Wergild

Their honor drove them into battle

Taking the lives of the weak

K9lling for conquest and power

Life for the English was bleak

The Vikings...

Murder was handled by wergild

Death was their only holy feast

Vikings were great and fearless warriors

The bloodshed and killing would never cease

The Battle...

To die, in battle

Would send them to Valhalla

The fear, of death

Would destroy them eternally

Valhalla, was the only afterlife

Charging into battle

With no pain or life

If they died in fear

They would fall to hell

Never to fight again

Never to drink as well

The war, with the English

The dragon ship brought fear throughout the land

King Alfred, was the only hope

To free England from their bloody hand

King Alfred defeated the Vikings

He freed the English from their bloody hand

The Vikings moved on further north

To conquer a far more weaker land

Wergild...