01. Born in Winter – Blood of Mine | Viking Saga Lyric Video

A winter storm, a fjord turned black with ice, and wolves singing by the fire. Ulfar is born screaming and red, and his father lifts him to the thunder and swears to Odin that this one will not die. The old seer casts the runes and sees a wolf, a fight, a hall, a shield and a woman who will not yield. — LYRICS — The year the fjord turned black with ice, The year the gods demanded a price, My mother screamed through the longest night While the wolves sang loud by the fire's light. No prayer could calm that howling storm, But I came screaming, red and warm. My father raised me to the sky And swore to Odin: this one won't die. Snow on the roof! (Hey!) Blood on the stone! (Hey!) Born in the dark! (Hey!) But never alone! Born in winter, born in flame, Thunder spoke and gave my name! Ulfar, Ulfar, wolf of the North, Out of the storm I was carried forth! Born in winter, iron and bone, The cold was my cradle, the wild my home! The wild my home! This little child born in the frost Is one the gods have marked or lost. The old seer cast the runes that night, She saw a wolf, she saw a fight. She saw a hall, she saw a shield, She saw a woman who would not yield. She saw the fire, she saw the end, She saw the hall where heroes ascend. Snow on the roof! (Hey!) Blood on the stone! (Hey!) Born in the dark! (Hey!) But never alone! Born in winter, born in flame, Thunder spoke and gave my name! Ulfar, Ulfar, wolf of the North, Out of the storm I was carried forth! Born in winter, iron and bone, The cold was my cradle, the wild my home! Runes in the snow! (Hey!) Fate on the wind! (Hey!) What the Norns have woven (Hey!) No hand can unspin! Born in winter, born in flame, Thunder spoke and gave my name! Ulfar, Ulfar, wolf of the North, Out of the storm I was carried forth! Born in winter, iron and bone, The cold was my cradle, the wild my home! And the wolves still howl when the winter's near... They remember the night I came here. — ⚔️ How this video was made Every frame was drawn by code. No filmed footage, no stock clips, no AI image or video generator. 🎵 Music: made with Suno. 🎬 Video: a small web page paints each frame, driven by the song itself: • the vocals are separated (Demucs) and every word is timed to the voice; • drum hits drive the camera shake, the sparks and the sword clashes; • the singers' lips move with the words (Rhubarb Lip Sync); • the characters are 2D puppets with a skeleton. Feet stay planted, they breathe, and every blow lands on the beat. 📖 This is one chapter of a 30-song Viking saga about Ulfar, Sigrun, their son Hakon and Hrafn of the raven mask. 🛠️ The story, songs and direction are mine. The code and scenes were written with Claude Code (Anthropic's AI coding assistant). Everything else is free and open source: Demucs, wav2vec2, Rhubarb, Playwright + Chromium, ffmpeg, HTML canvas. Recipe: song → split vocals → time the words → find the drums → storyboard → draw every frame with code → render on the GPU. Made something with it? Tell me in the comments! 👇