"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." (Campbell)
The last example is the "Immigrant Song" which references the Vikings and Norse mythology. The Immigrant Song is from Led Zeppelin III album. The song was written based off a concert the band was going to do in Reykjavik, Iceland, the day before they arrived all the civil servants went on strike and the gig was going to be canceled. The university prepared a concert hall for the band and the concert ended up being one of the most memorable experiences for the band. The band wrote the song in honor of the people of Iceland. Robert Plant wanted to connect their experience to the mythology of that culture (Songfacts). The lyrics, "Valhalla I am coming." (Immigrant Song, Plant) are from the perspective of Vikings rowing west from Scandinavia in search of new lands to conquer and the Old Norse religion they believed in “Fight the horde, sing and cry, Valhalla, I am coming!”. Valhalla is the hall in Asgard in which Odin rules (the Norse supreme deity and creator of the cosmos and humans (American Heritage Dictionary) and the souls of the fallen warriors are taken by the Valkyries, which are spirits of war to that great hallway. "The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands. To fight the hordes singing and crying. 'Valhalla, I am coming!'" refers to the Vikings who would travel to far away places to pillage and plunder in order to claim the new lands for themselves. Similar to Stairway to Heaven, this song connects to Campbell’s third function of mythology the sociological prospect, “the validation and maintenance of an established order." (Campbell) and Campbell’s first function of mythology, the mystical/metaphysical prospect, in which the myth is meant to make people experience the powerful feeling of the divine in their lives. (Campbell). The ultimate goal for a Viking was to die valiantly in battle because to die valiantly meant his soul would go to Valhalla where he would become the Einherjar, the chosen warriors to fight in the oncoming battle of Rangnarok, the end of the cosmos in Norse mythology (Encyclopedia Mythica). In short, if a warrior died with great bravery on the battle fields it would allow him to move past the physical world into the ultimate realm of heaven as well as battle against the ultimate evil, the doom of the Gods, Rangnarok. The Norse put a lot of weight in valor and honor and the most honorable death imaginable for them was death in battle. The song was meant to not only honor a culture but by weaving a very unique sound to underscore the lyrics it connected the audience to that culture as well as once again fulfilling the sociological function that mythologies help maintain social norms and behavior and the mystical/metaphysical function which is to evoke in the individual a sense of grateful, affirmative awe of why humans exist (Campbell).