Turisas - A Portage To The Unknown

Artist: Turisas
Album: Varangian Way
Year: 2007
Genre: Epic Metal

Lyrics:

We've sailed across the sea
Rowed for miles and miles upstream
Passed by Aldeigjuborg
Seen Lake Ilmen gleam
Ingvar took the lead
After Holmgard as agreed
What the end of Lovat meant
Was soon to be seen

Dripping with sweat a new day dawn on
The ropes cut flesh, as they've done in times foregone
I see my breath, my hands are going numb
Far from home we have come

An endless trail in front my eyes
A swift take off, had no time for goodbyes
What will we find and what was left behind
There's no return, get it off your mind

The water's changed to sand
Lakes and rivers turned to land
Plough up the rocky seas
Ride felled down trees
Foot by foot we edge
Once a ship, now a sled

Six regular edges and six vertices
Six equilateral triangles
Six square faces in another direction
Plato's earth transparent

Give me all you have!
Pull as hard as you can
Plough up the rocky seas
Ride felled down trees
The water's changed to sand
Lakes and rivers turned to land

The rug has been pulled from under my feet
All my life made of lies and deceit
All I have left is a symbol on my chest
My only lead on my desperate quest

Branded at birth with the sign of Perun
East of the sun and West of the moon
The road now continues, Northwind be my guide
Wherever I'm going, the Gods are on my side

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Turisas
• Portage
• To
• The
• Unknown
• Varangian
• Way
• 2007
• Metal
• Lyrics
• Vikings

[Noiprox]

All sons and daughters of the vikings are rightly proud of their heritage.

Fellow descendants, keep the flame alive. May the Viking legacy echo through the ages forever more!

Oh and ... AWESOME METAL!

[Cretaal]

A sailing nord, is there anything more powerful, beautiful and epic than that. I don't think so

[Cretaal]

@WoodPostable exactly, hence the portage, ships must be hauled over the portage as a sled "once a ship now a sled", but even if its just hauling a ship over a portage, it is to set sail once more, it just sounds like an epic one would sing as they sailed and rowed. I cant quite explain it, when i think of a nord on adventure, i think of him sailing.

[blastoffintoinfinity]

knee shot takes an expert marksman...

[WoodPostable]

@TheCrazyCello It's heavily implied that the albums protagonist's father was a Slav, as he references a Norwegian folktale where a woman uses the Northwind to find her husband. "East of The Sun and West of The Moon" is the name of the folktale.

[WoodPostable]

@aurielMoon Lovat is a river that feeds lake Ilmen.

[WoodPostable]

@Cretaal But Hakon The Bastard is Half Slav, that's what their talking about with the sign of Perun. And they're not even sailing in this song, they're pulling ships overland.

[Cretaal]

@UberepicQuel Shooting arrows off at people at a viking reenactment..... i'm baffled that he didnt catch an axe to the head...

[jaksi7c8]

@SirKazadilla They would both win.

[SirKazadilla]

i just had an awesome thought, Turisas vs Alestorm :~O

[UberepicQuel]

@Kag3maru Maybe a descended of one, but I usually like to join historical reenactments from time to time, during one time, some dude took sharp arrows and shot me and some other people to the knee...He was fined, not to sure if jailed though. :/