The Flight of Sleipnir Wisdom Calls for Sacrifice (demo) 1. The Deceiver, the Blind, and the Beloved A congregation before the fairest of gods No ills or harm befalls him, a greater glory there's none The oaths, they had been made The promises had been sworn A lone tree forgotten, fair mistletoe so young Within the walls of Valhal, the Aesir challenge his might The deceiver persuades the blind one to extinguish his brothers light The blind one, he takes aim, with a single blow to the breast Deceptive instrument of death laid the beloved one to rest And all the Aesir's tongues had failed them No one could speak of their grief 2. At the Roots of the Ash Tree Onward to the roots of the ash tree to bargain my desire for wisdom And now I drink from the well And so i gouge out my eye The future I now behold My sons shall inherit the north Wisdom calls for sacrifice! I know where the treasure is hid Sing songs of Earth mother old Foes tremble beneath my craft The fate of man I foresee I saw the Aesirs destruction The burden weighed so heavy I never smiled again 3. Thrym's Bane What no one knows on Earth nor Heaven Mjolnir, hammer of the gods has been stolen Freya's magic, Loki does evoke, arrive in Utgard, wearing Freya's cloak "I have hid the hammer! Fight leagues below the Earth Bring me Freya's hand in marriage and the hammer, I will return" Heimdal saw, with Vanir sight Thor adorned bridal white For this journey, I set aside my shame With mighty Mjolnir, I shall be Thrym's bane "Why do Freya's eyes burn with fire Red gold rings, wretched sister's desire Thrym summons the Earth son's hammer In Freya's lap, consecrate us together!" Alas you fools I bear the mighty Mjolnir! Through flesh and bone I'll cleave you all asunder Thrym you wonder at your false bride's thirst Thrym, mightiest of giants you shall fall first Amongst the battered corpses of giants, stands Thor, son of the Earth Wielding mighty Mjolnir, bloodstained hammer Glorious triumph in the halls of the Aesir!