“Forth Eorlingas”

This sequence condenses in a very short time lots of elements from ancient myth. Disguised as an earthly battle, it is actually a divine battle, a battle of the skies.

The blazing light on top of a mountain is one of the most recurrent images of the axis mundi throughout the ages. For orcs, see this fragment from Beowulf:

þanon untydras ealle onwocon

eotenas ond ylfe ond orcneas

swylce gigantas þa wið gode wunnon

lange þrage he him ðæs lean forgeald

—Beowulf, Fitt I, vv. 111–14^[5]

Thence all evil broods were born,

ogres and elves and evil spirits

—the giants also, who long time fought with God,

for which he gave them their reward

—John R. Clark Hall tr. (1901)^[6]

F. Klaeber, Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment: A Translation Into Modern English Prose by John R. Clark Hall, Allen & Unwin, 1950.
[Bibtex]

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Orcus was a god of the underworld in Roman mythology. See this fragment (p.337)

The Roman poets use the names Dis, Orcus and Tartarus, as synonymous with Pluto, for the god of the Nether World. Hades was son of Saturn (Cronus) and Rhea, and brother of Jupiter (Zeus) and Neptune (Poseidon).

W. Smith and C. Anthon, A new classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology and geography: partly based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology., New York : Harper & Brothers, 1862.
[Bibtex]

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  author    = {Smith, William and Anthon, Charles},
  title     = {A new classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology and geography: partly based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology.},
  year      = {1862},
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