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