Sista brevet hem [English translation]

A letter of sorrow I write

with hands weakened by age.

My Love ended the journey

and went back home again.

She was a rosy flower

in the green of spring

but tears have followed her since we fared.

I remember the fruit she gave me

of an apple tree outside.

A seed that she brought with her from home.

The Vård tree1 that she tended

has grown and borne fruit.

The harvest became my sorrow and her end.

Frail and faint, a whisper,

Have I come home again?

Thus, my Love leaves and travels home again.

A smile of happiness:

I am home again.

Thus, she vanishes, my Love, and finds rest.

Over the sea our journey went,

here in the west was our destination.

I could not sense

her suffering and pain.

I thought everything would better,

time is a great healer.2

Surely she will stand laughing on day.

I saw her standing at the beach

staring into the distance.3

How tears of longing

stole all strength out of her breast.

But a heart does not burst quickly,

when longing slowly consumes.

A heart bleeds slowly, fades away.

Frail and faint, a whisper,

Have I come home again?

Thus, my Love leaves and travels home again.

A smile of happiness:

I am home again.

Thus, she vanishes, my Love, and finds rest.

Frail and faint, a whisper,

Have I come home again?

Thus, my Love leaves and travels home again.

A smile of happiness:

I am home again.

Thus, she vanishes, my Love, and finds rest.

Frail and faint, a whisper,

Have I come home again?

Thus, my Love leaves and travels home again.

A smile of happiness:

I am home again.

Thus, she vanishes, my Love, and finds rest.

Frail and faint, a whisper,

Have I come home again?

Thus, my Love leaves and travels home again.

A smile of happiness:

I am home again.

Thus, she vanishes, my Love, and finds rest.

1. A vårdträd is a great old tree at a farm in which the guardian spirit of the family lives. The tree is connected to the inhabitants of the farm and represents the health and the living conditions at this place. If the tree is healthy, the family lives happily and is in luck, if the tree is treated badly, the luck vanishes. http://trolldomhoodoo.blogspot.de/2014/09/trees-in-trolldom-tradition.html2. Literally: The time heals all wounds.3. Literally: With a gaze fixed hard into the distance.