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THE WAR-SONG OF THE VIKINGS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let loose the hounds of war
Last Line: Swords of valhalla!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Swords; Vikings; War


Let loose the hounds of war,
The whirling swords!
Send them leaping afar,
Red in their thirst for war;
Odin laughs in his car
At the screaming of the swords!

Far let the white-ones fly,
The whirling swords!
Afar off the ravens spy
Death-shadows cloud the sky.
Let the wolves of the Gael die
'Neath the screaming swords!

The Shining Ones yonder
High in Valhalla
Shout now, with thunder:
Drive the Gaels under,
Cleave them asunder—
Swords of Valhalla!





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