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bloody alice (of abergavenny) - mael mórdha lyrics

an advance force of normans arrived just before richard de clare, earl of pembroke, at the headland of baginbun where they were met by a hostile force of hiberno-norse and gaedhelic irish troops. the battle was turning against the heavily outnumbered norman troops when they stampeded a herd of cattle at the defenders who scattered as a result and were slaughtered. too late for alice of abergavenny whose bethrothed was k!lled. she took an axe to the seventy prisoners the normans had taken and sent them to their deaths, dumping their corpses over the cliff-edge

a screaming wraith atop a cliff
writhing in an -rg-sm of slaughter
one-by-one seventy men
did she depatch with an ever blunting blade of an axe

bl–dy alice of abergavenny
gripped by the rapture of gaedhelic gore
dripping slowly down the cliffside
seventy dead, yet she wants more
bl–dy alive of abergavenny
from what fashion house does your cloth come?
all natural fibres i’ll warrant
from the dye, to the cloth, to the thread from the dead

prisoners they were but no matter to her
her bloodl-st fuelled by the pain of her loss
for earlier that day her spouse’s corpse lay decaying
on the bl–dy field of battle

bl–dy alice of abergavenny
gripped by the rapture of gaedhelic gore
dripping slowly down the cliffside
seventy dead, yet she wants more
bl–dy alive of abergavenny
her body dripping from her labour and it’s fruits
as she gives so she taketh away

though he was of the invading force
and dispatched by the defenders
as so often is the case in life
a woman’s rational is replaced by madness

a screaming atop a cliff
blooddied br–sts for all to see
yet no man looked on her with l-st
as her needs fullfilled with a montain of corpses to her knees

- mael mordha lyrics

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