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The Void Stretched Wide
01:02
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Nothingness stretches wide
Ginnungagap, the great void
Fire of Muspell
Cold of Niflheim
Hvergelmir sending the waves
Venomous vapor aggregates
Elivagar flowing to rime
Life will spring forth in time
Hoarfrost within the dark
From deep within a new life will spark
Waves of ice forming the center
Soon a giant will emerge
Darkness retreats
The void shrinks
Primordial forces
Merging within the ice
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Poison from a river within the void
Ginnungagap, filling its center with the first one
Deep within the hoarfrost
A new spark springs to life
Ymir, the first to live
And the first to die
Now far beyond the void
To soon become the world
From he, the jotnar
And the new home of man
The giant feasts upon Audumbla
Soon the dwarven light shall break unto the realm
Soon new life shall dwell among the corpse
And Aesir will rise in time
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Yggdrasil reaches out to the realms
Serpents beneath the roots spilling their poison
The great wells sit beneath the boughs
And a mighty dragon stirs
Later the gallows traded for wisdom
Now branching out a new place for man
All of the realms ringing the extent
The world tree, the great ash
Sitting beneath the new realm
Still growing strong, reaching out with a new branch
The three norns sit at its base, weaving the fate of all life
Four great stags patrol the land
Source of all cosmology
Aesir shall soon make this their meeting grounds
A new arm from the world tree
A new home for new creations
The three norns have seen the end
Weaving fate for all who will come
One among Aesir, one with the jotnar
And the third in Niflheim
A graceful eagle soars high above
Ratatoskr travels the trunk
Yggdrasil, home to the nine expanses
A new branch reaches leading the way for the center
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As Young Beings Roamed
06:04
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We are jotnar, we stand above
Spawn of the earliest one, roaming the new world
From left arm of Ymir and the mighty frost legs
For now we rule the land at Ymir's cold left hand
Giants, every last one, all bow to their command
The jotnar before their own home, soon destined to die
But now they stand tall above the rest
Icy veins, mired in cold, to drown in blood as was foretold
So was said in our tales passed down from old
Before Jotunheim the giants walked the land
Building from ruins with cold hands
Among the early living, kin of Bergelmir
A time long since forgotten, descending from Ymir
We are jotnar, we stand above
We rule the land until the sanguine flood
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Three Grew Restless
04:13
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Sons of Borr, he of ancient Buri
And of Bestla, early of the jotnar
Meeting to create a bright triumvirate
In a land where young beings thrive, three more shall find their way
Of the most ancient, the new ones seek to build the middle high
Odin, the highest, Vili, and Ve
First of the mighty Aesir
Before the golden halls, a new world must be made
Grimnir and brothers blaze through a land primordial and unformed
A giant awaits his own demise, the first to fall by new ambition
Rule of the giants shall come to an end
Violence flowing, it must be unleashed
And now the aspiration boils over into fate
Descended of primordial and jotnar, heading into battle unafraid
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The young Aesir soon launch their attack
But the mightiest of giants will strike back
Ymir braces for the assault
Raising cold hands in the air, soon to give up all
Siblings set out to slay the first
Hunger for blood, they must quench their thirst
Odin, Vili, Ve
Changing the course of life
Gaping wound opens on his throat
Ymir's blood pours forth, as the fates wrote
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After the battle Ymir now lies still
Young three stand above, winning by strength and will
The thunderous clashing has come to an end
The giant's great wound will never mend
The last two jotnar riding above the waves
Blood is flowing, flooding the realm
For first giants, the end of days
Ymir's wound filling the landscape around
Blood of the fallen, red oceans churn
From his corpse a new world shall rise
Odin, Vili, and Ve, victory shines in their eyes
Exsanguinate the first made
The Aesir go forth to create
Crimson waters filling the land
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The titan's corpse provides all of the material
Odin and brothers crafting the world, a new branch they will now fill
Earth from flesh, mountains from bones
The red flowing blood becomes the sea within a new world unknown
Skullcraft sky with dwarven pillars
North, South, East, and West carry the burden above
And a new center raised up by Aesir
Lashing the lashes to craft the home
Enclosed by the giant's great brow
Descendents of mankind shall call this new world home
But they will not inhabit the great tree alone
The burden of Ymir, the greatest, the first to die
The world from his body, from his skull the sky
Oldest of giants taken down by the Aesir
Of this tale, all will someday hear
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Burden of Ymir Greater Sudbury, Ontario
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Music inspired by Old Norse mythology and other tales, often described as "blackened folk metal", "viking metal", "folk black metal", "pagan metal"
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