Varg Qisling Larssøn Vikernes, born Kristian Vikernes on February 11, 1973, outside of Bergen, Norway, is a musician. Known by the pen name Count Grishnackh during the early days of black metal in Norway, Vikernes was the man behind the one-man music project Burzum, and later made a series of video blogs on his now defunct youtube channel, now subscribing to a Odalist ideology. In Norway, he is known by the nick-name "Greven" (Norwegian for "the Count").