Vae Victus Lyrics


Arrogance and treachery

Hermóðr smiles envisioning their deaths

A calamity of errors

Hubris impels them through the green hell

Vengeful son of Sigimer

Funnels the legions to bloody demise

Unmasking of the wolf

Berengar (Arminius) readies the tribes to strike

Years and years in captivity

Revolting camaraderie

Birthed is retribution

Amidst the enslavers

(chorus)

Legio Septima Decima

Vae Victis

Legio Duodevigesima

Vae Victis

Legio Undevigesima

Woe to the vanquished

Berzerking savage murder

Piling their sons in stacks of dead

The pagan forest drinks their blood

Defeat total, humiliation

(chorus)

Gruesome trophies

Heathen rituals

Strip the metal from the dead

Leave them naked

Rotting corpses

Graveless soldiers

Wolves are fed

Demoralized fighters

Surrender complete

World's best army

Has faced its defeat

Toy with survivors

Hack off their heads

Skulls kept as totems

Disgracing their dead

Centurians, nail them

Nail them to trees

Burn the commanders alive

Laugh at their pleas