“Hrafn’s Eyr” is a dark folk ballad inspired by the lost medieval port of Ravenser Odd, a once-thriving town swallowed by the sea during the Great Drowning of 1362. The title comes from the Old Norse origins connected to the region. Hrafn’s Eyr, later evolving into Ravenser Odd, meaning a raven’s tongue or point of land emerging from the sea. I wrote the lyrics to Dorian Mode of Scarborough Fair. The song follows the memory of a vanished land born from a Viking shipwreck, shaped by trade, greed, faith, and the unforgiving tide. The repeated refrain, “Endless nights, have left me there,” became the emotional anchor of the song, replacing (Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Tyme) mourning not only a drowned city, but the persistence of memory itself.more