Blood on Ice

“The Lake” talks about the lake where Odin threw one of his eyes. It’s a deep lake in which all the knowledge of the world, old and new, is stored. The old man casts his left eye into the lake to give him his powers of wisdom and foresight, and the central character casts both his eyes into the lake, which not only means he gains all its powers of knowledge and vision but also that he will not have to stare down the Beast during his final battle. Read more on Last.fm.

Bathory was a Swedish black metal band formed in Vällingby in 1983 and named after the infamous Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory. The band's frontman and main songwriter was Quorthon (Tomas Forsberg). Bathory's first four albums were the blueprint for Scandinavian black metal. The band departed from this style on their fifth album, Hammerheart (1990), which is often cited as the first Viking metal album. Bathory continued in the Viking metal style throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, although the band returned to thrash metal with the albums Requiem (1994) and Octagon (1995). Bathory ended when Quorthon died from heart failure in 2004. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.