sung in memory of sláine, the horned god. i. in an ancient, mythical, long-forgotten land a world whose legendary tales infuse our blood tir na nóg, protected by vast oceans of water a wonder, lush and green, and pleasing to the eye where maids and hags were strong and tough like steel where fights or feasts were joys felt to the bone ii. a young maiden, with skin as white as bone whose beauty was unsurpassed throughout the land cast on young sláine indomitable gaze of steel trapping his passions and heating his blood niamh stole from him far more than just his eye her gifts, their cost could make hard, dry eyes water iii. for his sin against the sessair king, sláine crossed the water banished to the lands where dragons crunched men's bones where for her rescue, medb, in anger, spat him in the eye bringing to bear on him the nightmares of her land where to lord weird slough feg they sacrificed their blood and defended his right for their souls so to steal...