Name: A Journey With Oak Staves
Duration: P00H04M31S
Description: On awakening, Thane calls for Cedric and recounts his experience. It is almost the middle of the night.

A Journey With Oak Staves

from Ale Whores of Mercia by SYMBEL

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On awakening, Thane calls for Cedric and recounts his experience. It is almost the middle of the night.

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I see ahead of me a bright light through the oak saplings
But my hands are clawing at nothing, I'm falling
Through trees, never ending branches, and earthen root.
Above the burning stave of Lagu - a thread of wyrd.
My shield-skin is scratched and bleeding, my hair is torn.
Knowing is never easy - the road is tough.
Now I'm in the dark of an open cave, with dark deep waters
swirling inside like an enormous eye.
As I bend down closer I am taken in,
on a journey with oaken staves,
I'll drink my fill.

( Newly embodied with a clear vision of his quest, the young man shudders with fear in private counsel with Cedric. The wanderer tells him that he has often felt wretched and sorrowful, bereft of his homeland, far from noble kinsmen, and has to bind in fetters his inner-most thoughts. A leader he must be )

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from Ale Whores of Mercia, released May 5, 2007

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Formed in 2001 to release pagan crust black metal.

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