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The Music of Karl Donaldsson

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All files are MP3, with Karls unaccompanied voice (and what a voice it is too!). If you click on the song name it will initiate the download of the relevant song, or you can right click and select "save as" to save the file to your system. These files are Copyright of Karl Donaldsson and are hosted here with permission.

Song for Freyja

To the tune of "Todd'lin Hame," a tale of the War of the Aesir and Vanir - 2.37Mb - 2 Minutes 32 Seconds

Chorus:
Battle-worn Freyja, the warmth in the cold
Calls half of the Einherjar into her fold.
Sweet, loving Freyja, who sheds tears of gold
For she cannot find her husband, Oð.

Long, long ago, in a far-away land
Lived the bane of the Ases, who called themselves “Van.”
They knew how to work with the earth, sun and sky,
And they made it rain when their fields had run dry.

Chorus

One day came the Æsir unto the Van’s glade,
Each bore in his hand a spear or a blade.
As they crept through the forest, no sound had they heard
‘Til the sound of The Lady in the form a bird

Chorus

As the Æsir and Vanir moistened the ground
A peaceful solution needed be found
An exchange for the folk of the other side’s kin
Let the two become one and let both the sides win

Chorus

Together in Asgard did both the clans live
Each one to the other their strength did they give
With no single king or a queen on a throne
With the strength of sweet Freyja and the luck of her Stone

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