Konserten Harpa består av tradisjonelle islandske sanger med rot i middelalderen. Først kommer en sang om den hellige Thorlak som døde i 1198, deretter flere sanger basert på den islandske Sturlungasagaen og en sang om drømmen som spådde katastrofer. Til slutt synger Voces Thules en del av Hallvardstidir – Hallvardshymnen. 

Dette forklarer voces thules selv om konserten

Fyrst flutt fjögur lög!
Afkynning og kynning!

We started our performance with Innocentem te servavit, prose from Þorlákstíðir, The Office of St.Thorlak which relate the life of St. Þorlák Þórhallson, the national saint of Iceland.

The Office of St. Þorlákur is a long anthology which has not been performed in its entirety since the early days, when Voces Thules delivered them in the year 1998 in celebration of the octocentenary of St. Þorlákur‘s death.

What followed that was the piece Dreymdi mig einn draum í Nótt, or Draumurinn (The Dream).

Draumurinn was the upbeat to the song Þornar heimur og hrörnar. Both are taken from a piece which Voces Thules released on their cd Sé ek eld yfir þér which has as its subject the dreams and premonitions of Örygsstaðabardagi as they appear in Sturlunga Saga. There it is revealed that people had omens in their dreams relating the impending catastrophe. Old and new songs were adapted to this ancient poetry in the arrangement of Voces Thules and Arngeir Hauksson.

So also was the poem Ríðum allir rógstefnu til, which followed.

The next two songs are a continuation of the descriptions taken from the dream-chapter of Sturlunga Saga. 

We will perform Gríðr mun ég gumnum héðra, which is a mighty description of a battle and following that will be the terrifying dream-poem: Hverjir vöktum mér varman dreyra. That song is by our own Eggert Pálsson who is gifted with the ability to be able to associate himself with any period in his musical composition, and when composing he is wont to fall into a trance-like state.

Lokakynning:

After all the atrocities which have been portrayed in these poems we shift over to beauty and to blessings.  We will end on notes similar to those with which we began and will sing an ode devoted to a holy man. 

We shall deliver a portion of Hallvarðstíðir, the Office of St. Hallvarður Vébjarnsson. Hallvarður is the patron saint of the city of Oslo and the day on which he is celebrated is May the 15th. The millennium of his birth falls on this year.

We had ourselves intended to set sail with the spring and sing in honour of St. Hallvarður and to the delight of the capital of Norway.

 But it was not to be! No ship arrived with the spring to ferry us, under the circumstances. 

We bring you this piece from the Office of St. Hallvarður.