Here I am : enemies : come and taste the steel of
my sword the earth was still young and the land
all new when it was forged ore of themountain
towering wowards endless sky the runes down its
blade the last thing you will see before you die

In the spring we sailed from Asa Bay with wind and
tide twenty-nine in all we were : bloodbrothers
side by side down foreign coasts : across the
ocean : wind would fill our sail high adventures :
better to fall by the sword than to die from age
or ail

The emperor I served in Miklagard : grand guard
was I me and my brothers in gold were paid : on my
sword I did rely returning to Nordland by horse :
ambushed were we and so here I am : come enemies :
cornered with my back to the sea

The ground beneath our feet all red awash with
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prepare to meet thy God shoulder by shoulder :
knee by knee : bloodbrothers by my side forgive me
mother for missing the unseen blow that cut me
down from behind

All still : no more pain : the wind whispering my
name this wound my last : the darkness around me
seems vast Then a bright light I see : the clouds
swirl and part before me in the distance a woman
approaching : with a gesture she invites me to
proceed

Then a bronze horn I hear : it calls me : and the
bridge seems to stretch for a lifetime way before
me a palace is rising : out of the mist : like a
mountain it stands And it greets me with gates
open wide : all around me bloodbrothers by my side
and they show me the seat that bears my name : my
place at the table of Oden I do claim