| Saapui hän keskelle hävityksen
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| kylään ammoin niin rauhaisaan.
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| Katot hehkuivat väreissä liekkien
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| ja veri rakkaiden peitti maan.
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| Vihan nostatti ja kiiri taivaisiin.
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| Niin moni lieni jo tiellä tuonelaan
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| vaan he viel’ei veisi häntä mukanaan.
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| Vaik’joukkonsa hän kokosi liki lyödyistä,
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| yksin raivonsa vavahdutti julmaa vastusta.
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| Kai satakunta ruumista hän polki allensa,
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| armoa ken sai kohtas’vain kirveen kaulalla.
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| «Miekanterät vapauttakaa,
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| kostuttakaa kylmää rautaa!
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| Suokaa heille vihastanne,
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| hukuttakaa hurmeen virtaan!»
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| «Kilpien taa piiloutukaa,
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| pelkurit jo perääntykää!
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| Ohitsemme jos mielitte
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| viimeinenkin hautaan saattakaa!»
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| Harvatpa kertomaan säästyivät,
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| siksi veri yltyi virtaamaan.
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| Niin vain aika koitti myös sankarin
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| kirjailtu miekka kourassaan
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| (vaan mies taipumaton veljet rinnallaan
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| tarustoissa elää ainiaan).
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| Amongst such ravage he arrived,
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| to a village once so calm.
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| Rooftops glowing the colours of flame
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| and the blood of the beloved on the ground.
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| Such anger did it raise to echo through all skies.
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| To beyond so many may have travelled
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| but not yet they were to take him along.
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| 'though gathering his forces from those nearly defeated,
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| alone it was his rage that shook the cruel enemy.
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| Hundreds of corpses he trampled underfoot,
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| his axe on their necks as a display of mercy.
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| «Blades of your swords shall be set free,
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| iron so cold shall now redden!
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| Grant them a glimpse of your hatred,
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| drown them into the streams of gore!»
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| «Behind your shields you shall now hide,
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| all you cowards better flee!
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| Should you past us desire to walk,
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| our last man standing you must strike to the ground!»
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| Very few were spared to tell this story,
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| so immensely the blood took to flowing.
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| And so the time of the warrior did come
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| with an embroided blade in its hand
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| (but a man unyielding with his brothers by his side
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| as a legend he lives forever). |