Son of Nore - Allfader

Come, kings, and listen to my song:

When Gwin, the son of Nore

Over the nations of the north his cruel sceptre bore

The nobles of the land did feed upon the hungry poor

They tear the poor man’s lamb

And drive they needy from their door

Gordred the giant roused himself

From sleeping in his cave

He shook the hills, and in the clouds

The troubled banners wave

Beneath them rolled, like tempests black

The numerous sons of blood;

Like lion’s whelp, roaring abroad

Seeking their nightly food

Down Bleron’s hills they dreadful rush

Their cry ascends the clouds

The trampling horse and clanging arms

Like rushing mighty floods

Earth smokes with blood

And groan and snakes

To drink her children’s gore

A sea of blood, nor can the eye

See to the trembling shore

Son of Nore

Like the ghost of Barraton

Who sports in stormy sky

Gwin leads his host as black as

Night when pestilence does fly

With horses and with chariots

And all his spearmen bold

March to the sound of mournful song

Like clouds around him rolled

Gwin lifts his hand the nations halt

«Prepare for war!»

he cries

Gordered appears, his frowning brow

Troubles our northern skies

And now the raging armies rushed

Like warring mighty seas

The heavens shake with roaring war

The dust ascends the skies

And on the verge of this wild sea

Famine and death doth cry

The cries of women and of

Babes over the field doth fly

The king in rage, afar

With all his men of might

Like blazing comets scattering death

Through the red feverous night

The god of war is drunk with blood

The earth doth faint and fail

The stench of blood makes sick the heavens

Ghosts glut the throat of hell

O what have kings to answer

For before that awful throne

When thousand deaths for vengeance cry

And ghosts accusing groan

Like blazing comets in the sky

That shake the stars of light

Which drop like fruit unto the earth

Through the fierce burning night

Like these did Gwin and Gordred meet

And the first blow decides

Down from the brow unto the breast

Gordred his head divides

Gwin fell, the sons of Norway fled

All that remained alive

The rest did fill the vale of death

For them the eagles strive

Gone, the son of Nore