In an interview with Rob Hughes for "Unrestrained Magazine" in 2007, Kristoffer Rygg reflected, "We were influenced by a period known as the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway (1536—1814) — the language and literature of that era combined with the superstition and folklore of the Middle Ages. It was the kind of stuff we were learning about in school at the time. When it comes to music, we were already listening to a whole slew of other things, and already had our two next records in mind, so by the time "Nattens madrigal" (1997) was released, we had developed a strong urge to explore something else. We had also acquired the knowledge of how to do so in the meantime."