Berserkr [English translation]

Torches light up the night

Downpour between mighty fir trees

The time was come for the ritual hunt

Alone he left his company

Fulfilling the Norse pact

Body full of the Valkyries mead

He shall bestow the beast its death

A bloody sacrifice to our all-knowing god

Bestial bersekers in wolf and bear-skin

They were Odins messengers

In the grove he stood face to face

With a dark and seething beast

The teeth told of his demise

Though he knew his time wasn't out

The axe of death hewed quickly

Bear-blood flowed everywhere

He flayed for fur and armed himself with its life-force

A bloody sacrifice to our all-knowing god

Bestial bersekers in wolf and bear-skin

They were Odins messengers

The warriors bath was by the beach

A murder-moon is arisen

They guzzle down animal-blood

So that the blood-lust may grow

Body full of Psilocybe1

With dark intent

Without chain-mail, bare in bear-skin

Made into a beast with wolf-mind

They sank fangs into their shields

Foes with hands folded

The army knew not what hit them

When they were expedited to Helheim2

The dead bathed in a sea of red

It was for this they had been bred

Thank the gifts of The One-Eyed3

That widows visit empty graves

1. mushroom with psychedelic properties2. the underworld of the afterlife3. a kenning for Odin, who gave an eye for wisdom