Four years had passed since Wardruna enchanted their listeners with their mesmerizing debut album gap var Ginnunga, which also was the first part of a planned trilogy. In the ensuing years, the group spent a lot of time on adapting their music to a live format and establishing a live band. This resulted in a handful of very special concerts, perhaps most notably when they performed in front of the majestic 1100-year-old Gokstad ship at the Viking Ship Museum in Norway. With the use of the oldest of Nordic instruments and poetic meters as well as lyrics written in Norwegian, Old Norse and Proto-Norse tongue, Wardruna, after nearly three years in the making, were finally ready to return with the second album in the Runaljod trilogy, entitled Yggdrasil.
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