On a mountain top | |
By a clear wellspring | |
Laima weaves fate | |
Plaiting the thread | |
A golden spinning-wheel runs under her feet | |
Who will live and who will die | |
Where joy will be heard and where tears will be shed | |
One thread is long, the other is short | |
As she decides, so shall she weave | |
A cuckoo calls from a tree | |
Behind the window a young lady is weeping: | |
- "If only Laima would give me a son I would nurse and fondle him as best as I could!" | |
Don't cry young lady – Laima already knows | |
She weaves fate, plaiting the thread | |
For soon there will be time for a hero to come | |
For a hero to come and start his story | |
In your dream you will see what must be done | |
Catch a pike-fish, gut it and boil it | |
She who will eat that pike | |
Will soon become pregnant | |
Half man, half beast – the mare will bear a son | |
Like flint, like steel – undefeatable! | |
But everything will happen as Laima has decreed | |
There will be three who eat that pike | |
A son born from a lady, another from a maidservant | |
But loudest cried third one in the white mare's stable | |
Half man, half beast – the mare will bear a son | |
Like flint, like steel – undefeatable! | |
They will become like brothers | |
But one will be above them all | |
Not by years, but by days he will grow | |
Kurbads - son of the mare he will be called | |
No work will be too hard for him | |
On the third year they send him to hunt | |
On the seventh he boldly lifts his sword | |
He will roll boulders like they were peas | |
He's Kurbads - son of the mare |
On a mountain top | |
By a clear wellspring | |
Laima weaves fate | |
Plaiting the thread | |
A golden spinningwheel runs under her feet | |
Who will live and who will die | |
Where joy will be heard and where tears will be shed | |
One thread is long, the other is short | |
As she decides, so shall she weave | |
A cuckoo calls from a tree | |
Behind the window a young lady is weeping: | |
" If only Laima would give me a son I would nurse and fondle him as best as I could!" | |
Don' t cry young lady Laima already knows | |
She weaves fate, plaiting the thread | |
For soon there will be time for a hero to come | |
For a hero to come and start his story | |
In your dream you will see what must be done | |
Catch a pikefish, gut it and boil it | |
She who will eat that pike | |
Will soon become pregnant | |
Half man, half beast the mare will bear a son | |
Like flint, like steel undefeatable! | |
But everything will happen as Laima has decreed | |
There will be three who eat that pike | |
A son born from a lady, another from a maidservant | |
But loudest cried third one in the white mare' s stable | |
Half man, half beast the mare will bear a son | |
Like flint, like steel undefeatable! | |
They will become like brothers | |
But one will be above them all | |
Not by years, but by days he will grow | |
Kurbads son of the mare he will be called | |
No work will be too hard for him | |
On the third year they send him to hunt | |
On the seventh he boldly lifts his sword | |
He will roll boulders like they were peas | |
He' s Kurbads son of the mare |
On a mountain top | |
By a clear wellspring | |
Laima weaves fate | |
Plaiting the thread | |
A golden spinningwheel runs under her feet | |
Who will live and who will die | |
Where joy will be heard and where tears will be shed | |
One thread is long, the other is short | |
As she decides, so shall she weave | |
A cuckoo calls from a tree | |
Behind the window a young lady is weeping: | |
" If only Laima would give me a son I would nurse and fondle him as best as I could!" | |
Don' t cry young lady Laima already knows | |
She weaves fate, plaiting the thread | |
For soon there will be time for a hero to come | |
For a hero to come and start his story | |
In your dream you will see what must be done | |
Catch a pikefish, gut it and boil it | |
She who will eat that pike | |
Will soon become pregnant | |
Half man, half beast the mare will bear a son | |
Like flint, like steel undefeatable! | |
But everything will happen as Laima has decreed | |
There will be three who eat that pike | |
A son born from a lady, another from a maidservant | |
But loudest cried third one in the white mare' s stable | |
Half man, half beast the mare will bear a son | |
Like flint, like steel undefeatable! | |
They will become like brothers | |
But one will be above them all | |
Not by years, but by days he will grow | |
Kurbads son of the mare he will be called | |
No work will be too hard for him | |
On the third year they send him to hunt | |
On the seventh he boldly lifts his sword | |
He will roll boulders like they were peas | |
He' s Kurbads son of the mare |