Name: Axe (Battle of Hastings)
Duration: P00H09M43S
Description: This is a song about a Norse settler in England who is fighting for the English side in the Battle of Hastings (1066 A.D.).

Axe (Battle of Hastings)

from Nebelreiter [EP] by Hávamál

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This is a song about a Norse settler in England who is fighting for the English side in the Battle of Hastings (1066 A.D.).

lyrics

JJ's part:
7,000 men on the battlefield
English infantry
Northern kin amongst them
And the foreign threat

6,000 soldiers on the Norman side
Cavalry and trained men
Archers and professionals
Against peasants at arms

CHORUS
Axe
Crushes shields
Our lines broken
But not our will

Cavalry in thousands
Our weapons strike
The hordes
Of invading enemies

High upon a ridge we stand
Waiting for the enemy
William the Bastard his name
A pretender to the throne

Once proud norsemen like myself
Only Christians now
Conquest by papal decree
Forlorn ancestry

CHORUS

Vicious retreats
Liars, Loki's children rise!
Christian deceit
I am the last to die
This world will die with me

Norman arrows strike our rows
Slings and stones fire back
Our spears pierce their pride
Triumphant I cry

I take my two hands battle axe
Then charge into their hordes
I slay these godsent riders
Till their arrows strike me down

On this battlefield
My heritage fades away
I am fading
The last of northern virtue
Dies with me

Bianca's part:
What is left to give
After everything is given
What is left to take
After everything is taken

Liars, Loki's children rise
Christian deceit
You are the last to stand
This world will die with you

credits

from Nebelreiter [EP], released January 5, 2018
Basic song structure by Melvyn Haas and Niklas Geist.
Main lyrics written by Jonathan J. Schulz.
Bianca's part written by Bianca Turner.
Outro written by Bianca Turner and Niklas Geist.

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Pagan/Folk Metal Band from Hanau, Germany

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