Myrkursins Náði [English translation]

Today, the birds have not sung a single song.

It was like the extinguished sun today,

And the world stopped turning,

And the children stopped playing.

All the stars fell down from the sky,

And the moon faded away.

Not a sound was heard in my living room,

In darkness's deepest grace/mercy I stood.

The mercy of darkness, mercy of darkness,

The mercy of darkness surrounded me,

Embraced me.

This moment lured me to un-walked streets,

To the beginning of the world and the deepest roots of life.

And the darkness was neither evil nor cold,

No, the darkness had still not become evil or cold.

The only thing I heard were unusual sounds,

But such beautiful and clean and enchanting sounds.

And nothing had ended, and nothing had begun,

And nothing was visible, and nothing was concealed.

The mercy of darkness, mercy of darkness,

The mercy of darkness surrounded me,

Embraced me.