Reading a translation from Gaulish to English makes the meaning of this song clear - it's a salute to the Helvetii, the Gallic tribe that inhabited what is now modern Switzerland (and the root of the word Helvetia, the national personification of modern Switzerland).
Incidentally, the band name comes from a piece of ancient graffiti found on a vessel from Mantua in Lombardy, which in Etruscan lettering reads 'eluveitie', and is believed to be the Etruscan rendering of the Celtic word '(h)elvetios' meaning 'the Helvetian', perhaps referring to a man of Helvetian origins living in Mantua at the time.
Reading a translation from Gaulish to English makes the meaning of this song clear - it's a salute to the Helvetii, the Gallic tribe that inhabited what is now modern Switzerland (and the root of the word Helvetia, the national personification of modern Switzerland).
Incidentally, the band name comes from a piece of ancient graffiti found on a vessel from Mantua in Lombardy, which in Etruscan lettering reads 'eluveitie', and is believed to be the Etruscan rendering of the Celtic word '(h)elvetios' meaning 'the Helvetian', perhaps referring to a man of Helvetian origins living in Mantua at the time.