[music and lyrics by Quorthon, Originally performed by Bathory]      One man rode the way through the woods   Down to Asa bay   Where dragon ships had sailed to sea   More times than one could say   To see with own eyes the wonder   People told of from man to man   The God of all almightyness   Had arrived from a foreign land      The rumours told of a man   Who had come from the other side the seas   Carrying gold cross around neck in chain   And spoke in strange tongue of peace   He had come with strange men in armour   Dressed in purple shirts and lace   Smelling not of beer but flowers   And with no hair in face      And the bold man carrying cross   Had told all one of Asa bay   The God of all man woman child had come   To them all save   And to thank Lord of Heaven   One should build to God a house   And to save one's soul from Hell   One should be baptised and say vows      A man of pride with the Hammer told new God   To build his house on own   And spoke loud of the Gods of their fathers   Not too long time gone   The rumours said the man with a beard like fire   And the Hammer in chain   By men in armour silenced was and by   Their swords was slain      Those who did not pay the one coin   Of four to man of new God   Whipped was twenty and put in chains then locked   By their neck to the log (To the log...)   And so all of Asa bay did build   A house of the cross   Every hour of daylight they did sweat   Limbs ached because faith does cost     
And on the day two hundred   There it stood white to the sky   The house of the God of the cross   Big enough to take two dragon ships inside   And all of Asa bay did watch   The wonder raise to the sky   Now must the God of the cross be pleased   And satisfied      Just outside the circle of the crowd   One old man did stand   He looked across the waters   And blotted the sun out of his eyes with one hand   And his old eyes could almost see   The dragon ships set sail   And his old ears could almost hear   Men of great numbers call out Oden's hail      And though he did know already   Though he turned face towards sky   And whispered silent words forgotten   Spoken only way up high   Now this house of a foreign God does stand   Now must they leave us alone   Still he heard from somewhere in the woods   Old crow of wisdom say   ...people of Asa land, it's only just begun...