The Challenge of Thor (Edward Elgar)
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- Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-11-30). Score information: Letter, 15 pages, 189 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: The Challenge of Thor
Composer: Edward Elgar
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Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1896
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Original text and translations
English text
I am the God Thor,
I am the War God,
I am the Thunderer!
Here in my Northland,
My fastness and fortress,
Reign I for ever!
Here amid icebergs
Rule I the nations;
This is my hammer,
Mjölner the mighty;
Giants and sorcerers
Cannot withstand it!
These are my gauntlets
Wherewith I wield it,
And hurl it afar off;
This is my girdle;
Whenever I brace it,
Strength is redoubled!
The light thou beholdest
Stream through the heavens
In flashes of crimson,
Is but my red beard
Blown by the night-wind
Affrighting the nations!
Jove is my brother;
Mine eyes are the lightning;
The wheels of my chariot
Roll in the thunder.
The blows of my hammer
Ring in the earthquake!
Force rules the world still,
Has ruled it, shall rule it;
Meekness is weakness,
Strength is triumphant
Over the whole earth
Still is it Thor’s-day.
Thou art a God too,
O Galilean!
And thus single-handed
Unto the combat,
Gauntlet or Gospel,
Here I defy thee!