''Odin's Raven Magic'' is a 2002 orchestral setting to the

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ic poem

Hrafnagaldr Óðins ''Hrafnagaldr Óðins'' (" Odin's raven-galdr") or ''Forspjallsljóð'' ("prelude poem") is an Icelandic poem in the style of the ''Poetic Edda''. It is preserved only in late paper manuscripts. In his influential 1867 edition of the ''Poetic Edd ...

. The composition was a collaboration by

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, Páll Guðmundsson and

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. It was premiered at the Barbican Centre in London on 21 April 2002 and then performed at the

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on 24 May 2002. Video of the production can be viewed in the documentary ''Screaming Masterpiece'' or ''Gargandi snilld'', by Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon. In October 2020, the band announced that a recording of ''Odin's Raven Magic'' would be released on December 4, 2020.

Track listing

Adapted from

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References

{{Sigur Rós Sigur Rós 2002 compositions Norse mythology in music Music based on poems