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Act I: The Death of

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

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

So went across the frosted land
To an tree where mistletoe grew
He cut off a and
to the plain
Where were still enjoying their game

Loki saw the Blind sitting
Outside the watching
The god's
Loki gave him the twig and
To guide his
Pleased Hodur stepped
And threw the twig the plain
It hit Balder's piercing
His bright and he fell
Onto the ground in
The and the joy ceased
When blood spilled
On the pure of Asgrd

Act II: A Farewell to the Son of

Balder was set his ship
And there he cold
With his wife him
On his breast all his possessions
carefully
As the ceremony
The sun sank low the icy sea
Two ravens
In the clear sky
their sadness
Thor raised his
And blessed the
carried the ship far to the sea
There it burnt bright
Against the sky
Odin stood... tears from his eyes

Act III: Ride to Hel

dark howling valleys
Of wind desolation
rode alone
Towards the land of
Sleipnir's in fire
Nine days, nine
Hermod to Hel

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

Hermod arrived to the
At the table among the dead
He found his brother
Hermod told
He had to take him to Asgrd
That they sat
and recalling past times

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

returned and told the gods
What Hel had
So were sent to
All the world
And all the world
For their Balder
one old woman refused:
'Let Hel keep what she

Act IV: The Bounding of

Soon the found
That old woman was
Revenge swore
And to hunt him
Loki spent as a salmon in waters
Or as himself in a
Once the found Loki hiding
In a
When he jumped to
Thor him into his fist
The gods took him to a deep
With his
One day changed a wolf
And the wolf devoured other body
The took his intestines
And with them bound to rocks
Skadi hung a above Loki's head
Venom dripping into his
So was the pain
That when writhed
All th worlds and trembled...

Act V: The Final

After death
The gods withdrew the earth
spread and Fimbulvetr arrived
Battles raged all
The rose
One the sun
One the
Stars fell onto the earth

broke his chains
Midgard heaved his
the land in waves
Washed the battlefields
Giants
approached
Gjallarhorn's
in the air

The of dead marched
by Loki the avenger
The of Vigrid
Will bathe in blood
Odin
With a in his hand
him came
The of Valhalla

And the began
God giant
And against god
The brave armies
a long battle
Both and gods
on the ground
Never to again...

Act IV: A New Heaven, A New

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