Myrkvir is an old Scandinavian name meaning "dark-woods" (Myrkwood) and it's the name of several old dark forests;

mythological as spiritual and earthly forests. The reason of the name Myrkvir was to portray deep, dark and desolate backwoods and wilderness which constituted a borderland between different realms - a very strong symbolism in all kind of spiritual practice. The dark woods were the hars h domains where the murderers, plunderers, misanthropes, lawless and damned ones lived uncovered among wild animals, beasts, phantoms and other strange phenomen on. What mankind fear and abhor so to speak. They also constitute a border to th e spiritual realms of untamed and evil powers. It's the place we enter to bring antagonistic impulses and dark inspiration to our artistic expressions and music al creations. In the old legends Myrkvir was mainly used to describe the great eastern areas be tween the Germanic and the Hunnic realms (certainly the woods and mountains of t he great Carpathians). The name was also used to describe the borderlands betwee n the cosmic world and the world of the Thurses. In the battle of Ragnarok the s ons of Muspell rides from the south through Myrkvir and attack the guardians of c osmos at Vgrr. Myrkvir can also be interpreted as Jrnvir, the eastern woods where Angrbodha and he r kin of hostile fiends, witches, werewolves and beasts live. It's a cold, murky and dreadful place of great destructive forces and evil sorcery the realm of th e damned (Domgrd). In other words, the "dark woods" referred to the frontier and mysterious outlands of what was known to our ancestors. The symbolic essence of Myrkvir is therefore the dangerous, untouched and secret domains beyond human cul ture and societies and far beyond the safety and structure of ordinary life - a threshold to other worlds, to the unknown...