These are digital renderings, using Vienna Symphonic Library for orchestral sound samples.
During the very first stage of a lunar eclipse, a quiet & peaceful night in a tiny Norwegian hamlet is suddenly interrupted by an outbreak of commotion; the innkeeper, who is woken up by the loud screaming of his infant son who appears to be feverishly ill, rushes outside in a panic to cry out for help.
Guests are woken up, neighbors alerted, women rush to attend to the infant, but no-one really knows what to do. By lack of a village doctor, the old sage with a lifetime of knowledge is called in and he manages to calm the people down. As luck will have it, he says, there is a chance, and one chance only to help the infant survive.
Legend has it that only during a lunar eclipse the legendary Prince Vannetsgud can rise from the water and use his magical healing powers. To call him up, they will have to descend to the cove and beg the water-spirit to appear. Everyone at hand start rushing their way to the cove below down a treacherous path.
Hours before dusk sets in, with the moon still bright, the sage tells guests and villagers at the cove's edge, to burst into the ancient chant: the call for Vannetsgud's appearance. The water suddenly begins to whirl slowly but instead, it is the evil water creature Nykkjen who emerges, lashing out to the bystanders and threatening to drag them in to drown them.
Luckily he fails. And then, finally, and after a ceremonial dance as well, the deep waters start to churn slowly, then faster and faster. A vortex in reverse appears and with increasing speed lifts up the good spirit Vannetsgud and a violent wave crashes him down on the rocky shore. Barely able to stand up, he receives the song* in his honor. The lunar eclipse covers already half of the moon. - Will they be able to return to the Inn and bring Vannetsgud to the severly sick innkeeper's infant in time to cure him?
When they finally make it all the way up the treacherous path to the door of the Inn, the sage hails the safe return, however, the lunar eclipse reaches its peak while Vannetsgud is almost at the point of exhaustion.
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