Einherjer - The Ballad of the Swords

Across the moor
We Norsemen rode
& skalds to us sung
That days of glory
Soon should be
When swords bloodred were swung
"One-eyed father
Give us the strength
My brave kinsmen & I
In Valhalla I
Your mighty men will meet
If in this battle I die
From the sky
Your ravens watching me
Both of them I see
Thank you father
For letting me know
You watch over me"
At the moor
The ravens spoke to me
While skalds did their song
A bitter loss
Was soon to come
For those I were among

Across the moor
We Norsemen rode
& skalds to us sung
That days of glory
Soon should be
When swords bloodred were swung
I say to you I ask you to
For once be your own lord
Come with me
Be part of my
Ballad of the swords

A sudden clash
Where swords were drawn
Was the beginning of my end
With a norsemans pride
& courage I fought
I would to Hel them send
Instead I felt
Cold chilling steel
Stab me from behind
A cravens deed
Indeed it was
Peace he should not find
Faded I did
Strange beauty I met
The dream for me came true
Brought up I were
Bifrost I saw
My mortal life were through
Your mortal life
With children & wife
Wouldn't have no value
If you knew as I
About life up here
You would die to be here forever

Category:

Music

Tags:

• einherjer
• ballad
• of
• the
• swords
• viking
• metal

[lescastor]

@cunterkooter Christians, Pioneers of the:

-Spanish inquisition

-Crusades and sacking of Constantinople

-Slavery of the Mesoamerican peoples

-Colonization and destruction of foreign religions/languages

I could go on because, as far as I'm concerned, Christianity is the CAUSE of more problems than it "solves". Christianity defeats its own purpose in practice when you mix "love everyone" with "annihiliate the nonbelievers". There is no absolute truth, everything should be questioned

[nuclearblastowns]

Humm,Get with the times people, Christianity is with us, whether we like it or not now, but there's one other particular religion that will completely eradicate our folks heritage if it gets a foothold in our system, Islam.It will leave no reminiscence of our past what-so-ever. I don't know about you guys, but I'd prefer to hear the sound of church bells, than the call to Mecca nowadays.

[shithappens667]

@Pallanamnjavelet you telling me weak people turn to religion for power... if anything religion is the tool the powerful use to keep the weak in line. It wouldn't be a menace either if it wasn't corrupted and twisted into what it is today, representing everything wicked and foul. There is a reason the inquisition sought people who read the bible.. because they found out there is a huge difference between the message in the bible and the vatican

[01Cade]

@parasitic15 Ossian receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes By Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson

[Pallanamnjavelet]

@nuclearblastowns

Religion has and will always been a menace, doesnt mather if its cristianity, judism, islam or heathendom..

It is a way for weak men/women to get power that they dont deserve.

Religion has and will always be about just that.

So fuck religion alltogether, and just enjoy the music, thats my opinion.

[parasitic15]

Where's the artwork from?

[musicmode13100]

@nuclearblastowns I would rather hear neither, but that's just me being a sane, rational individualist.

[DaedricMetal]

I am a Christian and I love this band...so please, self-appointed masters of Paganism, kill me! Why there has to be on every Pagan-Viking-Whatever-metalvid­eo the same idiotic pseudo-religious discussion? Furchtbar...

[johnsnormen]

I am a proud viking born in stavoger Norway in 19-58. 12-3 best pickturs I have seen I will be macking a tatoo of one

[samotron1984]

@lescastor one of the wisest comments ever. I totally agree.