Portarna Till Hel [English translation]

There, underneath, worlds await

One day, when time ends

There, underneath, souls hunger

Until [the] day when chains break

There, highly and widely enclosed

Lies her kingdom: Hel

She, herself, sleeps in Death-bed

Behind Dreadful-bale, lies hidden

Hel rests so and waits for

Time that comes then

The walls should rupture

And the Naglfar [should] sail

The fourth hour comes

Her kingdom, potency, shall receive

A meal from the dish of Hunger

Divided, greedily, with the knife of Famine

Whereunder, cruel eyes

Measure the fate you shall receive

In wait of the end

When the battle should occur

[Chorus:]

Then the gates to Hel open up

All [of the] world shakes now, wildly, and prays

Now the gates to Hel open up

And the sun's light, you see no more

[Interlude]

Over [the] threshold of Stumbling-block

Enters down, into the kingdom, Hel

Of Soot Death, Death of Age:

Brought here to suffer more

In the time of the fifth hour

Heimdallr calls so to battle

In the sixth, æsir step

Out on [the] plain for one hundred miles

Know [that] fire consumes like that time

In the seventh, everything burns

[Chorus:]

Then the gates to Hel open up

All [of the] world now shakes, wildly, and prays

Now the gates to Hel open up

And the sun's light, you see no more

No more...