's not an emotion or a mental scenario caught up in romantic imaginative loops but it's my very body that is reacting with sustained goosebumps and a heightened sense of oneness and the aliveness that makes my heart beat.

A new musical masterpiece with a piece of soul from the performers, to the goosebumps!!!

This feels like a powerful invocation for the energy that we need to move through these times. I'm blown away by the energy of the song, and the video is incredible. So good to see all the band together. Thank you Wardruna!

No words are adequate to describe how this music makes me feel. It resonates to my soul. Thank you, Einar and Wardruna.

Once again, Wardruna speaks to the depths of my soul. Thank you for another beautiful spiritual experience through music.

Listening this song while I'm chopping wood in a swedish farm in the Jämtland with A LOT of snow!!!! 🇸🇪❤🥶🤠

Wow ,das hat mich tief in meiner Seele berührt. Mir laufen heiße Tränen einfach so herunter

Crazy...as always with your poetry, skill and power of sound you manage to move the soul!!! I saw you live in Milan... the best concert of my life. Thanks Wardruna

Wardruna made my spirit move, dance and cry... Thanks for your creations beyond music.

The visuals, sound design and overall execution of this is just a MASTERPIECE.

Your music never fails to awaken something in me. Your songwriting is poetry.

Keep this music coming. Best wishes to the entire Wardruna band and fans.

As an American Hispanic, I love this. Music transcends everything. Beautiful.

After half-dozing a dark winter it instantly gives power to raise again inspiring the heart and mind for the upcomming light days. Good (shamanic) instinct for the moment of time, same like when Lyfjaberg was released during strange times of the pandemic. Thank you!

My voice adds to all of the ones below: your music transcends language. It heals the soul and awakens the inner spirit. We are so fortunate and thankful for sharing this with us. ❤

I'm proud of my Scandinavian heritage and Einar for bringing out the best songs.

Einar, you together with your team once again made something wonderful. Thank you

Brought tears to my eyes such a powerful spiritual song the purging of the old releasing from my wounded body. In the darkness I find strength to keep going 🙏 ❤ New Zealand 🇳🇿

@torarnebjorn61

Ай бұрын

True. And without the darkness, you wouldn't even know you had the strenght. It's the purpose of darkness.

@itsjustme9354

Ай бұрын

​@@torarnebjorn61yes! I don't know how I've come this far I am depressed having a couple of sudden loses losing my 2 dogs of 13 years 5 days apart than my partner left me which I didn't see it coming I dived into alcoholism its been a few months I am still struggling with the loses but I no longer drink over it I'm 73 days clean and going through the emotions sober not easy but only way through is through.

@robhastings2102

Ай бұрын

Lift weights and drink ale and listen to this song to make body stronger method

Saw these legends in Cambridge, UK two years ago. I closed my eyes and was in the time of the Vikings.

Perfect art, perfect music, perfect poem. Thank you, Einar and Wardruna for this outstanding work!

a song that immediately reaches the heart 🖤

Good return of the legend! Greetings from Siberia, Russia.

Einmal Wadruna immer Wadruna. Wahnsinns Song. Danke Einar. Skål.

Hands down an absolute masterpiece

Bewitched.. I feel all voices vibrations.. Amazing

I am absolutely in love with this new song! What a hurricane of sounds! What a sensorial experience! And the aesthetics of the video?!?!! SUPERB! ABSOLUTELY SUPERB!

Great song thank you for sharing Scandinavian culture it impressive

That build up and crescendo were absolutely amazing!

This brought tears to my eyes! It's very emotional and existential in every sense, representing both the darkness and light of one's being, which literally translates the heart. Thank you Wardruna for another magnificent piece of art 🖤🖤

My musical medicine that moves my soul every time and awakens something even deeper within it.

wonderful! ❤May the flames of ancient traditions return, in the hearts of everyone around the world!

The Old ways

Zagnieżdża się w umyśle, skrada serce, porywa duszę! Rewelacyjne!

@Divix19

Ай бұрын

Pięknie ujęte

@Hope-cm8fb

Ай бұрын

tak, tak, tak🥹🍀💚 i jeszcze porywa ciało☺️

@endarkurtulus3515

Ай бұрын

Pozdravuju Poláky 🖤

@mim9111

Ай бұрын

Ubrałeś w słowa nasze myśli

@KNURKonesur

Ай бұрын

wspaniałe!

Wardruna = Amazing Aurora = Amazing ( Wishing they would work together again ) = Mind would be blown❤❤🎉🎉

@treehugger444

Ай бұрын

Where did you spot Aurora?

@WCFGreywolf

Ай бұрын

@@treehugger444 No, I was saying I wish they would work together again in the future. I edited my comment, So, There wouldn't be any confusion 👍

It's amazing how music touches your heart! A song from a different country with a different language can make you feel so much! Before I came to read the comments - I closed my eyes and enjoyed it! I shared the track with the friend who introduced me to Wardruna and said listen to this MASTERPIECE. And apparently what I felt was felt by many people in different parts of the world! Unbelievable I only have one word: INCREDIBLE! Your music has a lot of emotion, and the most impressive thing is that it transmits it to everyone who listens to it!

Wow….. It’s an honor listen this type of Art. Thank your for your talent , your energy, your passion, your heart. This proyect honestly It feels pure. 🐦‍⬛♾️🌪️🌙🌞

I am so excited for this! 😍

@lauraredwitch

Ай бұрын

woohoooo

Absolutley stunning , I had tears in my eyes and love in my heart, thank you guys, please come to Glasgow, WE LOVE YOU.

Your music brings me to places and times I've never been... Love your change from rock to folk. You guys have so much amazing history which you keep alive. Your are a national treasure!

Today is not that he had a bad day, but it is something inexplicable. On Thursday I turned 18 and I feel very happy...it is a very rare happiness at the same time. Almost 2 years ago I decided to be part of the animist spirituality of Asatru and something I am very sure of is that these melodies that Einar and his entire group...Wardruna give us are unique. I know perfectly well that with this comment I contribute almost nothing but, thank you Wardruna, thank you for also saving my life❤️

I love Wardruna so much. Always epic, deep and spiritual sound.

🎉🎉🎉 looking forward to dis good morning from the netherlands

Este es el tiempo y el espacio para escuchar nuestro corazón. (Saludos desde la tierra de Tenochtitlán 🇲🇽)

As usual, I fell in love with your music and lyrics. They got into my soul. "Like a seed, I find strength in the mould and in the murk." "That which costs you deeply, rewards you deeply."

I would pay to watch your musical creations at the cinema. Infinitely more interesting, cinematic and powerful. Wow talk about being invigorated. Thank you Wardruna. ❤

Once again your art leaves me speechless. I could only listen, fly and understand that the gods of the north are with you. I don't know if you are aware of what you contribute to everyone. In my modest case, I went from not believing in anything to following these northern paths and the path began with your music marking it. May the gods fill you with happiness. Thank you.

HERTAN ❤️‍🔥

Wow, Masterpiece I love Wardruna I Hail Norway

I Love it. ❤ Many greetings from Germany. Thanks 🎉

As a Norse Polytheist from Scotland I just love your music.

Being Irish and German I love this music 🎶 ❤

🥲 thank you

Few words can describe the immensity of emotions that this group produces, I was transported to an accumulation of energies. I hope to see you one day in Chile 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱. My respects and admiration for a majestic group, constellation of creation, greetings.👏👏👏👏👏👏👍.

@victormanuelalvaradomunoz8211

Ай бұрын

The gods heard, on Wednesday, October 9, Wardruna will perform in Chile, I couldn't be happier 👏👏👏👏😃😃😃😀😀😀🤭🤭🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱❤️❤️❤️❤️.

Another beautiful experience. Thank you so much ♥

Einar Selvik ladies and gentleman, our Odin!

Wardruna затрагивает самые глубинные пласты человеческого существа. Только добрые пожелания команде! Очень надеюсь когда-нибудь услышать эту магию звука вживую. Wardruna способна изменить человека навсегда.

@AZ-yv8fp

Ай бұрын

Wardruna has changed me

@nocaption5562

Ай бұрын

I've seen wardruna live twice and I can tell you it's just magic! You feel spiritual as ever and you leave with the exact same feeling, you also see all other wardruna fans and just feel like you made the right choices in life! I hope you one day see them live, they are as close as you can get to an ancient gathering. Edit: it also empowers and fulfills one's animistic path and spirituality as you can feel this certain feeling that is typically animistic. You stop looking at life like a book but instead look at it how you perceive it and you are in tune with nature and the cosmos.

@NataliaSol.

Ай бұрын

@@nocaption5562 Благодарю, что вы поделились своим опытом! Не сомневаюсь, что это так и есть. Я знаю, что Einar глубоко погружён в традицию, и его музыка отражает эту глубину. В этом величайшая ценность команды Wardruna. Я изучаю путь северных мистерий, это близко мне по духу. Да, я полностью согласна с вами.

@NataliaSol.

Ай бұрын

​@@AZ-yv8fpЗдорово!

What a masterpiece. This music you fell in love straight away, some music you just need to listen a few times and let it sink it in. But this one... oh this one...

Every Wardruna release is a soundtrack to my life.

This song sends chills through my entire being. The primal beauty of the video takes it to a whole new level. I lack the vernacular to fully express what this song stirs in my soul.

Wow, what an absolute masterpiece! Emotional, intense, and instantly one of my favorite Wardruna pieces.

Absolut Klasse 🎉👍

Wow,so beautiful, majestic and ritualistic! I wanna thank Einar and Wardruna, because i am alive thanks to them. If Wardruna didn't exist to help me with their music, probably i would have taken my life back in 2016-17. I love you Wardruna for being by my side,when i had no one else! You are my parents,my family,my soul❤️

@666sdkfz

Ай бұрын

Stay strong frendur ! Skål from Norway

@nakedsnake1703

Ай бұрын

@@666sdkfz Thank you so much for your kind words my friend! Skol from Greece!

Beautiful ❤

Pure emotion, beautiful song and video that conveys an emotional charge

Thanks wardruna for new beautiful song! This music needs to be protected and should live forever🌿