BLOOD BONDS

Howling with the wolf

Hunting with the bear

Sleeping in trees

Having no fear

The lights of the town

They are not my own

The boiling of my blood

The violence in my bones

I hear the cat creep

I see the grass grow

The roots of the mountain

The caw of a crow

The forest, it calls

The sea my heart stirs

The highlands are home

My clothes are the furs

The creatures, my friends

The spirits, my kin

The Gjallarhorn will sound

The battles I win

The Gods, they are watching

Being kinsmen on high

When my Oerloeg has faded

To Valholl will I fly

Mead I am drinking

Sword I am hefting

Shield I am swinging

Flesh I am cleaving

Victory I am granted

The flames leaping high

The Longship is laden

I row with a sigh

North I am sailing

Homeward I go

Westward now rowing

To land of blood and snow

Tilling the land

Fattening the kine

To Yulefest we ride

Kinsmen we find

Blood bonds between us

Tie us by soul

Kith and kin mine

In our blood do we know

We farm in the Spring

We harvest in Fall

The snowclouds they come

We Winter in Hall

In Summer we sail

Southeast for to trade

When Christmen refuse us

On them do we prey!

Hammerhearts from the North

On the sea we are kings

None stand before us

For death do we bring

They say we are wrong

Convert! do they cry

With the Old Gods I stay

Rather than turn, I will die

Many will die with me

Easy I will not go

Against them I am sailing

Against them I row!

The Christ-God is fading

Odhinn is at hand

Thorr, he protects us

In this our new land

Thorr has won

The victory is ours

The stranger has lost

His followers cower

"Never Again!" I yell

At the top of my lungs

It has taken many lifetimes

We have finally won

Hail the Gods and Goddesses of the Folk!

Hildulf Hlorrithisson

Jarl, Gothi, LawSpeaker -- of the Raven's Troth AsaTru Kindred