Mountain
Reaching and climbing, with his fate revealed and his wisdom enhanced, the man puts his views and tenets to the test, forging the ascent of the mountain. What have his discoveries unveiled?
Boulder bound from woodland
Bore I arm-snake lore-led
Sorrow’s shadow shedding
Searching on, brow furrowed
Onward into unknown
Insight usurps onus
Lesser concepts consigned
Cold ageless truth boldened
Written in Dróttkvætt, a skaldic meter of praise Old Norse poetry
Blood falcon I follow
Fjord of the gods forging
Nigh hall of the highest
Heimdall of swords climbing
Behold my branch out reaching
Back to Urdr’s well and further
Borte fra, tilbake til asken Away, back to the ash (tree)
Bjarka brenner i hjarta The birch burns in the heart
Alm to mine of Mímir
Mind all, blind sight illume
Marrow halls of mountains
My fathers, in Ymir’s
Shower of wound fountain
My mothers, with them, of them
Kári’s breath kiss carries
Kin in echoes beckon