The album established Andreas Ritter's literary interests with musical settings of Ludwig Uhland's "Gesang der Jünglinge" and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Erlkönig".

[1] The band's second album Windzeit was released in 2002 and includes poems by Hermann Hesse and Ricarda Huch.

It includes covers of songs by Sonne Hagal and Orplid and guest performances from the Ukrainian opera singer Andrey Kulinich, B'eirth of the band In Gowan Ring, Kim Larsen of Of the Wand & the Moon and Ian Read of Fire + Ice.

[3] At the time of its release, Ritter described it as possibly the final chapter in this style of nature poetry, and said that he might move into something more historical or start to set older classics to music.

[1] Forseti's music style is built around the acoustic guitar but also involves instruments such as accordion, cello, horn and flute.