Vidar’s Vengeance

Vidar’s Vengeance is a 4:32 English-language Mythic Harmonies battle song about Víðarr answering Odin’s death at Ragnarök. Its verses move from the silent son in shadow to Fenrir’s jaws, the famous shoe and a final declaration that Víðarr survives. Play the exact recording above, then read the complete released words below.

The song follows one well-attested mythic outcome—Víðarr avenges Odin—but it chooses one version of how the wolf dies and surrounds it with modern images of iron will, oath, storm and rebirth. This music fiche keeps the performance at the centre while distinguishing the medieval witnesses from the songwriter’s additions.

Vidar’s Vengeance at a Glance

Artist	Mythic Harmonies
Type	Modern original battle song
Duration	4:32
Language	English
Core scene	Víðarr avenges Odin by killing Fenrir
Defining object	The special shoe placed against the wolf’s jaw in Snorri’s version
Official video	YouTube
Exact release	Spotify · Apple Music

What Is the Vidar’s Vengeance Song About?

The first verse introduces a silent son after his father’s fall. The chorus names both sides of the exchange—“Vidar’s vengeance, Fenrir’s death”—before the second verse gives the shoe and jaws. A fragmented bridge then turns the scene into ash, oath and flame, and the final chorus carries Víðarr beyond the battle.

That progression is why the track is more than a general Víðarr biography. It owns a precise dramatic moment: the 4:32 English recording in which silence becomes action after Odin is swallowed. Víðarr Koma remains the separate 2:48 stylized Norse song of approaching footsteps and “Víðarr comes”; the Fenrir guide keeps the full myth and source comparison.

Who Is Víðarr in the Sources?

Snorri calls Víðarr the silent god and describes him as nearly as strong as Thor. Grímnismál gives him the land of Viði, overgrown with brush and high grass, from which the god is said to descend to avenge his father. Other prose tradition identifies him as a son of Odin and the giantess Gríðr.

It is useful to resist turning those short notices into a complete divine job description. “God of silence and vengeance” is a convenient modern label, not a formal office listed by the sources. Nor does Víðarr literally stand inactive through every surviving story: he appears at Ægir’s feast in Lokasenna, where Odin tells him to give Loki a place and pour the wolf’s father a drink.

The song’s “coiled patience” and “iron will” are character writing. They make sparse source material legible in performance, but they do not prove that Víðarr existed for only one predetermined purpose across all pre-Christian Scandinavian traditions.

Odin’s Death and the Start of the Revenge

Both poetic and prose witnesses connect Víðarr’s decisive act to Odin’s death. At Ragnarök, Fenrir is free; Odin fights the wolf and is swallowed. Víðarr then advances against Fenrir. The father-son sequence is therefore not invented by the track, even though “For Odin’s blood, the wolf shall break” is modern English.

The original page said Fenrir had been chained “since the beginning.” The sources instead narrate a sequence in which the gods raise the young wolf, attempt different bonds and finally deceive him into testing Gleipnir. The binding belongs to mythic time, but not simply to the first moment of creation.

The Shoe and Fenrir’s Jaws

Snorri’s Gylfaginning supplies the scene most listeners recognize. Víðarr has a thick shoe. He places one foot on Fenrir’s lower jaw, grips the upper jaw and tears the wolf’s mouth apart. Snorri explains that the shoe is assembled from the pieces people cut from the toe and heel of their footwear, adding that anyone wishing to help the Æsir should throw those scraps away.

The song condenses that prose into “A mighty shoe, upon the jaws.” “He tears the beast with ancient laws” has no equivalent law in the account; it is a rhyme that gives the act ceremonial weight. Likewise, the shoe is not called iron, and the surviving prose does not say every offcut from all eternity automatically entered one physical object.

There Is More Than One Version of Fenrir’s Death

The jaw-tearing episode should not erase the poetic alternative. Vǫluspá describes Víðarr striking at the beast with a weapon and driving a sword into the wolf’s heart. Textual details and interpretations are not identical across witnesses, but the crucial point is clear: medieval Norse tradition does not preserve only one cinematic death scene.

Vidar’s Vengeance deliberately chooses Snorri’s shoe-and-jaws version because it gives the song a distinctive physical image. That is a legitimate adaptation when the choice is named. Presenting it as the single uncontested account would be less accurate.

Víðarr Survives, but Ragnarök Is Not Total Extinction

Víðarr does survive Ragnarök. Vafþrúðnismál and Snorri also name Váli, Móði and Magni among the divine survivors, while Baldr and Hǫðr return. The human pair Líf and Lífþrasir endure as well. “Nearly the entire pantheon falls” therefore overstates the source picture.

The renewed earth rises green from the sea in Vǫluspá; saying it simply rises “from the ashes” imports the song’s fire imagery into a different description. “Vidar lives, through endless night” is best read as the final hook of this track—not a claim that the renewed world remains an eternal night.

Silence, Oath and Rebirth in the Song

Three of the track’s strongest ideas are creative additions. “The silence speaks” turns Víðarr’s epithet into an audible turning point. “Silent oath” supplies a vow that no surviving stanza gives him. “A god reborn” interprets his movement through destruction as personal rebirth, although the sources simply say that he survives and inhabits the renewed world.

Those additions make the composition coherent: silence becomes voice, loss becomes revenge, revenge becomes endurance. They belong to Mythic Harmonies’ dramatic reading and should be appreciated as such rather than backdated into a Viking Age creed about vengeance.

Is Vidar’s Vengeance an Authentic Viking Song?

No. It is a modern English-language composition inspired by medieval Norse sources. The YouTube title’s genre wording does not make the words a historical chant. No runic inscription or manuscript preserves this melody, rhyme scheme, oath or refrain. The factual core—Odin’s death, Víðarr’s revenge and survival—is documented; the performance that connects those points is new.

Vidar’s Vengeance Lyrics

The complete released English text is preserved exactly below.

In shadow deep, the silent son,
His father’s fall, the end begun.
With iron will, he walks the flame,
A god of night, no fear, no shame.

Vidar’s vengeance, Fenrir’s death,
Steel and fire, the final breath.
In Ragnarök, the earth shall shake,
For Odin’s blood, the wolf shall break.

A mighty shoe, upon the jaws,
He tears the beast with ancient laws.
The silence speaks, the night is torn,
A god reborn, through oath and storm.

Vidar’s vengeance, Fenrir’s death,
Steel and fire, the final breath.
In Ragnarök, the earth shall shake,
For Odin’s blood, the wolf shall break.

Ashes fall… the gods arise…
Odin’s son… with fire in eyes…
Silent oath… forever bound…
Fenrir falls… into the ground.

Vidar’s vengeance, Fenrir’s death,
Gods and men draw final breath.
In Ragnarök, the skies ignite,
The silent god shall win the fight.

Silent god… eternal might…
Vidar lives… through endless night.

Sources Behind Víðarr’s Revenge

• Edward Pettit, trans., The Poetic Edda, especially Vǫluspá, Grímnismál, Vafþrúðnismál and Lokasenna.
• Anthony Faulkes, ed., Snorri Sturluson, Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning, for Víðarr’s strength, shoe, jaw-tearing, Fenrir and the post-Ragnarök survivors.
• Viking Society edition of Skáldskaparmál, for Gríðr and the wider prose tradition.

Where to Listen

Watch the official 4:32 Vidar’s Vengeance video. The matching Mythic Harmonies single also runs 4:32 on Spotify and Apple Music. Artist, title and duration agree exactly across all three services.