Stál og hnífur [English translation]

When I awoke in the morning

when you came in to me.

Your skin like silk,

your face like porcelain.

By the dock a boat silently rocks,

tonight I will die.

I dreamed that Death said "come quickly,

there's so much I want to tell you".

If I drown, drown tonight,

if they find me.

You can come and fetch me,

then I want to remind you.

Steel and knife is my symbol,

the symbol of travelling workers.

Yours was mine and mine was yours

while I lived among men.