Sinklars Vísa [English translation]

Lord Sinclair crossed the salty sea,

to Norway his course was set;

among Gudbrand's cliffs he found his grave,

where a bloody brow awaited.

- Up before the break of day,

they’re coming across the heath. -

By Romsdal's coast he came ashore,

declaring his enmity;

with fourteen hundred men behind,

all with evil intent.

- Up before the break of day,

they’re coming across the heath. -

They pillaged and burned, wherever they came,

all rights they trampled,

the frailty of age, it moved them not,

they scorned the weeping widow.

- Up before the break of day,

they’re coming across the heath. -

The soldier's away on the King's convoy,

We must ourselves our land defend;

Cursèd be the worthless knave,

Who'd now his blood conserve!

- Up before the break of day,

they’re coming across the heath. -

The farmers of Våge, Lessøe and Lom,

with sharpened axes shouldered,

At Bredebøjg together came,

with the Scot, they would have words.

- Up before the break of day,

they’re coming across the heath. -

Just under the hillside lies a path,

the people there call Kringen,

The company hastened past the place,

there in shall the enemy fall.

- Up before the break of day,

they’re coming across the heath. -

With corpses now was Kringen strewn,

the ravens ate their fill;

the blood of youth, that here was spilled,

Scottish girls bewailed.

- Up before the break of day,

they’re coming across the heath. -

Yet stands a column at that same place,

that Norway's foes would threaten.

Woe to any Norwegian unmoved,

each time his eyes behold it.

- Up before the break of day,

they’re coming across the heath. -