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Act I: The Death of

came to an end
And the first snow began to
Balder's face was
The dreams of warning had
His sought oaths
all this below the sky
To not to her son
To not to let him die

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

So Loki went the frosted land
To an ancient where mistletoe grew
He cut off a and
Returned to the
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
Pleased Hodur stepped
And threw the across the plain
It hit Balder's piercing
His bright body and he
Onto the in blood
The laughter and the joy
Balder's blood spilled
On the pure snow of

Act II: A to the Son of Odin

was set into his ship
And there he laid
With his beside him
On his were all his possessions
Placed
As the began
The sun low over the icy sea
Two circled
In the blue sky
their sadness
Thor raised his
And the pyre
carried the ship far to the sea
There it burnt high
Against the sky
Odin stood... tears falling his eyes

Act Hermod's Ride to Hel

Through dark valleys
Of wind swept
rode alone
Towards the of death
Sleipnir's in fire
Nine days, nine
rode to Hel

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

Hermod to the palace
At the Hel's table the dead
He found his sitting
told Balder
He had come to him to Asgrd
That they sat
Chatting and recalling times

He to Hel and begged her
For Balder's
Telling her that all
For his
She promised, if all weeped
For him
He'd be to return
Through the so dim

Hermod returned and told the
What Hel had
So were sent to
All over the
And all the wept
For their beloved
Only one old refused:
Hel keep what she had'

Act IV: The Bounding of

Soon the found
That old was Loki
Revenge swore
And begin to him
Loki days as a salmon in waters
Or as himself in a
the gods found Loki hiding
In a
When he jumped to
Thor caught him his fist
The gods took him to a cavern
With his
One day changed a wolf
And the wolf devoured other body
The took his intestines
And with them Loki to rocks
hung a snake above Loki's head
Venom dripping his mouth
So was the pain
That when Loki
All th shook and trembled...

Act V: The Final

Balder's death
The withdrew from the earth
spread and Fimbulvetr arrived
Battles raged all
The wolves
One the sun
One the
Stars crushing onto the earth

broke his chains
Midgard heaved his
Drowned the land in
the battlefields bloody
Giants
Fenris
Gjallarhorn's
in the air

The armies of marched
Lead by Loki the
The battlefield of
Will soon bathe in
rushed
With a in his hand
Behind him
The heroes of

And the began
God giant
And giant god
The brave armies
After a long
Both and gods
Laid on the
Never to again...

Act IV: A New Heaven, A New

All the earth burnt in
In times the flames die
One man and one survived
And they shall a new race
Vidar and will walk upon
A new
live upon the Ida plain
Where Asgrd was
And it to be
Far greater than
Children of will bring
father's hammer
And Balder return bright
the gods in the new age
...The new age the sign
Of the