Vikernes's Explosives and Firearms Plan

Vikernes's Explosives and Firearms Plan emerges from Varg Vikernes's retrospective description of his arrest: police found 150 kilograms of dynamite, while he was awaiting delivery of machine pistols. He later portrayed the cache as part of a situation that might have ended disastrously, but the account gives no specific target or operational plan.

The Weapons and Their Circumstances

In a prison interview, Vikernes was asked whether his worldview would have been different if he had not been locked up. He answered by recalling what police found when they caught him: 150 kilograms of dynamite. He was also waiting for machine pistols to be delivered. These are the concrete details the account supplies; it does not explain where the weapons were to be sent, how they were to be used, or against whom.

Vikernes's Retrospective Assessment

Vikernes linked the arrest to his own survival, saying he thought he would have been dead if the police had not caught him. He added that, given the explosives and anticipated firearms delivery, he supposed the situation would have gone awry. This is his later assessment, not a documented account of a specific planned attack or its intended outcome. The distinction matters: the interview establishes the scale of the materials and Vikernes's expectation of danger, but leaves the plan's purpose unstated.

Imprisonment and the Limits of the Record

The account places these remarks within Vikernes's imprisonment and his reflection on what might have happened outside it. At the time, his release date was given conditionally as August 22, 2005, or 2007, depending on how prison authorities calculated the remainder of his sentence. He said he had taken the lengthy sentence well, comparing his isolation to that of a monk or hermit who could concentrate on work and study. The passage thus presents confinement both as a constraint and, in Vikernes's own retrospective framing, as a point that may have prevented a catastrophe. It does not establish that the weapons cache itself determined his sentence.