I’ve got to credit this lyric to the creator of the British History podcast. Jamie Jeffers came up with the great line, “The Danes came knocking on the doors of Dover” and I had to use it!

Wulfstan’s our finest fighter when they call up the fyrd

It’s a call of duty and he’s a man of his word

He’s his mothers glory, he’s his fathers son

It’s a decades journey and he owes no one.

Wulfstan

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Can you feel it?

Will you die here?

Can you see the beacons fire?

Is this life so swiftly over?

I see you drowning

In my dreams.

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For a child, a single day seems to last a week

He learned how to fight, when not to speak

He grew up, tough as hammered nails in oak.

He grew up, dark and tall and took the family yoke

Wulfstan

She hit him like a rising sun when he was seventeen

He was a planet in her orbit until a swift blade came between

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Can you feel it

Do you hear it now?

Can you see the beacons fire?

The Danes came knocking on the doors of Dover.

When they move on us it will be all over.

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Moon on the water reflected raiders from the sea

Longships came a-Viking on the breath of a Valkyrie

The watcher on the tower summoned up the fyrd

It’s a call of duty and he’s a man of his word

Wulfstan

She hit him like a rising sun when he was seventeen

He was a planet in her orbit until a swift blade came between

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Wulfstan saw the flash of swords, his face lost all its colour

He showed the Norse his steely blade, then sent them to Valhalla

Wulfstan

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The Norse swept back out to sea and left a hell on fire

The village placed their dead upon a slowly burning pyre

Wulfstan

-Bridge-

Sometimes in the darkness

When his family sleeps

Deep inside this strong man

A young boy weeps

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There’s no place here for the old, death is just a sword away

He’ll die for this village but he doesn’t count each day

He is our finest fighter when they call up the fyrd

It’s a call of duty and he’s a man of his word

Wulfstan

Wulfstan

Copyright: Rod de Lisle