Urd

Drink from Urd, and sing its songIts mead of knowledge sweet and strongThe mists of time and port of callThe beginning and the end of allStar borne lay with wives of menTheir daughters great with etin kinAncients seed the darken kindTo hang in silence nights all nineThe elder blood in fiery veinUnleash the brood of Odin's faneTo trample southern kind asunderAnd bring the light of distant thunderErect halls beyond the seaTo honour blood of Heimdall's threeTill the land of golden yieldTo forge the steel and oaken shieldDrink and laugh o sons of highLay with maidens 'neath the skyForge the race of Northern kindThe fates of gods and men entwinedGreat kingdoms rose in golden timesAnd mighty winds of northern skiesThe winter frost of yearly timeYield summer rain and warmth sublimeThe god's gift came in flash of fireA map of heaven to Asgard's spireBlack iron forged in Volund's nameAncestral bond of blood and flameAnd all shall point to northern starWhere lodestone guides from lands afarPrimordial home of gods and menTo never leave from mortal kenWhen sudden earth and mountain splitAnd walls of ice from north emitAnd nations fall and seas ariseA reign of fire from darkened skiesBoreal children scatter farThe high ones weep between the starsFor all they wrought, and all they forgedFell deep within dark earthen gorgeTo eternal lay in ice and snowHeld whispered runes in heathen glowFor those of kind, to find the sameThe one-eye's secret throne to reignAnd now lost children flee their baneTo time of old, the stone of flameTo fill the veins with ancient fireReshape the world on martyr's pyre