Name: Lindisfarne
Channel: Rob Engvikson
Description: "Lindisfarne" is a song by Asatru.

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Viking Metal from Telfjord, England.

Asatru is a one man Viking Metal project. It was started in 2249RE (1999CE), originally with Steve Kelly (Hostile) on Bass & Mark Brawn on Drums. But after a lack of a live Keyboard player, the band is now a Recording only project. Hopefully if all goes to plan, with more interest in the band, a Keyboard player will come along, and Asatru will once again be a Live Unit.

Song Info

Genre

Metal • Death/Black Metal

Charts

Peak #135

Peak in subgenre #20

Author

Rob Engvikson

Rights

Rob Engvikson

Uploaded

January 10, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 5.5 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

Inspired by the 1st documented Viking raid on England.

Lyrics

Standing at the prow of my dragonship
It's the dawn of a day
A day we sail south to a foreign land
And I'm leading the way
Silently carving through the seas
We raise up our oars
The wind in our sails will guide us
To these foreign shores

Our lookout sights a monastery
On the shores up ahead
Surrounded by Christian monks
Who'll soon be dead
Pagan warriors jumping
Into shallow sea
Charging up the barren beach
All following me

Monks screaming all around
Their monastery burning to the ground
As we drowned their bodies in the sea so grey
Where was their god this day?

An expression of pain on a monks face
As I plunge in my sword
In his final desperate scream
He cries for his lord
Their home now burns around them
In the dusk of the day
Their land now plundered and bloodied 
As we sail away

Monks screaming all around
Their monastery burning to the ground
As we drowned their bodies in the sea so grey
Where was their god this day?