The Vikings series has produced many iconic characters and moments, and it was also catchy musically: with its intro song. It doesn’t matter that the series already contained a Vikings error in the name, the title song embodies the world of the Vikings with its sounds. But not only them: Since the song was not originally written for the series, other renowned TV shows and films also used it.
If I Had a Heart: This is the Vikings theme song
The Vikings intro is a snippet from the song If I Had a Heart. The song was written by Swedish singer-songwriter Karin Dreijer, better known by her stage name FeverRay. The song appeared on her first solo album, also called Fever Ray. (She had previously sung in the duo The Knife with her brother Olof Deijer.) In December 2008 the track was released.
The Vikings intro with the song If I Had a Heart by Fever Ray:
Vikings – Opening Sequence (English) HD
You can purchase and listen to If I Had a Heart from popular music providers from Amazon Music * to Apple Music, YouTube and Spotify. To the inspiration for her darkly hypnotic song, Fever Ray explained in her biography Observation that young children never get enough be able. However, if you look at the lyrics, the statement can also be transferred well to the Viking era, and so the series Vikings put the song at the beginning of its 89 episodes about the Norse raiders from 2013.
These are the lyrics to the Vikings song If I Had a Heart
The historical series uses only one for its theme song from Fever Ray’s song shortened Vikings versionnamely the end of the second intro repeat and the first verse including the shortened vocal bridge (marked in bold here):
This will never end ’cause I want more.
More, give me more
give me more
This will never end ’cause I want more.
More, give me more
give me more
If I had a heart I could love you.
If I had a voice I would sing.
After the night when I wake up.
I’ll see what tomorrow brings.
Ah-ah, ah-ah
Ah-ah, ah-ah
Ah-ah, ah-ah
If I had a voice, I would sing.
Dangling feet from window frame
Will I ever ever reach the floor?
More, give me more, give me more.
Crushed and filled with all I found
Underneath and inside just to come around.
More, give me more, give me more.
Ah-ah, ah-ah
Ah-ah, ah-ah
Ah-ah, ah-ah
If I had a voice, I would sing.
You can listen to the Vikings song in full here:
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The key passages of the Vikings song If I Had a Heart are in the German translation as follows:
“This will never end because I always want more. More, give me more, give me more. If I had a heart I would sing. If I had a voice, I would sing. After the night when I wake up I’ll see what the new day brings. […] My feet are dangling from the window frame – will I ever reach the ground? […] Depressed and filled with everything I’ve found. Underneath and inside just to regain consciousness. More, give me more, give me more.”Beyond Vikings: Movies and TV shows that used If I Had a Heart
Its use in a wide variety of films and series shows how versatile the song If I Had a Heart can be used alongside Vikings:
12 shows that used If I Had a Heart (in chronological order of episodes released):
Breaking Bad – Season 4 Episode 3 (2011) – Accompanying Jesse’s life situation
Person of Interest – Season 1, Episode 15 (2012)
Misfits – Season 4, Episode 2 (2012)
The Following – Season 1, Episode 7 (2013)
The Originals – Season 1, Episode 11 (2014)
Longmire – Season 3, Episode 8 (2014)
Wentworth – Season 3, Episode 3 (2015)
Born to Kill – Season 1, Episode 3 (2017)
Black Sails (2014-2017)
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina – Season 1, Episode 6 (2018)
What/If – Season 1, Episode 1 (2019)
2 movies that used If I Had a Heart:
Vikings Soundtrack: More music and songs
While the title track If I Had a Heart is arguably Vikings’ best-known musical legacy, there is also a Vikings soundtrack* composed by Trevor Morris.
In addition, the old Norse song struck Mother Told Me (Þat mælti mín móðir) a few waves sung by Vikings character Harald (Peter Franzén) and his brother Halfdan (Jasper Pääkkönen) in Season 5, Episode 10.
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