Naglfar is a boat made entirely from the fingernails and toenails of the dead, which sets sail during Ragnarök.
lyrics
The scent of flesh on carrion winds, the stretching of flayed skin
Naglfar sails on rising tide, Muspelheim unleashed
Flames from the east, Surtr arise
Struck from the bodies of dishonored dead, their nails armor her prow
The hair of the fallen once moored her to shore, broken by coming of the final war
Crewed now by corpses of ten thousand men, they sail to Vigard at Surtr’s command
An Army of giants, a flame from the East, doom of the Gods, Naglfar the beast.
Ship of the dead, fate of all men
From the North we hear of a coming storm, from the East the flames rise high
Forests shake and mountains crumble, death awaits with hollow eyes
The scent of flesh on carrion winds, the stretching of flayed skin
Naglfar sails on rising tide, Muspelheim unleashed
Ship of the dead, fate of all men
Loki stands upon the prow, Lævateinn in hand
His killing staff will strike again, to land the final blow
The gods have come to face the tide, that rises on Asgard’s shores
Surtr’s hordes will cross the bridge, to the sounding of fell horns
For the death of Baldur, in the end we suffer
And O what words were whispered there, and that we should not know
For Odin knew the fates foretold, and how he loved his son
credits
from Fimbulwinter,
released February 12, 2017
Natt Sang is Rachael Burkle Ellison, Tony Ellison, and Greg Moore
Together since 2007, Natt Sang is an artist’s collective based on a small farm in Southwest Washington. Together they own
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