Mam Tor Your torso shivers As the backbone of our land Under the weight Of a now plagued country The old ways Elsewhere long gone Still linger in these parts The ways of our people Whose ancient mighty fort Crowned your glorious slopes And whose dead Dwell in your barrows We will honour them Forever We will hail your mighty heights And the caverns...Learn More

If you find yourself On the tip of an enemy sword Pull them close to you Look in to their eyes and laugh Look to the future See they, children of the Engla Blood of the Land For a drop of blood That falleth to soil Means you will live In the Land that you love Forever! You will look back Be among ancestors The Fathers of Albion...Learn More

Then he who thought wisely of Deeply contemplates this dark life Wise in mind, remembers he, the battles of old Time has departed Grown dark under cover of night As if it were never there Powerful spears took earls away Weapons greedy for slaughter Storms now batter these stone cliffs A falling snowstorm binds the Earth The tummult of winter Shade...Learn More

Stretch forth! Stretch forth! From the south to the north From the east to the west, stretch forth! stretch forth! Stregnthen thy stakes, and lengthen thy cords The world is a tent for the world's true lords! England sowed the glorious seed In her wise old laws, and her pure old creed And her stout old heart, and her plain old tongue And her...Learn More

Bereft of friends, awakens he Dark waves before him Frost and snow Mingled with hail fall His wounded heart is heavier Painful for the beloved Sorrow is renewed Spirits of the seafarers bring not, familiarity there Care is renewed for the one who must Send a weary mind over the bound waves A mind in darkness, pondering life How they abandoned the...Learn More

Shattered by Fate! The castles rend asunder The work of giants moldereth away Its towers crumble Aquae Sulis, in ruin The mortar white with frost The mighty men who built it, they of giants renown Departed hence, undone by death, are held Fast in the earth's embrace While overhead for living men A hundred generations pass Long this red wall, now...Learn More

Learned we in former-days Of glory-blessed heroes The thegns of the Lord Their force did not fail In the war When banners clashed together Illustrious men upon the earth Bold folk-leaders on the fields of reckoning Doughty Warriors, Battle-Brave! When shield and hand defended their crown When all man's land was wound in murder The enemy's deceit...Learn More

Then did they of proud spirit split the shield-wall Men of King Aethelstan, men of honour Battle shields were hewn with the remnants of hammers Befitting their noble descent That they should, defend their land In battle against each hostile people Horde and home! Horde and home! The enemy perished The field flowed with thе blood of warriors Till...Learn More

Still is a valley Surrounded by a forest of oaks Bespiring deeply With the breath of our ancestors A knot of roots Hold steadfast the earth Bonds that link a nation Foregoing generations Eternal, unswayed Roots of heritage Pertain to the valley Roots of hope Growing strong Entwined in the land A valley thick with oaks Its villages silenced By the...Learn More

Northern European woodcut Wandering on a moonlit night One who, having once Looked round, walks on And then turns no more his head Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread Casting the Runes!...Learn More

Then he ordered each of his warriors his horse to loose Then did Brithnoth begin his men to bestow He rode up and counselled them, his soldiers he taught Then stood forth on the strand and sternly spake The messenger from the Sea men, delivered his tidings Brithnoth made answer - his buckler he grasped Brandished his slender spear - and...Learn More

Sacred water flows Through the veins of our sacred land Drink of this and take thy fill For the water falls by the wizards will Old man of the forest Cloaked in the lore of the land Loyal guardian Of our fog smothered isle Among the contorted roots Of English Oaks In the caverns of the northern kingdom Dwells the sleeping army Here they lie In...Learn More