For friend with a bear's heart
(He) who once went in the land of ice
Crush, tear, crumble
Ice pours along the stone
It constantly wears out and grinds
Quietly rolls itself rubbing
A mountain's old branch
And never stops resting
Grain scrapes cold ice
Calved ice that is crashing cool
And screams dreadfully beautiful
Well born flowing water
Stone grinds skulls
There was once an eternal source
Ice first
Powerfully grinding, cracking
Water of malm
It sharpened itself, grinding
Constantly unstable
(It) Freezes and grows, afar of ember
Bigger it becomes
(It) crushes stone, tears rock, crumbles bone
Bone-crusher, rock-crumbler, stone-tearer
Stone grinds skulls
Skull-time, grinding-time, stone-times
The mountain's ancient power of the mountains
that you subjugated
And the sun shines on you
You give stream after stream
Grinding and firmly slicing
The stony stronghold deeper
You eat sand, then you spit dust
Constantly unstable
I am ancient basalt, mountain
Carrying the weight of the ice
Cloud army of the high sky,
invades the mountain home
It sheds firmly on gneiss and rock
And freezes to glacier lobes
Constantly unstable
And stone grinds skulls
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Hurrying, Great Roaring, Ever-cold
Punishment, She-Wolf, Swallower, Snow-storm
Wide, Battle trough, Noisy, Lightning
Ice waves!
(Ice waves!)