Svartedauen Songtext
von Woodscream

Stay away from old friends for your own sake
Close the door and keep all windows shut
Kindle fire and breed in your heart
Vain hopes that flame may protect from the plague

Blackened bodies are shrouded in snow
Dead eyes see icy kingdom of Hel
Souls betrayed northern gods will not go
Where their ancestors dwell

Asgardr′s locked, here come devastation days
No more roads lead to blessed Oden's realm
Human lives – new god owns half of them
And half was given to Aurgelmir′s race

Blackened bodies are shrouded in snow
Dead eyes see icy kingdom of Hel
Souls betrayed northern gods will not go
Where their ancestors dwell


Fear and death reign everywhere
In a vestry lies a priest
And unfinished stayed last prayer –
He has ceased to breathe

In 1349 the plague raging in Europe
Has reached the shores of Norway
The time of prosperity was over
No tears could cry the departed
The destitute found no shelter
And the deceased were left unburied
Shuddering with horror
People recalled the legends of Ragnarök
And appealed to once forsaken gods...
But the gods of North have denied them!

Blackened bodies are shrouded in snow
Dead eyes see icy kingdom of Hel
Souls betrayed northern gods will not go
Where their ancestors dwell

Run and hide – she is coming! Awake!
Don't you hear her merciless strides?
For no closed doors exist for the plague
And death has many a guise