Acum 14 ani
7 ian. 2009
DARKWOODS MY BETROTHED
Heirs Of The Northstar
My Eyes Are Frozen
Rape us the time
You bring us this loving wave
Crosses they rose
On our once proud pagan land
Those words they spoke were like
Needles on my skin
And their blessings were like knives
Stabbed to my heart
I trusted thee
O heathen men of the north
To hail and fight
And to run them out
Those words they listened were like
Stabs into my back
The baptisms they had meant
That I had lost homeland
Cold winds now freeze my eyes
Now I flee
Out of this shame they caused
I spread my wings
To fly to realm of my own
My eyes are frozen for the icy tears
My soul sheds
For those betrayers that were not
Strong enough to faith
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One Son Of The Northstar
One endless cold night
Here I stand following
Thy dark spirit thy faint light
A path across my dreams
Take me far into the unknown fly
Over a desert a snowfield
and dancing woods
I storm the nocturnal sky
In the fiery chariots I ride
My dreams are like thy rays
I see them sink into the sands of time
and fade
My spirit is like thine
Shows only its nightside
Always strong and faithful
and never fails
These snowy woods, this frozen land
Here I stand waiting
For thee to come to show thy face
Over this land
Once heathen once proud
In the icestorms of the cold northern winter
In the snowy hills and dark woods
My heart is forged
And that ice will never melt
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Uller
Amongst the cold
Northern mountains
He travells
Wrapped in furs
And armed with a bow
He is the god of winter
Hear me Uller!
Ride by me
in the battles and cover me
With thy mighty shield
O god of winter
Born of the mother Sif
The stepson of Thor
In the cold winter lies his realm
To the vale of Ydalir
His footsteps lead
There he dwells
The god of winter
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From The Snowy Hillsides They Came
Via the paths of the four winds
Through the icy valleys and hills
They came led by two ravens
The messengers from the Hall of the Slain
Warriors of a thousand battles
Skalds of a thousnd stories and tales
Riding in a shadow
Which will lie over the christian fame
Hear the dark woods call
Swear for the ancient names
Odin, Thor, Valhalla
Written into the heathen flames
False beliefs fall
Hearts of steel begin to pound again
In my eyes I almost see
Dragon ships setting sails
Fathers, watch us ride
Through the northern storms and freezing winds
We are the horde
That came from the snowy sides of hills
Brothers up there we greet you
Just like you-we will never fail
Sisters, wait for the call
We will come when we hear the Odin`s hail
Via the paths of the four winds
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In A Silent Night
Sitting under a pine
The deep silence unbroken around
One dark lake
So plasid, so cold
Descended night
Throws shadows over water
Brown leaves fly
Autumn is turning into winter
What happens around me?
It has no meaning
I sleep in my woe
This is not my world
For my world lies
Beyond other`s reach
Shadows dancing-my throne
My dreams` winterland I behold
Through the gates of time unseen
In a silent night
Somewhere deep inside
In the darkest woods
In the darkest nights
Lies my ancient realm
Where are still places
For me to find
Shadows dancing-my throne
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Come Fimbulvetr
The far North
Between the snowy fells
We stand-we think
The times that passed
The times that are gone
For they remind us
Of the times of glory our pride
When our swords could drink
The blood of the weak
Now they`re all gone
Proud men have flown to Valhalla
Left behind are only memories
That hail us now
We live under a shadow
In depression and woe
There hasn`t been dignity
For a thousand years
There won`t be that`s too much to ask
Come Fimbulvetr
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Yggdrasil's Children Fall
Act I: The Death of Balder
Autumn came to an end
And the first snows began to fall
Balder`s face was clouded
The dreams of warning had called
His mother sought oaths
From all things below the sky
To not to hurt her son
To not to let him die
Balder stood there encircled by gods
Thrown with stones, spears and hit with sword
No damage they had caused, not a wound
In jealousy Loki disguised to find why there was no harm
The mother told him that all the things on the earth
Had sworn an oath not to harm nor kill her son
All? , he asked and then she told him
That only one was too young to swear
And misteltoe was the one
So Loki went across the frosted land
To an ancient tree where misteltoe grew
He cut off a piece and returned to the plain
Where gods still were enjoying their game
Loki saw Hodur the Blind sitting
Outside the ring watching the gods` game
Loki gave him the twig and offered to guide his hand
Pleased Hodur stepped forth and threw the twig across the plain
It hit Balder`s chest piercing
His bright body and he fell onto groud in blood
The laughter and the joy ceased
When Balder`s blood spilled on the pure snow of Asgard
Act II: A Farewell to the Son of Odin
Balder was set into the ship
And there he laid cold with his wife beside him
On his breast were all his possessions
Placed carefully
As the ceremony began
The sun sank low over the icy sea
Two ravens circled in the clear blue sky
Singing their sadness
Thor raised his hammer and blessed the pyre
Waves carried the ship far to the sea
There it burned bright high against the darkening sky
Odin stood…tears falling from his eyes
Act III: Hermod`s Ride to Hel
Through dark howling valleys
Of wind swept desolation
Hermod rode alone
Towards the land of death
Sleipnir`s hooves in fire
Nine days, nine nights
Hermod rode to Hel
On the farthest shore of Gjoll he came
The bridge keeper waited Modgud her name
He asked for the release of Balder
His brother
She recalled and showed him the path
Into the dark
Hermod arrived to the place
At the Hel`s table among the dead
He found his brother sitting
Hermod told Balder
He had came to take him to Asgard
That night they sat
Chatting and recalling past times
He went to Hel and begged her
For Balder`s release
Telling her that all mourned for his decease
She promised, if all things wept for him
He`d be free to return through the valleys so dim
Hermod returned and told the gods what Hel had said
So messengers were sent to all over thr world
And all the world wept for their Balder beloved
Only one old woman refused;
”Let Hel keep what she had”
Act IV: The Bounding of Loki
Soon the gods found that old woman was Loki
Revenge they swore and begin to hunt him
Loki spent days as a salmon in waters
Or as himself in a house
Once the gods found Loki hiding in the river
When he jumped to escape
Thor caught him into his fist
The gods took him to a deep cavern with his sons
One day changed into a wolf
And the wolf devoured other son`s body
The gods took hos intestines
And with them bound Loki to rocks
Skadi hung a snake above Loki`s head
Venom dripping into his mouth
So great was the pain
That when Loki writhed
All the worlds shook and trembled…
Act V: The Final Battle
After Balder`s death
The gods withrew from the earth
Evil spread and Fimbulvetr arrived
Battles raged all over
The wolves rose
One devoured the sun
One the moon
Stars fell crushing onto the earth
Fenris broke his chains
Midgard heaved his body
Drowned the land in waves
Washed the battlefields bloody
Giants marched
Fenris approached
Gjallarhorn`s alarm
Echoed in the air
The armies of dead marched
Lead by Loki the avenger
The battlefield of Vigrid
Will soon bathe in blood
Odin rushed
With a spear in his hand
Behind him came
The heroes of Valhalla
And the battle began
God against giant
And giant against god
The brave armies clashed
After a long battle
Both giants and gods
Laid on the ground
Never to rise again…
Act VI: A New Heaven, A New Earth
All the earth burnt in flames
In times the flames will die
One man and one woman survived
And they shall breed a new race
Vidar and Vali will walk upon a new heaven
They`ll live upon the Ida plain
Where Asgard once was
And re-build it to be
Far greater than before
Children of Thor will bring their father`s hammer
And Balder will return bright
Leading the gods in the new age
…The new age under the sign of the hammer
Autumn Roars Thunder
Autumn Roars Thunder
Torchlight in utter darkness
Starts licking wood with its deadly tongue
In seconds its hunger grows
Wood is eaten by flames twelve feet long
Before the the eyes of heathens
The shrine of the cross lights up the glade
On the groud lie six bodies
That have met their fate by pagan blade
Hear the autumn thunder in the sky
Banishing the mild summer breeze
An autumn thunder roars down on the ground
By its force the foreign god flees
A flash of steel cuts flesh
By doing so it cuts the cross
The mossy ground drinks the blood
Of a hundred men in white clothes
The morning smells of death
But still it feels like a fresh wind
After so many years
Were the forests returned to the pagan kings
Hear the autumn thunder in the sky…
Fullmoon turned to crescent and crescent to fullmoon
Many times over the forests of Hame
The olod gods were respected
And new houses rose on the ashes of the cross
All was at peace
When the summer began to turn into autumn
But when the first leaves turned to yellow and brown
People began to see signs… bad omens
One day a hunter from the coast came
And told he had heard rumours
The ships of the foe had been seen in northwest
And their numbers were great
Morning mist chilly was floating up from the sea
At a dawn when leaves were falling down from trees
Gathered were the pagan kings to the circle of the stones
Out of silence rose a man known as wise and old
”We`ve all seen the fires
And heard the tale of the hunter
Hear my words whyen I say
This autumn roars thunder”
Passed dusks and dawns two times ten
Fires burning were not on their hills
Again was blood flowing, now of heathen men
The foe had returned to burn and kill
Village by village they went
Leaving only crosses and ashes behind
Until pagans were beaten
By their body, not their mind
Poured water on their heads
Mumbling words of a foreign tongue
Built houses for their god
Was the pride of these forests forever gone?
Hear the autumn thunder fade away
With its` echothey lost their pride
Freedom of centuries was lost in days
The autumn thunderin their hearts had died
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Nightowl
Two eyes in darkness like two burning fires
Still cold as a wintery lake
The moon is hidden behind dark clouds
Fluttering wings…the silence breaks
I was walking on the edge of the forest
When the eyes began to approach
A while I just stood there watching
The eyes coming close
The owl she came onto my arm
Her eyes staring deep into me
Soon a shroud covered my eyes
I could hear but I couldn`t see
”The time is close, o men of Karelia
Men of pride, the time is near
Soon thou will see a new god coming
When snow falls he will be here
Centuries to come will see his dominion
His dominion that makes thee slaves
Have not fear, it wont last forever
The new dawn will hail thy fathers` gods again”
At the very moment the last word was gone
Returned my sight
I saw no owl only heard a silent flutter
From Tapio`s realm, from the fading night
As I walked away I thought:
”It can`t be true that a northern man
Would lose his hohour and be a slave
Of a god from an unknown land…”
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When Ancient Spirits Battled
The battle of the giants was raging
The Earth tried to free from the Ice
Who had taken her to his deadly embrace
And shunned her from all light
The Sun rose and set a million times
In the southern horizon
Before he felt pity for the Earth
Decided to save his beloved one
The warm rays of the Sun laid upon the Earth
Ice began to melt-waters flow
So withdrew the Ice northwards to a land
Where aurora borealis glow
In time were waters dried
Still was the Earth desolate
No life, no growth but one tree
Suffering of Ice`s winds` hate
Of the seeds of this lonely tree
Grew a forest and another and another
The landscape changed to blue and green
Lakes and forests became brothers
Althought winters were cold
The land survived and filled with life
Wolves and bears wandered in woods
Not threatened by spear or knife
At a dawn on a hillside climbed a two-legged creature
Wrapped in a hide and carrying a sharpened bone
He watched the land and its beauty
This was going to be his home…
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The Conspiracy Of The Pagan Cult
Strenghtened bravemen hearts
Ride with the pale moon
Reach for the source of wisdom
In the glace of the guiding star
Visions of a pure land
As fires haunt
The chains are unbound
The visions shall be true
A throne is risen
For the bravehearted northmen
Sprung out of the source of wisdom
With pure pagan blood
Ages of the elders return
Fallen upon the traitor`s hand
The curs shall be slain
Slain by the Hammer of pride
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Hymn Of The Darkwoods
Up from the North we come
From the land of a thousand lakes
A heathen force from once proud Northland
Where pines are covered with snowflakes
Pagan warriors, hear our battlehymn
Help our words soar high
Thou shall be greeted with our mighty hail
Our star is on rise!
Break thy chains of enslavement
Time will come to the enslavers to pay
One winter solstice we shall gather together
And that will be their doomsday!
Pagan warriors…
Our star is now dim
But getting brighter
It will replace the enslaver sun
Hear us, brothers and sisters
A new day is dawning
Upon us heirs of the Northstar
Pagan warriors…
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On The Top Of The Falconhill
On the top of the Falconhill…
I was standing surrounded by solitude
Evening breeze as my only friend
It was a beautiful dusk of November
Darkness wrapping around the hills where paths end
To my eyes reflected a distant fire
A fire from far away
A sign our enemy is approaching
From land beyond the bay
Beyond the mist covered forests on the river I saw
Three dozen ships with crosses on sails
Soon everywhere burnt fires
Mine among others
From the village a horde was marching
Till death or fame!
To my eyes…
By the time the sun was about to rise above the skyline
The army of the cross and heathen hordes collided
By time the sun was lurking high behind a cloud
Only the heathen swords were held against the sky
They were slaughtered and banished for now
But they will return to spread their word and kill
It was a god-against-gods-battle I saw
On the top of the Falconhill
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King's Gray Shadow
He wandered through landscapes painted
Green by forests and blue by lakes
All the way of leagues of ten and five
Until he arcived during the fall of twilight
Gatherd the villagers around him
To hear the sad news he had to bring
Three dawns ago in the land towards sunrise
Was thy king slain in the battle at night
A gray cloud shadowed the hearts of men
And flowing tears wet women`s eyes
Their king had gone to Tuonela
Had his spirit among them died?
Had it gone away with the flames
That burned his warship-his grave
The nightwinds had called his name
The gods got another man brave
Weeks after the funeral was seen a shadow grey
Roaming in the woods of the eastern land
Hiding in daytime then returning at night
Haunting in the minds of the mortals who killed the king
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I Burn At The Stake
I wake up in shivers of cold
On a chilly sunny morning of May
My eyes try catch up with what is going on
They only recall the nights which in dungeons I laid
Chanting in a tongue unknown fills my ears
Odour of incences warmth of torchfires
Men wearing black hooded robes are closing me
Golden crosses glow as they light my pyre
In the name of the holy trinity
We purify thy soul with these flames
And baptise you
Never! You can burn me, bastards
But you can never take my faith
I spit on you cross and curse you
In the name of the spirits of my fathers!
Be cursed you servants of a foreign god
Despisable betrayers of your people
I will never ever accept your faith
Rather I burn at the stake!
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Red Sky Over The Land Of Fells
In the midst of the dead earth up through the clouds they rise
Feet sunk in moss heads covered in a veil of white
Kings born and die fells still watch up proud
Like giants in their grandeur they stand and hold the sky
Shadows grow tall covering the barren earth
The earth that wears only lichen and moss
The sun is setting and the sky dresses in red
For the coming six fullmoons all light will be lost
The daylight goes hiding to into the infinity
The last shades of red turn slowly to gray…and then to black
On some nights will the northern lights appear
And send their rays to reflect from the snow
Colouring the lands of fells in all their shades
When they disappear…only darkness remains
Witch-Hunts
Without Ceremony And Bell Toll
Summer 1657
A tailor's daughter in pain - bewitched
A healer had told that the witch will be revealed
Before sundown a woman known as evil appeard
"That bitch must have done it. She must be offspring of satan himself"
Despite the accusitions she offered to help
And poured a potion all over her
All of a sudden she started to shake
The birth of four frog-like creatures was seen
"She threatened me that inside I would melt 'cos I didn't give her butter" the poor girl yelled
So the witch was bound in heavy chains. And taken to the court as a servant of hell
"I met a mysterious black man. He kissed me and taught how to do harm"
As interrogation and torture went on. Heard the good people of the court horrible things
Thirteen years as a servant of satan. A whole and a right hand to the dark prince
Sabbaths, or devotions to the devil
Were held on a small nearby hill
At the peak of the torment
She turned in a few who had been there
"I met a mysterious black man. He kissed me and taught how to do harm"
343 days she spent in prison. While the court sentenced her to death
A mourning when the summer was at its warmest. She was taken out and beheaded with another witch
Burned to ashes, spat on, despised
Buried into a hole outside of the holy ground
Shamefully she was laid to rest
Without ceremony and bell toll
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Inside The Circle Of Stones
A long time ago this stone circle built
The reason behind it remaind a mystery
Why was it built at end of all paths?
On a tiny glade where no one could find
I wondered what was the purpose of this strange cult
To quench the thirst of my curiosity I decided to step in
The very moment I put my feet inside
I lost my consciousness, my sense of reality
It was another world I ended up in
Somewhere far from ours
I flew through a tunnel where voices
Were calling my name enchantingly
Flashes of nightmareous visions
A man of god would say I still was in hell
Suddenly I found myself in a void
Empty of matter empty of noise
A while I didn't know if I still was flying
Until it began again
It was as sudden when I got back to my reality
Supposedly after rolling out of the circle in the dream
I immediately knew that my knowledge wasn't enough
To research and possess this secret
When I walked away I stopped on a little hill
I saw it again, now also its shape...a five-pointed star
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The Crow And The Warrior
Once in the silence of the woods
In the shadows of a crescent moon
The eyes scan the beautiful nocturne
The ears enjoy silent songs
"I have seen things and heard talks
Thy eyes are blind and ears deaf to
Words carried in the nightly breeze
Images in the autumnal grass"
Once in the silence of the woods
Under the spiral of oaken branches
Breathing slowly, heart pounding weakly
Shadows floating towards his eyes
"I have heard thee come since the moon was full
The owls knew what thou knew not
Oh thee children, thee almighty creatures
Ignorant are thee of thy width of knowledge
Under question should thou place thy concepts
Of Übermensch and Untermensch
For man has never, and will never even be positioned
Hath the words of the crow
Vanished with the echo into the night
Descended dark shadows
And covered the eyes
No sorrow felt the old crow
The secrets he revealed would remains as such
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Dying To Meet You
In the eyes of the moon I see you
The face that brought my soul joy
In the reflections of the sun I feel you
The cross that brought me hate and pain
To the other side of the river my soul yearns
I am dying to meet you again
To the ruins of what once was a church my soul yearns
I am dying to meet you face to face
I remember the sweetness of the nights
Only me and you and the starlit sky
Now I have swallowed too many goblets
Of the bitter wine of anger you made me to drink
On that night rain fell not
On that night winds blew not
In the thick hot air
One dozen...two dozen
Torches appeared out of the chanting darkness
Simple minds certain of their ways being the best
I recall the last time I saw you
Screaming for me on that torchlit hill
And I sure will never forget you
Not before my sword cuts off your crow
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The Preacher Came to Town
A peaceful town down by the lake
A cradle of goodness and righteousness it was said
Quite prosperous one might add
Rye fieds, cattle, and the riches of the lake
Fallacious was their dormancy of shelter
Blindfolded had they themselves with the shadow of the cross
This dormancy lasted until a dusk in August
A preacher came, handsome enough to wet any lady
He was greeted with warmth and friendliness
Though a bit of jealousy showed on the looks of the men
Nobody wondered why she spoke no words of god
And his eyes were glued to women's bodies
Nobody simply paid any attention to it
Especially the women enchanted by his attaractiveness
Until one day the paint on the church walls began to crumble
The crop festered and the cattle began to die
The wives disappeared just before midnight
Only to return before the first rays of sunrise
It began to snow at end of the month
The crop and the cattle dead, ground frozen, famine awaited
Vanished was the atmosphere of honesty and good will
People became wary of each other for anybody could have
Evoked this curse upon them
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Burn, Witches, Burn
"He must be the root of all this misery
The ladies, whores, a satan's tool to send us to eternity
Ring, brothers, ring the bells and bring the torches
Let us tie them up to the stake - burn, witches, burn"
Finally the men of the town could point the guilt to someone
Of cource it had to be the stranger
Following their wives at night they had found the orgies
Rituals to bring forth the powers of Hell
"How could you our beloved wives
Grant your bodies to be used to do evil
On him we know no mercy, nor can we give you any
Follow us to the hills - burn, witches, burn"
First they surrounded the guest house where the preacher
Was sleeping off the exertions of the night
A cross-shaped pole they drove through his black heart
Sending him to join his master in the pits of Hell
The few women still considered faithful
Were told to stay at home
While the others were being marched to the hills
These women gathered...
The guilty women of the town were taken to the hills
Where huge bonfires were standing
Tied up to the stakes they were - naked to face the god
In tears they cried: "We were possessed!"
"In the name of the holy trinity
Be purified by these flames
We pray for your souls on your way to damnation
For all the evil you have done - burn, witches, burn"
__________
Witch Hunters
Twenty years had passed, happiness had come back
Only the painful memories were acting as reminders
These was a new phenomenon that made rumours spread
Something was going on in the deep dark woods
A cult curtained in secrety...or evil spirits of the night?
The nature of these mysterious creatures...and their origin were unknown
The cult of witch hunters
The offspring of the preacher and his whores
in the jet-black night of Samhain
The peace and happiness were broken
The demonic hordes from the woods
Stormed throught the town setting it ablaze
"We have come to avenge the death of our mothers
Now you can also get a taste of the Inferno"
The witch hunters marched into every house
Impaling the burners and their kin
The church was burned by their infernal hatred
Women raped by their infernal lust
The men who judged the mothers to be burned
Were treated like the mothers had been treated
After the horrifying hours of torture
They were tied and burned at the stake
After the task was completed the earth started to shake
The remains of the houses collapsed to the ground
The jaws of hell opened right where peace once prevailed
Victorious had the witch-hunt been where the hunter became the hunter
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