| Amon Amarth – Töck's Taunt - Loke's Treachery Part 2 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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To add on to what kazaakas already mentioned about the song, I thought I'd add something that I found interesting: I think it's important that Loki changes his form into that of an old, ugly woman. He could have easily refused as himself to weep and had the same effect, but since Baldr was the Norse god of beauty, it makes Loki's criticism of the Aesir that much more pointed. While this is merely implied in the traditional canon, Amon Amarth make this connection more explicit by making reference to the god of beauty ostensibly ignoring the ugliness that exists in the world - "He never brought me pleasure or glee / So why would I help to set Balder free". |
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| In Flames – Lord Hypnos Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Varulf: The whispered lyrics in the place you indicated are a quote from William Wordsworth's Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Reflections on Early Childhood. It goes as follows: "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar:" That said, it seems like Lord Hypnos here functions more as a god of the dead and how death is like a state of lucid dreaming, as DeadAlone opined. It clearly deals with the soul as an immortal, perceptive entity. |
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