Sword in the Storm (The Saga of Earl Hakon, Protector of Norway)

(The Saga Of Earl Hakon, Protector Of Norway)

Come Skald sit thee with us

And tell us of the past

The deeds of viking warriors

In your songs they'll ever last

We long to hear of Hakon,

The Earl of Norway's shores

Or how he killed the Gravskin

And stood the Jomsburg force

He was born the son of Sigurd,

His father stabbed by royal hands

He escaped and turned a viking,

His frame spread across the lands

And on the day he faced the Gravskin,

Anger wished just like a burning flood

Hakon the maker of widows taking lives

As his blade drinks blood

The fish return now into the fjord,

The harvest rich Hakon we hail thy sword

Raising temples where a church did stand.

Odin smiles to praise the land

Sword in the storm, the rock in the battle

Hakon you stand and be Odin thy guide

Strong be thy arm, oh sword in the storm

Thor grant you strength to defend what is right

And when the viking of the Jomsburg

Set their sails against our shores

Strong in numbers famous heroes,

Hakon you fought them to the core

And in the middle of the bloodshed,

Standing strong I saw your hands reach for the sky

Calling for help in the turmoil,

Odin took your son as a sacrifice

The fish return now into the fjord,

The harvest rich Hakon we hail thy sword

Raising temples where a church did stand.

Odin smiles to praise the land

Sword in the storm, the rock in the battle

Hakon you stand and be Odin thy guide

Strong be thy arm, oh sword in the storm

Thor grant you strength to defend what is right

But in the end of people asked

For the reign of a Christian king

Betraying Hakon they soon forgot

The good his rule did bring

In his sleep, killed by a thrall

A hero's bitter end

Trygve's son was to succeed