Arise: From Ragnarök to Ginnungagap: The History of the Vikings, Volume III

Odin I am the son of Bor The Norns sung my fare Ravens beside me evermore In a world to be made But you who are you The Giants of Ice Ymir you think you rule Ten thousands won't suffice It's a war of thousand years Between courage and your fears It's a war an endless fight Between darkness and light It's a war of thousand years There is life and endless tears It's war where giants fall Gods shall stand tall Odin I am standing strong Amidst bloodshed's agony Vili and Ve hold our long Oh my brothers next to me Where is Ymir he must die Then his breed will be gone Fall upon him hear his cry This battle is won

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

From Ymir's flesh the earth was made And from his blood the seas Crags from his bones, trees from his hair His skull made the sky so free From his eyebrows the blessed gods Made Midgard for the sons of men And from his brains Storm-threatening clouds Midgard arise From the ashes of a thousand years of war The spark of life Touch the elm and the ash tree Deep within their core Mankind arise Take possesion of the land, sea and shore The Spark of Life The spark of life darkness is no more From Muspelsheim fire was taken To shine over Midgard Put in a chariot to be drawn Across the sky Sol the driver hunted day for day By Skoll the wolf So finally on Ragnarök The sun will die

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

Yggdrasil Ash tree of life Keep in balance The worlds as apart they strife Yggdrasil Rooted deep in Jotunheim In Nilfheim near Hyergelmir And in Gladsheim in Asgard Oh Asgard where Gods dwell As the ancient Sagas tell Bifrost cross may those who die Where valkyries fly Oh Asgard and Gladsheim Hope to see it in my time Passing Heimdall as I die Where Valkyries fly Walhalla Heroes who are gone Fight and drink each day anew Till Ragnarök may come Walhalla The Einherjars' home Reliving battle's glory The armies of Asgard

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Fly fly Hugin and Munin Thoughts and memories you have seen Ravens sit on my shoulders I must know what has been Gunghir made of Yggdrasil's own wood Show the world who I am Odin the father of gods Berserks die screaming my name Father of all the Gods Odin I am Slayer of giants of ice Odin I am Reaper of battlefields Odin I am Master of runes and war Odin I am I sit in my halla on Hlidskialf I can see the future and the end Ragnarök death of the Gods Where I'll make my final stand I strove to find future and knowledge When I drank from wisdom's spring One eye I gave to Mimir the guardian Sadness id the song left to sing

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

I know myself hanging there For nice icy nights Facing the endless darkness around me Wounded by my own spear On the wind cold tree I am Odin - Hallowed by my own rite A tree unknown the roots be sprouts Lets my life slowly fade From a bough of Yggdrasil I hung Committed to my fate Delivered to the fright Of endless ice and night I had to gaze into the misty world Of Niflheim - the dire nothern frost empire In my self chosen solitude Runes you will reveal In the dust of ancient times Remember my sacrifice When I hung for these nine nights Runes they were concealed In the dust of ancient times I died to be reborn When I suffered these nine nights When I begun to grow Evanescent by pain I sunk from the tree with a sigh The knowledge of the dead I learnt Cause only cruelty can forge And then word just followed word

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

Kvasir was killed And his blood turned into A mead giving wisdom to thee Sutton the giant He locked it away In Hnitbjork, he won't set it free Odin, for wisdom's sake Empty Odrornir to spit it all out Over Midgard as to make The song come alive, sung out loud Bolverk Bolverk Odin's trickery To lie with a giantess Three days in a row Bolverk Bolverk Giant snake and eagle To soar in the sky As wisdom you will glow In the middle of the mountain The mead guarded by Gunlod a giantess fair Odin she saw Disguised in a lie His manhood eager to dare Three days he did last And the mead he did drink Into an eagle he turned to fly The mead he did spit As to make Midgard think And the giantess he left to cry

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

The son of Odin the Godfather And Jord the Earthmother Was an unruly child Furious and wild Too strong to be tamed And yet too young to be sane Oh my son spoke Odin until you grow of age To control your temper and your rage You must live with the keepers of the lightning Who are used to power so frightening Oh father look at me what I've become My feet are lightning I am your son My voice thunder under brooding skies My hammer cracks skulls as giants die Oh Odin it's been long but I've come home My feet never touch Bifrost for I tread too strong I've come to claim my seat now in Gladsheim Bilskirnir shall be my palace the home of mine Mjolnir my hammer I hold it strong Defender of Asgard where I belong On my chariot the wildest storms I'll ride As thunder speaks and lightning strikes and Mjolnir hits I'll rule the night Thor - Giants hide the fear When they feel thy hammer near Falling from the sky Skulls cracked die Thor - Keep chaos hard at bay As with broken skulls they lay Their life at your feet Death doth greet Father I'm not afraid to meet my fate On Ragnarök the final stand dues to be paid Father by your side I'll proudly die On Ragnarök chaos prevails gods shall die Father Magni and Modi shall overlive My pride my sons live to give After death father there's life to come For in our sons father we will live on

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

These evil creatures must According to the Nornes Be dealt with now and quick handed So under Odin's guide Angrboda seek at night And leave her bound and undefended Hel become the queen In Nilfheim recieve esteem By those who die Without honour in their lives Rotten as you are Away with you away so far Hel you nourish on Those dead and gone Extinguish the Evil, to save our lives The world will come down if Loki's breed survives Extinguish the Evil And Angraboda his wife The world will come down if Loki's breed survives Jormungard we throw Into the deepest sea Sinking down to live or die May the waters hide Her till Ragnarök And keep her out of our eye Fenris look at me A wolf like I've never seen I've always liked your kind Looks like you are first in line Can't send you away In Asgard's forest hunt for prey So I Odin speak May my word be recieved

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

Well you may call me evil Cause I stole Sif's hair But I went to Svartalfheim To settle the fate And you may claim Balder's death upon my soul But you know his light hurt my eyes And so his life I stole What would Odin be Without Gunghir I gave And to Thor I presented Mjölnir as a fave What would Asgard be Without the wall I had you biuld And Sleipnir born of my guilt Lord of Chaos Brother of wisdom The other side of good Lurking in your mind Lord of Chaos By evil kissed and Your other side The evil I will find Thor, when Mjölnir was stolen by Thrym Was it not me who took you to him And I saw you in disguise as a wife as a thief Until mighty Mjölnir you could retrieve And with Angraboda all right It was a hot and drunken night Never knew what she would bear But for my children I must care But how dare you bind me And not let death find me I swear I'll get you back on Ragnarök

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

When Skoll and Hati are on their prowl To devour the sun and the moon When all the stars will fall from the sky To let the earth shake in its doom Judgement day has come For all the life that walks the sun When Fenris is breaking Away from his chains Spitting his fire upon the ground The Midgard snake ashore Is flooding the earth With poison emblazing Sea and clime Made from the nails of finger and toe Of the dead, Naglfar sets afloat Summoned by the turmoil and riot around The sons of Muspell come crossing now

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

I see them marching On the quaking battleground Pale-faced fallen braves Arriving in with mighty sound In line with the Asir battled And prepared to fight The one and final battle To be fought on Odin's side After years of struggle Fimbulwinter had arrived To herald the downfall And the end of all times On the lands of Wigrid Hel's entourage to defy The Einherjars from Valhall All predestined here to die Heimdall blows his mighty horn A warning for the Gods Odin rides to Mimir's well To seek advice, at once All the Asir and the fallen Are storming gainst Hel's force Led by Odin in his armor With a helm of gold and horse And when Freyr falls By the blow of the flaming sword Ragnarök - Fire's hurling round the earth Ragnarök - Swallowing the whole wide world Ragnarök - The prediction is fulfilled Ragnarök - Many Gods have been killed The hellhound Garm and Tyr They both die in their raging fight Thor, he beats the Midgard snake Just to perish close aside Vidar lost his father Odin Now he seeks out for revenge Devourer Fenris has to yield Torn apart by Vidar's hands Heimdall - Loki, both lie slain Evil prevails in the end

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

Peace descending slowly On the fields of blood Eyes staring empty Life runs in the mud Skogul clad in mist To choose amidst the gore Those fallen heroes Whom Hel shall have nevermore To drink forever Valkyries serving Heidrun's mead To feast on Saehmnir's meat Daily risen from the dead To live a warrior's life Reckless and hard To walk, to live, to breathe, to die The honour of Asgard Come all you heroes The slain of battlefields Einherjars warriors Your fate long revealed Come sons of Odin Welcome in Valhall Einherjars heroes On Wigrid thou shalt fall To sit with Odin His guest and adopted son To live in Valhall Until Ragnarök may come To fight aside the Gods On Wigrid's fields of blood To die a second time Within the final blood On Wigrid thou shalt fall

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025