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Behold it was night and the wind and the rushing of snow on the wind	A
And the boom of the sea and the moaning of desolate pines that were thinned	B
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And the halls of fierce Erick of Sogn with the clamor of wassail were filled	C
With the clash of great beakers of gold and the reek of the ale that was spilled	C
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For the Yule was upon them the Yule and they quaffed as from skulls of the slain	D
And sware out round oaths in hoarse wit and long quaffing sware laughing again	E
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Unharnessed from each shaggy throat that was hot with mad lust and with drink	F
The burly wild skins and barbaric tossed rent from their broad golden link	F
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For the Yule was upon them the Yule and the waes heils were shouted and roared	G
By the Berserks the eaters of fire and the Jarls round the ponderous board	G
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And huge on the hearth that writhed hissing and bellied a bullion of gold	H
The yule log the half of an oak from the mountains was royally rolled	H
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And its warmth was a glory that glared and smote red through the width of the hall	I
To burnish wild boar skins and swords and great war axes hung on the wall	I
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Till the maidens who hurried big goblets that bubbled excessive with barm	J
Blushed rose to the gold of thick curls when the shining steel mirrored each charm	J
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And Erick's one hundred gray skalds at the nod and the beck of the king	K
With the stormy rolled music of an hundred wild harps made the castle re echoing ring	K
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For the Yule for the Yule was upon them and battle and rapine were o'er	L
And Harold the viking the red and his brother lay dead on the shore	M
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For the harrier Harold the red and his merciless brother black Ulf	N
With their men on the shore of the wintery sea were carrion cold for the wolf	O
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Behold for the battle was finished the battle that boomed in the day	P
With the rumble of shields that were shocked and the shatter of spears that did slay	P
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With the hewing of swords that fierce lightened hot smoking with riotous blood	Q
And the crush of the mace that was crashed through the helm and the brain that withstood	R
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And the cursing and shrieking of men at their gods at their gods whom they cursed	S
Till the caves of the ocean re bellowed and storm on their struggling burst	S
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And they fought in the flying and drifting and silence of covering snow	T
Till the wounded that lay with the dead with the dead were stiff frozen in woe	T
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And they fought and the mystical flakes that were clutched of the maniac wind	A
Drave sharp on the eyes of the kings made the sight of their warriors blind	A
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And they fought and with leonine wrath were they met till the battle god Thor	M
From his thunder wheeled chariot rolled making end of destruction and war	M
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And they fell like twin rocks of the mountain the ruinous whirlwinds have hurled	U
From their world rooted crags to the ocean below with the strength of the world	U
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And lo not in vain their loud vows on the stern iron altars of War	M
Their flesh their own flesh yea the victim their blood the libation to Thor	M
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But a glitter and splendor of arms out of snow and the foam of the seas	V
And the terrible ghosts of the vikings and the gauntleted Valkyries	V
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Yea the halls of fierce Erick of Sogn with the turmoil of wassail are filled	C
With the steam of the flesh of the boar and the reek of the ale that is spilled	C
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For the Yule and the vict'ry are theirs and the waes heils are shouted and roared	G
By the Berserks the eaters of fire and the Jarls 'round the ponderous board	G

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