The Oath He Swore One Wintersday - Hagalaz' Runedance

A snowed in forest path

With lament I dream of long forgotten times

An image comes to my mind

Of a young man riding through the frozen woods

In his eyes rage and bitter tears

His village was burnt to the ground

He storms forth, crying out his pain

He is driven by his mothers last words:

Raise your sword, my warrior

And revenge us

Fight the men that came to rape our souls

Never let our gods die.

Hi’s loved ones were no more

The false men with cross slaughtered them all

They tried to enforce strange rules

Which were only meant to turn men to fools

His people saw through the lies

They stood proud until the end of their time

By the false men they were shamed

Young man for your honour you will have to die.

Raise your sword, my warrior

And revenge us

Fight the men that came to rape our soil

Never let nature die

My vision ends here

And I return to the modern world

Suddenly I see a young man walking

Sad blue eyes in a bitter face

And there’s a young man in the east

And another in the west

And another raising from the south

They all move on driven by the call:

Raise yourself, warrior

And revenge us

Fight the men with cross that raped our souls

Never let our gods die

Raise yourself, warrior

And revenge us

Fight the men with cross that raped our soil

Never let nature die