Feeding Rollo Poison Mushrooms is pure magic."Heimta Thurs" ("Conjuring Frostgiants"), whenever the religion of the Norsemen enters its more disturbing elements, like the carving of the blood eagle.Ragnar Describes the Blood Eagle is as creepy as it sounds."Battle for Kattegat" is less wild and more controlled, but the fiddle leading the track really sells it and when the chanting kicks in, it turns triumphant.Hearing that chant and lament sung by a full choir is in a dimension of its own.
The music becomes more and more harrowing, until Rollo slaughters Arne One-Eye and the music regresses into a harrowing wail. The chanting sounds like the gods of war inciting the vikings to animalistic fury (the ritualistic nature of the music does not help). The music is absolutely furious, with Norse war-poems chanted over distorted strings and drums, horns and Norse fiddles. The result? "Battle of Brothers" is the perfect example: The mix of ancient and modern elevates the score into a sound of its own. In season 2, composer Trevor Morris realised how awesome Wardruna is an recruited Einar Selvik of Wardruna to provide additional music and authentic instruments that would have been used in the age of the vikings. In season 1, the soundtrack had its moments but was rather generic overall.The first of the show's very successful use of Wardruna/Einar Selvik. The lyrics are made up of Norse poems how wealth is the cause of war. There is hardly a better music choice than Fehu for a scene showing a Viking raid.
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