Schwarzer Frost [English translation]

The north gave the dark a language,

crystal clear as a winter night

Hounding pack, distant laughter

A way into the thicket, they don't follow that one

Black Frost - I become winter

Black Frost - Of me nothing but contrast remains

Black Frost - I become shadow face

No coldness moves me

Whipping branches, bleeding signs

I ask the pale Todin1 for me

until the white shroud2 covers me

The snow storm - me it doesn't kill...

I write Kvasir's3 blood in black (letters),

filled with fury I play4 the harp in the snake pit,

throw everything that's night within me

I cut the laughter...

The pack gets entangled in the thicket

when the winter clasts their icons5

The north gave the dark its language,

colder, faster and stronger...

1. the article and the suffix -in imply that it's a female person; it could be a female personification of death ("Tod")2. the kind of shroud that gets laid onto corpses3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvasir4. lit. "beat"5. derived from the expression "iconoclast", "Bilderstürmer"