The roller coaster also has an element that should resemble a heart, a vertical descent with a twist, airtime hill and a heartline roll at the end of the ride.

If the familiar musical background was initially dispensed with in the first few days of this innovation, the park plays it back when driving on the lift hill and after the backward free fall in order to meet the visitors' wishes and therefore shortened the builder's monologue.

On further screens the visitors are informed by an actor that another part of the fortress has just been exposed and that a longer stay in Kärnan is unsafe due to the danger of collapse.

All parts of the waiting area are underlaid with sound effects such as chain rattling, sword fighting or the original soundtrack of the roller coaster.

A video is played in which the protagonist, who is already known from the queue, explores this room and discovers a "secret compartment" in a wall of books that turns out to be a luggage rack for the passengers.

In the video, visitors are again asked to put down all loose objects, which the roller coaster operator expressly points out for the last time before the ride.

During the beginning of his reign, his father's vogelfrei murderers still roamed the coasts of Denmark, which frightened the people, but Eric did not care.

We swear it, by all holy men.As a result, the master builder of the courtyard was given an impossible task: to build an impregnable fortress.

With this task he temporarily withdrew to his studio and created a blueprint for a fortress with a mighty outer enceinte, a moat, a drawbridge, numerous defense systems and the most powerful keep in the world, the Kärnan.

The interior consisted of a splendid reception hall, a few private suites, warehouses and a deep well to provide access to drinking water in the event of a siege.

The builder also constructed a system of secret passages in the walls of the fortress and a sophisticated escape plan for the royal family.

Immediately after Eric sifted through the construction plans, he gave the order to build the Kärnan, which made his dream of being invincible come within reach.

He hurried into his archives and looked in the ancient writings of his predecessors for a magic formula with which he could protect the tower, punish the king for his cruelty and keep him away from the people.

Eric froze at this and inquired whether he had not publicly sworn and ordered the builder under threat of death penalty to build a tower that would be absolutely invincible for all eternity.

The builder affirmed, said the Kärnan was safer than any other fortress and confessed that he dared not mention anything like the protective spell in the presence of the king.

The spirit of the king was banished forever in the Kärnan and could only be freed by an act of kindness, which Eric Menved had never performed during his lifetime.

[1] The theme of the roller coaster is based on the story of King Eric Menved, who had the medieval Kärnan tower built as an inaccessible fortress and, according to legend, covered it with a protective spell.

A statue of King Eric Menved, the builder of the real Kärnan in Helsingborg, was erected here in the same year and unveiled on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Hansa-Park.

The symphonic soundtrack Der Sound des KÄRNAN for the roller coaster was produced by IMAscore and recorded in Hungary with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and Choir.

The texts of the individual songs are sung in German and refer to the background story of Kärnan around King Eric of Denmark.

[12][13] Some visitors criticize the long waiting time, which can be attributed to the low capacity due to the backward free fall.