MEGIN

MEGIN

The most personal track in the EYSTEIN catalog, and the one
the project was secretly always building toward.

In Old Norse, megin means might — but not the brute kind. It
is vital force, inherited strength, the inner power that
survives death and gets passed from a man to those who carry
his name. The song MEGIN is the story of how that force is
proven.

The setting is the Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern.
According to the Old Norse Skáldskaparmál and the saga
tradition that runs through Beowulf, two kings met on the
frozen lake — Aðils, of the Yngling line, and Áli, the rival
king from the north. The battle was won; the rival was killed;
the crown was taken. But Aðils' captain fell on the ice. The
victory came at the cost of the man who made it possible.

MEGIN tells the story from inside a recurring dream. The
king who survived sees the battle every night. He watches
his captain fall. And then he watches him rise — not in this
world, but in the next, where the dead still ride. In the
dream, the captain hunts the rival king through the underworld,
defeats him a second time, and delivers the crown up to his
lord. The king wakes holding it. The win came after. He won
it for me.

Built on heavy 808 sub bass, deep frame drum, hardanger fiddle
drone, and the cinematic gravity of imperial dread, MEGIN is
EYSTEIN's darkest and most ceremonial work. The Battle of the
Lake of Vänern was recorded in the sagas a thousand years ago.
This is its return.

The fallen still ride.