Sir Balin The Song Remains The Same

In the movie The Song Remains The Same (1976) Robert Plant emerges from a motorized longboat with the flag of the Welsh as much Arthurian myth is found in their Mabinogion (c.1350-1410) a book containing the earliest prose stories in British history. With his sword symbolic of the paganism of Norse mythology Plant disembarks as a representative bard in sympathy with ‘Immigrant Song’ as Vikings invaded and remained becoming later generations of Britons but also with Scandinavia’s 13th century Edda a written text recording a much earlier hypnotic oral tradition which wasn’t Arthurian Christianity but did rely on a similarly expert tongue’s lilting sounds to program an audience enthralled. Bonham called his sticks ‘trees’ and in Norse mythology Thor with his hammer mjölnir was ‘the hammer of the gods’ that is god of lightning thunder storms sacred groves and trees. The lilting hypnotic lyrics of Led Zeppelin’s pastorale ‘Immigrant Song’ were hammered in by Bonham’s ‘trees’ which weren’t the nailing of the coffin of Viking paganism but rather the hammering of the band into Satanism’s ‘eternal unendurable pain’ which is God’s punishment for the evil.