1. HELFARER

Raven is my name, Helrunar is my name
Read, he who can, these runes
And read, he who can, the name Isar

I carved in stone, I carved in the earth
To fare the home of Hel
And illuminate the runic way

145. Better not to ask
Than to over-sacrifice
Always will gifts return
Better not to send
Than to over-waste
Such carved Thundr
Before the times of tribes
There he rose
Whereever he thence came


2. ASK

138. I know that I hung
In the wind-swept tree
All nine nights
Wounded by spears
And given to Odin
Myself to myself
In the tree
Of which no one knows
Of which root it rises

Freyr, Hagal, Tiwaz

139. They did not hand me bread
They did not offer me horn
Downwards I gazed
And runes I sensed
Screaming I sensed them
And then I feel


3. MIRMIRS WISDOM

Mimir, Allfather's giver of counsel
Lend me in your dark waters' visions
The journey towards omniscience's blurred currents

140. Nine potent songs
Learned I from the renowned son
Of Bolthorn, the father of Bestla
And I indulged in a liquid
The precious mead
Which was poured from Odraerir

Mimir, mankind's wisdom in blood
If I am drowned in dark waters'visions
Shall I see the ancience's lucid dreams


4. DE GAMLES ORD

Omens in the mist, omens in the wind
Omens in the ancestral darkness
Omens in the woods, omens in the water
Omens in the ancestral darkness

144. Do you know how to carve
Do you know how to counsel?
Do you know how to learn?
Do you know how to prove?
Do you know how to ask?
Do you know how to sacrifice?
Do you know how to send,
Do you know how to forget?

Under ashes and decay
Forgotten fathers' wisdom
Shadows' cunning
Runic words
Allfather's hidden voice

142. Runes shall you find
And reading staves
All great staves
All small staves
As the mighty speaker drew
As the hallowed gods made
And the highest as carved


5. NAAR ALT FRYSER IND

And there shall be aeons
Where soil and oblivion
Once more shall freeze
And there shall be aeons
Where no sparkling flames
Shall illuminate Mithgaard
Times where sorrow and yearning
Once more shall freeze

Then, we shall reject oblivion
Then, we shall rediscover our spirit
Then, we shal be lead by our ancestors

143. Odin by the Aesir
Dainn by the Elves
Dvalin by the Dwarves
Aasvid by the Giants
I, myself, raised some

141. Then would I grow
And become wise
Increase and thrive
Words lead from words
To other words
Deeds lead from deeds
To other deeds