Varg Vikernes

Varg Qisling Larssøn Vikernes, born Kristian Larsson Vikernes, on February 11, 1973, outside of Bergen, Norway. Known by the nom de plume Count Grishnackh during the early days of black metal in Norway, Vikernes was the man behind the one-man music project Burzum, and later became a prominent voice for Neo-Nazi ideology. In Norway, he is known under the nick-name "Greven" (Norwegian for "the Count").

Vikernes' thoughts

Political affiliation

Vikarnes is formerly a member of the extremist group Hvit Arisk Motstand, — White Aryan Resistance, a group on the far right, and was also involved with the Norsk Hedensk Front, — Norwegian Heathen Front. For the later he is said to be the leader in 2001 http://www.antirasistisk-senter.no/infobank/hoyre_nor/nazirapp2001.PDF. In 1999 he is noted as a member only, although an prominent one http://www.antirasistisk-senter.no/infobanken/dokumenter/artikler/xt99.html. His ideas about Neo-nazism and fascism can be found in several small pamflets.

Related Topics:
Hvit Arisk Motstand - Norsk Hedensk Front - 2001 - 1999 - Neo-nazi - Fascism

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He helped create the Odalist movement and co-founded the All-Germanic Heathen Front, a subsiduary of Norwegian Heathen Front. Whether he was a member or a leader of this organization, and therefore if he associates or not with the organisation, depends on whether this organization is independent from the Norwegian one.

Related Topics:
Odalist - Heathen

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He is also responsible for formation of Svensk Hednisk Front, — Swedish Heathen Front http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2000-1/sweden.htm, and he is one of the key organizers of the National Socialist Black Metal music.

Related Topics:
Svensk Hednisk Front - National Socialist Black Metal

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Ásatrú

Vikernes is proponent of the Ásatrú religion and believes it is a religion for all Germanic peoples. Vikernes is the author of several short works on his personal weltanschauung, namely Vargsmål (lit. 'the speech of Varg'), Irminsûl and Germansk Mytologi og Verdensanskuelse. Vikernes interprets the old Germanic lore in a fascistic way and belongs to the leading heads of modern esoteric fascism.

Related Topics:
Ásatrú - Germanic peoples - Weltanschauung - Germanic - Fascistic

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Anti-Christianity

Vikernes has written lyrics for several songs by the band Darkthrone (Quintessence, As Flittermice as Satan's Spies, etc.) that make use of characteristics from old Germanic folklore. In these, Satan is brought up in the context of an 'eye' that is a source of light (i.e. the sun), with mentions of a 'spear' and a 'hall of battle', all of which are masked references to the Germanic god Odin. This was done with the double meaning of Odin as the 'adversary' of Jewish and Christian tradition. This has been taken as proof that Vikernes was at one time a Satanist, though Vikernes has stated many times that he is opposed to Satanism as he considers it to be a reactionary form of Christianity.

Related Topics:
Darkthrone - Germanic folklore - Satan - Sun - Odin - Jewish - Christian - Satanist - Satanism

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Vikernes has been fascinated with the fictional realm of Mordor from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Trilogy from a very young age, claiming to have mastered the Black Speech from which he took the term Burzum. According to Vikernes, the Christianized perspective of Germanic-sourced myths used in the books to create the Black Speech inspired Tolkien to give the word burz the meaning of 'darkness', whereas the old Germanic term bertz meant 'bright', 'light', or 'brilliant' in pre-Christian times.

Related Topics:
Mordor - J.R.R. Tolkien's - The Lord of the Rings - Black Speech - Christianized - Germanic

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The end of Burzum

In 2000, Vikernes terminated his musical project (which he had continued from his prison cell) due to what he perceived to be negative notoriety. Vikernes believed that his philosophy was constantly misinterpreted by an ignorant fan base that was too closely related to black metal and Satanism. By this time, Vikernes had released two ambient albums, having abandoned the black metal 'scene' years previous. Varg intends to continue Burzum if he is released on probation in April 2006, which he thinks is unlikely. The new Burzum, Vikernes claims, will be a continuation of pre-prison Burzum, specifically the "Filosofem" album. Though he has distanced himself from black metal, and looks down upon the culture, he claims this is the only music he is able to create.

Related Topics:
2000 - Black metal - Satanism - Ambient

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