If you want even earlier metal in poetry, check out Dream of the Rood.
It's an old Viking-adjacent take on Christianity that suggests that Jesus rode his cross down to hell and battled the armies of hell to liberate everyone that died before he could save them.
If you want even earlier metal in poetry, check out Dream of the Rood.
It's an old Viking-adjacent take on Christianity that suggests that Jesus rode his cross down to hell and battled the armies of hell to liberate everyone that died before he could save them.