Tekst piosenki
Here I am : enemies : come and taste the steel of my swordthe earth was still young and the land all new when it was forgedore of themountain towering wowards endless skythe runes down its blade the last thing you will see before you die In the spring we sailed from Asa Bay with wind and tidetwenty-nine in all we were : bloodbrothers side by sidedown foreign coasts : across the ocean : wind would fill our sailhigh adventures : better to fall by the sword than to die from age or ail The emperor I served in Miklagard : grand guard was Ime and my brothers in gold were paid : on my sword I did relyreturning to Nordland by horse : ambushed were weand so here I am : come enemies : cornered with my back to the sea The ground beneath our feet all red awash with human bloodsevered limbs and bodies dead : prepare to meet thy Godshoulder by shoulder : knee by knee : bloodbrothers by my sideforgive me mother for missing the unseen blow that cut me down from behind All still : no more pain : the wind whispering my namethis wound my last : the darkness around me seems vast Then a bright light I see : the clouds swirl and part before mein 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 lifetimeway 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 sideand they show me the seat that bears my name : my place at the table of Oden I do claim
