Song | Grimnismol (Ballad Of Grimnir) |
Artist | Folkearth |
Album | Drakkars in the Mist |
Heerfather-in chains | |
Tortured by an unworthy king | |
Eight nights between two fires | |
A boy feels sympathy for him | |
In exchange for a single drink | |
(The boy is granted knowledge of the worlds | |
His father ignorant to the real nature of his binded guest | |
Knowledge of which will too late come to him) | |
Thor shall ever in Thruthheim dwell | |
Balder’s home Breithablik is called | |
Himinbjorg residence of Heimdall | |
Vithi is Vidar’s land—slayer of the wolf | |
Skoll and Hati the soon and moon will devour | |
Thus bidding the will of Hrothvitnir | |
Ravens y forth memory and thought | |
Bring me news of what happens in the world | |
Far famed fighters of old | |
Freki, Geri, who sit by me in my hall | |
Feast on my food, satisfy your lust | |
Wine is my food and drinking alike, alas! | |
Valgrind stands, the Sacred Gate | |
And behind are the holy doors | |
Old is the gate but few there are | |
Who can tell how it tightly is locked | |
Five hundred doors and forty there are | |
I wean, in Valhall’s walls | |
Eight hundred fighters through one door-fare | |
When to war with the Wolf they go | |
The best of trees, must Yggdrasil be | |
Skithblathnir best of boats | |
Of all the Gods Othin is the greatest | |
And Sleipnir the best of steeds | |
Bifrost of bridges, Bragi of skalds | |
Hobrok of hawks and Garm of hounds | |
Grim is my nae, wanderer am I | |
Ruler, Helmet-bearer, Hor the high one | |
A single name have I never had | |
Since first among men I fared | |
Allfather, Valfather, Rider, Grimnir I am | |
Siegfather, Overthrower, the Hooded, Flaming-Eyed…King Geiroth sat and had his sword on his knee, half drawn from its sheath | |
But when he heard that Othin was come thither, then he rose up and sought to take Othin from the fire | |
The sword slipped form his hand and fell with the hilt down | |
The king stumbled and fell forward, and the sword pierced him through and slew him | |
Then Othin vanished, but the boy long ruled there as king… |
Heerfatherin chains | |
Tortured by an unworthy king | |
Eight nights between two fires | |
A boy feels sympathy for him | |
In exchange for a single drink | |
The boy is granted knowledge of the worlds | |
His father ignorant to the real nature of his binded guest | |
Knowledge of which will too late come to him | |
Thor shall ever in Thruthheim dwell | |
Balder' s home Breithablik is called | |
Himinbjorg residence of Heimdall | |
Vithi is Vidar' s land slayer of the wolf | |
Skoll and Hati the soon and moon will devour | |
Thus bidding the will of Hrothvitnir | |
Ravens y forth memory and thought | |
Bring me news of what happens in the world | |
Far famed fighters of old | |
Freki, Geri, who sit by me in my hall | |
Feast on my food, satisfy your lust | |
Wine is my food and drinking alike, alas! | |
Valgrind stands, the Sacred Gate | |
And behind are the holy doors | |
Old is the gate but few there are | |
Who can tell how it tightly is locked | |
Five hundred doors and forty there are | |
I wean, in Valhall' s walls | |
Eight hundred fighters through one doorfare | |
When to war with the Wolf they go | |
The best of trees, must Yggdrasil be | |
Skithblathnir best of boats | |
Of all the Gods Othin is the greatest | |
And Sleipnir the best of steeds | |
Bifrost of bridges, Bragi of skalds | |
Hobrok of hawks and Garm of hounds | |
Grim is my nae, wanderer am I | |
Ruler, Helmetbearer, Hor the high one | |
A single name have I never had | |
Since first among men I fared | |
Allfather, Valfather, Rider, Grimnir I am | |
Siegfather, Overthrower, the Hooded, FlamingEyed King Geiroth sat and had his sword on his knee, half drawn from its sheath | |
But when he heard that Othin was come thither, then he rose up and sought to take Othin from the fire | |
The sword slipped form his hand and fell with the hilt down | |
The king stumbled and fell forward, and the sword pierced him through and slew him | |
Then Othin vanished, but the boy long ruled there as king |