Across The Rainbow Bridge Lyrics

Lyric discussion by clevus 

Cover art for Across The Rainbow Bridge lyrics by Amon Amarth

and also its "so many faces died with sword in hand" not "so many friends"

Wrong. By saying "so many friends with sword in hand" they mean that those friends died fighting and this is the purpose of a viking warrior: dying in a battle.

Also if you look at the next sentence it begins with "but"; meaning it must have an opposite statement from the previous sentence.