Amon Amarth; Runes To My Memory

If you take this song in its celtic context, you see the morality of an expansionist hero culture--not unlike a homeric hero. It has some community. He wants to be buried with his kin folk in a mound. He wants a rune raised in his memory with his story. He doesn't want to to be erased from the mind of his community. And he is hopeful for an afterlife. That was my first scan of the lyrics.

But then the moral anaomilies begin to stack up. Wanting runes raise to his memory tends to lack humility. And what was he doing in the land of the Rus? I am sure he was not there helping the poor, widows and orphans. I am sure he was not repairing homes with the sword he was clutching on the shoreline while anouncing his funeral preferences. He was probably using his sword to create the poor, to create widows and to create orphans. That said, he was promoting his community, while destroying another (ex.the land of Rus). I would put the lyric in 7th circle of Hell for violence against neighbors


Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Amon Amarth";
Album:"Twilight of the Thunder God";
Song:"Runes To My Memory";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Hell:Violence Against Neighbors";