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When the Vikings moved into U.S. Bank Stadium in 2016, they started a new tradition at home games, called the "Skol Chant". At various points during the game, Viking fans raise their hands and after two beats of a drum, they clap in time and yell, "Skol!" The drum beats increase in tempo until the applause is near-constant.
The Viking Thunder Clap or Viking Clap is a football chant, consisting of a loud shout and a clap in unison, which is then repeated initially several seconds later and gradually speeding up over time.
"Come Go with Me" is a song written by C. E. Quick (a.k.a. Clarence Quick), an original member (bass vocalist) of the American doo-wop vocal group the Del-Vikings. [1] The song was originally recorded by The Del-Vikings (lead singer Norman Wright) in 1956 but not released until July 1957 on the Luniverse LP Come Go with the Del Vikings.
The themes treated by Skáld in their albums are several. Their first album Vikings Chant focused mostly on some of the most famous elements of Norse mythology and religion, like the gods Odin and Freyja, Valhalla, or the ash tree Yggdrasil, with texts taken mainly from the Poetic Edda.
Stanzas from Völuspá are performed in songform in the Television series Vikings and used as battle chants. The 2012 atmospheric black metal album Umskiptar by Burzum takes lyrics from Völuspá. Various stanzas from Völuspá are used in the song “Twilight of the Gods” in the 2020 video game Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
Bersi Skáldtorfuson, in chains, composing poetry after he was captured by King Óláfr Haraldsson (illustration by Christian Krohg for an 1899 edition of Heimskringla). A skald, or skáld (Old Norse: ; Icelandic:, meaning "poet"), is one of the often named poets who composed skaldic poetry, one of the two kinds of Old Norse poetry in alliterative verse, the other being Eddic poetry.
He was instrumental in the building of U.S. Bank Stadium and the TCO Performance Center and implemented multiple gameday traditions, including the Skol chant, Gjallarhorn and Viktor the Viking.
In History Channel's drama series Vikings ("All His Angels"), the poem forms the basis for the final words of Ragnar Lothbrok, played by Travis Fimmel. Stanza 23 is read in old norse in the episode "The Best Laid Plans". French Nordic neofolk group SKÁLD performed extracts of the poem in their song Krákumál, featured in their 2019 album ...