Oden Flames
(hooo-aaah) Nine long nights on the gallows tree
Hanging above the rootless sea
Wounded by my own iron spear No bread to taste,
no horn to cheer Peering downward in the frost Paying out what
must be lost (haaa-urgh)
Oden, Allfather, bearer of the spear
One eye given to the water clear
Take up the runes with a roaring cry
From the branch where the raven flies
Two black wings upon my bone Thought and memory far from home
Mimir drinks from the stony deep
While the roots of the ash tree weep (ohhh-yaah)
Staves of cedar, carved in red
Knowledge stolen from the dead
Fall from the bough! (aaah-rohh)
Oden, Allfather, bearer of the spear
One eye given to the water clear
Take up the runes with a roaring cry
From the branch where the raven flies!
Nine songs learned, the world is wide (huu-aaah) Walk the ash grove,
open-eyed