Gjallarhorn
Album • 2005
This track is instrumental.
Night time fell black over Odin's great hall Mimir back crying by Hlidskjalf the stout "What kind of sorrow echoes over the bay?" The crows answered not, blank over Asgård sky Fear struck Huginn's eye and Odin stood still Down below the mighty fjords of sacred Norway Wading the waters across, hundreds of long ships One full winter they sailed under the white cross The old gods laid astray, hail the word of a new god Mead were no more brewed, and Odin stood still Nordheim Home of those who once were brave Nordheim Your heathen pride grieves in far off caves Nordheim Welcome the light of foreign cross The white god has come over Nordheim Wise once were the men, if they wise for us were For ropes of sand they seek other man to wind And break the oath toward the ancient gods Wiser than all those who once were brave Olav del Hellige cast his eye to the heavens Mismatching Thor's sight: and Odin stood still In Valland he was, northwards he sailed Barns he destroyed and peace he brought less The nobles who fell in the fight for the gods Had their wrecked by the rite of bloodørn Though on mark of Christianity, and Odin stood still Driven by bloodlust his folk he did crush To refuse it was death, to fare far out hope A while to the stock a while to the stone Town after town his men fell apart Come springtime Nordland had one god, and Odin stood still Rabid wolves they were like across the norther coast Troms og Finnmark fell by hit of a stake The last good men to the white doors did bow The blood stained banners roaring tall in the wind Till Hammerfest bent conquered alone and Odin did speak: "In the god's name, glorious Norway did well Since the fires of Muspell moulded its first stone Fast its legends unfold, thousands of wolves of the sea Much I have taught to the ears of brave men Mighty Fimbulwinter has come Yet the old golds stand proud, a new god live within"
Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025
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Europe shakes at the dawn of wolf time Winter has come, Englishmen kneel Hide by the shadows, four Norse men will strike... Battle will come, blood by the sword Two hundred black long ships cast death Rowing fiercely southwards... Bold in their armours, Vikings there roared "alone will stand what steel bites not" A glimpse of an eye, Lindisfarne fell down... Thousand heroes roared by the burg Banging swords with shields down rocky moats Countrymen were slain, shrieking women raped Bloodied axes hit pillars, looming siege over Paris... Like waves on a shore, hordes bent France the old King moaned by their throne and the rocks resounded Of steel meeting flesh... as mead was brewed in the east Already wolves were crowding the gentle flows of the Thames At the break of dawn they came and the legends goes on Englishmen they laughed over hairy Hunnish steeds Stronger was Loki's grin by the Norsemen side Ropes over poles pulling and the London Bridge is falling down... Years passing by the sharpening the heads of the spear Nations were created by the glory of snowy Danewirk Rowing onwards tearing western worlds apart Till each men knew fear of two hundred years of fury
Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025
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