Runes

Runes you will reveal

In the dust of ancient times

Remember my sacrifice

When I hung for these nine nights

Runes they were concealed

In the dust of ancient times

I died to be reborn

When I suffered these nine nights

know myself hanging there

For nice icy nights

Facing the endless darkness around me

Wounded by my own spear

On the wind cold tree

I am Odin - Hallowed by my own rite

A tree unknown the roots be sprouts

Lets my life slowly fade

From a bough of Yggdrasil I hung

Committed to my fate

Delivered to the fright

Of endless ice and night

I had to gaze into the misty world

Of Niflheim - the dire northern frost empire

In my self chosen solitude

Runes you will reveal

In the dust of ancient times

Remember my sacrifice

When I hung for these nine nights

Runes they were concealed

In the dust of ancient times

I died to be reborn

When I suffered these nine nights

When I begun to grow

Evanescent by pain

I sunk from the tree with a sigh

The knowledge of the dead I learnt

Cause only cruelty can forge

And then word just followed word