Luyện nghe bài hát Yggdrasil's Children Fall

Act I: The of Balder

came to an end
And the first began to fall
face was clouded
The dreams of had called
His mother oaths
>From all this the sky
To not to her son
To not to let him die

Balder stood there encircled by
Thrown with stones, and hit
sword
No they had caused, not a wound
In Loki disguised to find
Why there was no
The mother him that all the things
On the
Had an oath not to harm nor
her son
'All? ', he and then she told him
only one was too young to swear
And was the one

So Loki went across the frosted
To an ancient where mistletoe grew
He cut off a and
to the plain
Where gods were still enjoying game

Loki saw the Blind sitting
Outside the ring
The god's
Loki gave him the and offered
To his hand
Hodur stepped forth
And threw the twig across the
It hit chest piercing
His body and he fell
the ground in blood
The laughter and the joy
When Balder's blood
On the pure snow of

Act II: A Farewell to the Son of

was set into his ship
And there he laid
his wife beside him
On his were all his possessions
carefully
As the ceremony
The sun low over the icy sea
Two ravens
In the clear sky
Singing sadness
Thor his hammer
And blessed the
Waves the ship far to the sea
it burnt bright high
Against the sky
Odin stood... falling from his eyes

Act III: Ride to Hel

Through dark howling
Of swept desolation
Hermod alone
Towards the of death
Sleipnir's in fire
Nine days, nights
rode to Hel

On the shore of Gjoll he came
The keeper waited Modgud
Her
He asked for the of Balder
His
She and showed him the path
the dark

Hermod to the palace
At the table among the dead
He found his brother
Hermod told
He had come to take him to
That night sat
and recalling past times

He to Hel and begged her
For release
her that all mourned
For his
She promised, if all weeped
For him
be free to return
Through the so dim

Hermod returned and the gods
Hel had said
So were sent to
All over the
And all the world
For their beloved
one old woman refused:
'Let Hel keep what she

Act IV: The of Loki

Soon the gods
old woman was Loki
Revenge they
And begin to him
Loki spent days as a salmon in
Or as in a house
Once the found Loki hiding
In a
When he jumped to
Thor him into his fist
The gods him to a deep cavern
his sons
One day changed into a
And the wolf devoured son's body
The gods his intestines
And with bound Loki to rocks
Skadi hung a snake Loki's head
Venom into his mouth
So was the pain
That Loki writhed
All th worlds and trembled...

Act V: The Final

Balder's death
The gods withdrew from the
Evil spread and Fimbulvetr
Battles all over
The rose
One the sun
One the
Stars fell onto the earth

Fenris his chains
Midgard heaved his
the land in waves
Washed the bloody
Giants
approached
Gjallarhorn's
in the air

The of dead marched
Lead by the avenger
The of Vigrid
soon bathe in blood
Odin
With a in his hand
Behind him
The heroes of

And the battle
God against
And against god
The brave armies
After a battle
Both giants and
on the ground
Never to again...

Act IV: A New Heaven, A New

All the burnt in flames
In the flames will die
One man and one survived
And they shall bleed a new
Vidar and vali will walk
A new
They'll live the Ida plain
Where once was
And it to be
Far than before
Children of thor bring
father's hammer
And Balder return bright
the gods in the new age
...The new age under the
Of the