 Ideologically , the one @-@ man project Burzum by Varg Vikernes helped inspire the Viking metal scene through Vikernes ' strong racist , nationalistic , and anti @-@ Judeo @-@ Christian beliefs and longing to return to paganism . Trafford and Pluskowski opine that <unk> 's beliefs , which had culminated in the burning of several churches , including the twelfth @-@ century Fantoft Stave Church in Bergen , revealed the confused nature of ideas about Vikings in the Norwegian black metal scene . They note that " His tastes seem originally not for the unmediated medieval itself as for J. R. R. Tolkien : he adopted the name ' Count <unk> , ' based upon an orc in The Lord of the Rings , and named his band Burzum after a <unk> word for ' darkness . ' " They postulate that only in retrospect did Vikernes " cloak his actions in an <unk> garb and claim the motivation of an attempt to restore Norse paganism for his church burning . " While in prison , Vikernes released the book <unk> , which Trafford and Pluskowski call an echoing of the Hávamál , though with " an eye on Mein Kampf . " They further opine that " proving both that it is not just the early medieval past to which he looks for inspiration , and that he will use any historical weapon at his disposal to offend Norwegian liberal opinion , it is notable that he has recently added the name Quisling to his own , and is even attempting to claim some sort of kinship to the wartime collaborator . " Vikernes himself has connected the church burnings to an idea of resurgent Viking paganism . He stated that the first burning , that of Fantoft Church on June 6 , 1992 , was thought by many to be related to Satanism , since the burning occurred on the sixth day of the week , on day six of the sixth month and was thus a reference to the number of the beast . But Vikernes contends that the date June 6 was really picked because the first recorded Viking raid , that upon Lindesfarne , occurred , according to Vikernes , on June 6 , 793 . 
