Yggdrasil's Children Fall Lyrics - Darkwoods My Betrothed

Act I: The Death of Balder 

Autumn came to an end 

And the first snow began to fall 

Balder's face was clouded 

The dreams of warning had called 

His mother sought oaths 

>From all this 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 mistletoe was the one 

So Loki went across the frosted land 

To an ancient tree where mistletoe grew 

He cut off a piece and 

Returned to the plain 

Where gods were still enjoying their game 

Loki saw Hodur the Blind sitting 

Outside the ring watching 

The god's 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 the ground in blood 

The laughter and the joy ceased 

When Balder's blood spilled 

On the pure snow of Asgrd 

Act II: A Farewell to the Son of Odin 

Balder was set into his 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 burnt 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 palace 

At the Hel's table among the dead 

He found his brother sitting 

Hermod told Balder 

He had come to take him to Asgrd 

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 weeped 

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 the 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 a 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 his 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 th worlds shook and trembled... 

Act V: The Final Battle 

After Balder's death 

The gods withdrew 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 IV: 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 bleed a new race 

Vidar and vali will walk upon 

A new heaven 

They'll live upon the Ida plain 

Where Asgrd 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