Crater Of The Valkyries

I have not tasted bread for weeks

Snow is what I eat and drink

My saga the saga of hunger and need

The father of my father ancestors of my kin

The skald told the story of my house

Here I lie like a dead man

A weak wreck of no worth

At the Crater of the Valkyries

The angels of Odin my master

Take the dead home from battle

To Valhalla

Here I am as a nobody

Awaiting the beating of wings

Of the godly women who fill the sky

Black wings on their shoulders

Helmets hide white faces

They will take me to Valhalla

Not as a warrior

Hall of Od

Skald I be

Skald through the runes

Let Fate decide

If you shall live or die

Fall into the volcano

Or still suffer under the stars

Skald do you see the raven

Munin is its name

It turns the rune

That would have you

Fall into the flame

Skald do you see

The raven by your side

As you throw the runes

To settle life or death

Are you still to see

The blue of the sky

Or shall you fall into the fire

Of the mighty volcano Hekla

The raven turns

The rune of your fate

You shall live for vengeance

To have justice done

Return to Reykjavik

To the hall of your king

Show them what you have suffered

Be the man you were

Father of my father

Ancestors of my kin

You had mead to drink

And meat to eat

You lived in crafted halls

And sacrificed to the gods

You sailed black longships

With red shields and dragon heads

Here I lie like a dead man

A weak wreck of no worth

At the Crater of the Valkyries

The angels of Odin my master

Take the dead home from battle

To Valhalla

Here I am as a nobody

Awaiting the beating of wings

Of the godly women who fill the sky

Black wings on their shoulders

I am the memory of all

Helmets hide white faces

They will take me to Valhalla

Not as a warrior

Hall of Od

Skald I be