Helvegen (Wardruna) An Orchestral Adaptation produced and arranged by Marco Vernacchia

Helvegen (Orchestral version adaptation) Produced and arranged by Marco Vernacchia No copyright infringement intended. All credits go to Wardruna and Einar Selvik . Helvegen, original piece by Wardruna A song to the memory of those who fade quietly, without a trace. “Who shall sing me and swaddle me in the Death-sleep?“ In the Norse cosmology, Hel, daughter of Loki, is the goddess of Niflheim, the realm of the underworld. There, she awaits those who die of sickness or old age in a hall called Elijudnir. Do not expect a feast at your arrival nor a lively hearth to warm your bones. Hel’s realm is cold and dreary. Her table is called Hunger and her knife, Starvation. Her world is a shadow realm of our own, filled with pain and struggle for food and warmth. Helvegen (Hel, the goddess, and vegen, ways to, or paths leading to) is a heartfelt song which describes the fate most of us will meet. Helvegen commemorates the forgotten ones and the nameless who, generations after generations, fade into no