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"The Immigrant Song" -- Meow!

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We come from the land of the ice and snow From the midnight sun, where the hotsprings flow
One of my favourite Led Zeppelin songs goes animated, with kittens. Great fun. But why would the page cite the lyrics as "where the hotsprings blow"? Silly kittens. (Spotted on MeFi and Blogdex.)

While watching the video, I realized that although the song is about Viking incursions into Great Britain way back when (pre-Middle Ages?), it just as easily could be about the European conquest of the Americas.

[Addendum: Regarding the lyrics to "The Immigrant Song", my friend Tana writes:

Actually it is "blow". Hot springs/geysers blow like fountains.
I stand (sit, really) corrected.]