Så vände vinden [English translation]

Someone said that the shadow under the trees

Evermore like the frost became white

As if this green grass was summer's hair

Which hastily aged and froze into ice

I stood quiet and frozen there in the darkness

And only heard everything that I held dear

Disappear in a dark and icy wind

And summer soon lay dead in the land of Rind

So the wind turned around

The black heat came

Later I fell straight into someone's arms

Someone who came running and screamed

I didn't know whom in this darkness

Who caught me when both my legs gave out

If it was a devil or a human

Because the roar increased to a hurricane

And he who held me screamed much louder

Shield your eyes, it's coming soon

So the wind turned around

The black heat came

Then I made my voice as shrill as I could

And yelled back to him, 'I am blind

And therefore shielded, I have never seen

But only ever felt the land of Rind'

Then the man let go of me and ran for his life

I don't know where in the night's hot roar

That suddenly only could be deafened

By fearsome thunder from far away

So the wind turned around

The black heat came

I managed to reach a rocky crevice

There the heat was not so intolerably hard

And someone carried me through the night

The time that followed became my fatal year

I learned the great shriek's braille

On the faces I touched with my hand

Now I am the singer in the third hall

And never will return to my land

So the wind turned around

The black heat came