About
Jacob Hee Lund
Founder
Jacob is a drummer, percussionist, teacher, studio owner and founder of Thrymskapr. Based in his home land of Denmark, he has traveled around the world playing his music since 2010 and has over 16 albums released. Projects include Heilung, Virelai, Asynje and Auroq.
Jacob masters a wide spectrum within different rhythmic accompaniment. He has worked within many genres, like folktronica, early music, rock, metal, classical, jazz and folk. All the while, Jacob nurtured a great interest in the historical and folkloric background of instruments, sound and rhythms.
As a teacher, he has lead workshops for nearly a decade throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Sharing his lifelong passion with eager students of all ages and backgrounds, and helping them reach deep within to find their inner rhythmic force.
He strives to create a strong personal musical expression rooted in Nordic traditional music, and connect others across the world through the ancient universal power of the drum.
Jacqui Alberts
Founder
Jacqui is a tattooer and visual artist based in her hometown of Seattle, Washington. She specializes in historical Nordic and Celtic influenced ornamental design as well as illustrative art inspired by nature, folklore and history, under the title Wovnwyrm. She currently works from Moonlight Tattoo (Seattle, WA) and travels to work throughout the globe.
Jacqui is also a published illustrator and resident contributor to Hyldyr publishing house. She has illustrated for several of their publications including “The Little Book of Viking Age Symbols” and “Danish and Norwegian Rune Poems”(by Mathias Nordvig).
She is an artist and sponsor for Cascadian Midsummer festival as well as graphic artist for Northwest Terror Fest metal festival the past two years.
In addition, Jacqui is active in organizing and events, helping to facilitate workshops, ceremonies and gatherings particularly in the arts and pagan communities, pursuing in anyway her passion for creating connectivity through art, history and magic.
Mathias Nordvig
Teacher
Mathias Nordvig holds a PhD in Old Norse literature with focus on Old Norse mythology. He teaches subjects on Old Norse literature and culture, Nordic witchcraft and pre-Christian religion and Arctic cultures at the University of Colorado Boulder. His primary research interests are critical whiteness studies, the reception of Old Norse mythology in pop culture and music and Old Norse mythology as a land-based conceptual framework for life in the pre-Christian North.
Mathias has published books and articles since 2013. He recently published the book Ancestral North (2024) with Dr. Ross Hagen. He has also authored numerous publications with independent publishing house Hyldyr.
Mathias creates art and immersive spiritual experiences and he consults for authors and artists for various projects. He has worked with musicians such as Heilung, Wardruna, Eivor and consulted for authors writing fiction about the Viking Age.
He is currently working with Steve von Till of the band Neurosis on a multimedia performance of the Old Norse poem Voluspa. The project is called Voluspa: Visions of Kinship with the More than Human Cosmos and consists of a reading of the Old Norse poem layered with musical performance and educational commentary.
Ailloš
Teacher
Iŋgor Ántte Áilu Gaup, also known as Ailloš, is a renowned Sami musician, composer, actor and teacher. The Sami are the indigenous people of Sápmi, the lands extending across Central and Northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. Ailloš, born and raised in a reindeer herding family on the tundra of far Northern Norway, is a master of yoik – the ancient vocal tradition of the Sami people.
As a teenager in the 1970s, he formed the first Sami rock band, Ivnniiguin, which blends yoiking with rock and roll. Several years later, Ailloš and his bandmates helped form the internationally acclaimed Sami National Theater Beaivváš, Norway, where he has worked for almost four decades as an actor, yoiker, composer, playwright and translator.
Ailloš has acted in films, performed as a soloist and in collaboration with classical, jazz, and folk musicians, and composed music for radio and television. He is the recipient of prestigious awards acknowledging his outstanding contributions to Sami and Norwegian music. A gifted and joyful teacher, Ailloš offers yoik classes and workshops to students throughout the world.
1 on 1 classes with
Jacob Hee Lund of Heilung.
For a limited time, Jacob is offering 1 on 1 drumming classes. Learn more about drum crafting, playing or anything you might be curious about. This is your chance to learn directly from a recognized drummer and percussionist with over 16 album releases.
Would you like to learn more? Complete the form to inquire.
We would like to thank the photographers who have been on this journey with us.
Francesca Sarpola, Seattle @betwixt.path
Allan Larsen, Berlin @uncle_Allan_Photo
Adam Colwell, Alabama @pixelsoftheimagination
Taanawat Chotrviniran, Thailand @taanawat159