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!

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.

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 🩵

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.

Can you feel it? Surely the gods are listening 🤗

This is going to be another spiritual experience...

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.!❤🇳🇴

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

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

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

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...

A hug from Brazil 🇧🇷 Long live Nordic culture

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

Every song by Wardruna is unique and good.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

Amazing as always. What an atmosphere!

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

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.

Anyone else cry every time they hear this new song? Divine masculine Awakening codes...

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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 🇳🇿

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

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

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

Bewitched.. I feel all voices vibrations.. Amazing

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!

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

My sister told me: This song reminds me of you.. I proceed to listen to it... From the same darkness I come out, with a small light inside... That light expands, expands, expands, of will, of hope, of strength... Now I... I am a knight of light... I am like the lighthouse of Alexandria. Odin speaks to me in dreams, guides me on my path, teaches me to face the challenges of today's world. As my Iberian ancestors did... I will fight until I die.

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

I am so excited for this! 😍

Being Irish and German I love this music 🎶 ❤

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

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!

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

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. ❤

Wardruna is really the voice of the North. One cannot tame Nature, once we feel this unsettling dark beauty of impermanence.. so beautiful

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 🖤🖤

a song that immediately reaches the heart 🖤

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❤️

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!

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.

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

Einar Selvik ladies and gentleman, our Odin!

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

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❤️

I hear similarities to Mongolian throat singing and instruments. Amazing how different cultures adopt similar musical elements to each other sometimes. I love the primal elements of both.

Hands down an absolute masterpiece

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Great song thank you for sharing Scandinavian culture it impressive

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 Love it. ❤ Many greetings from Germany. Thanks 🎉

Every Wardruna release is a soundtrack to my life.

To the solar eclipse im ready

Beautiful! Beautiful!

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. ❤

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.👏👏👏👏👏👏👍.

That build up and crescendo were absolutely amazing!

Please come to the Iberian Península ❤ we share love for Odin too!

Another beautiful experience. Thank you so much ♥

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

ever since this was released I haven’t been able to sleep normally. This song is the bridge between a deeply animistic, sacred force and humanity, it is pure guidance. while listening to this, the whole body is aware and the mind’s self limitations vanish. thank you for your gift, this song’s lyrics couldn’t resonate more with my current state, the timing is divine 🤍

After listening to it many times there are some strings that remind me of Kvitravn. I'm the only one? Love Hertan, love Kvitravn, i love everything WARDRUNA♥️

Wardruna не перестает удивлять! Отличная работа! Люблю Вас

So Kraftvoll, soviel Gänsehaut ❤

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!

WARDRUNA brother, you are TRUE SHAMAN. I KNOW YOU FROM ANOTHER LIFE! Blessing for you music you keep your emotions about planet healings true to your core

Absolut Klasse 🎉👍

Отличная песня. Спасибо группе за творчество!

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

Pure art