En glitrende gra solvkledd mane.
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Fra tidenes morgen en solvravnen var sendt.
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Den for som et trollsyn i natten.
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Eggende trollsyn lunt vevd inn i et sjel av
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sorgkledd take.
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En vitring om svigul, om blod gilde, strid.
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Ravnen messet intenst og lokkende.
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Sjeletarende toner fra oven kloyver stillhetens
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lappede skjold.
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Omslort av rimkald natt
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I tidenes morgen verken sol eller mane.
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Et tomrom uten jord og himmel.
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Nivlheims strid i mot Muspelheim
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var det eneste i tomhetens gapende svelg.
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I dette kosmiske skjaringpunkt,
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ble Yme den forste
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av hans legeme lagde Borsonn jord,
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himmel og hav.
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Enda kan man se av Muspells hete gnister
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stjerner blinke mot Ymes veldige skalle.
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Nordens demring......
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den forste, den eneste....
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Nordens demring......
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den forste, den storste....
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[English translation]
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"Silver Raven - Dawn Of The North"
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A glittering, grey, silver-clad moon,
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From the beginning of time a silver raven was sent.
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It flew like a vision in the night.
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Alluring vision woven in a shawl of
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Mournful fog
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A message of "svigul", of blood feast, of battle
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The raven intense and enthrallingly recites
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Soul splitting tunes from above rips
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The patched shield of silence.
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Surrounded by frost cold might.
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In the beginning of time neither sun nor moon.
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An empty space without heaven or earth.
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Nifelheim's battle against Muspellheim
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Was all in the wide-open emptiness.
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In this cosmic junction, Yme became the first
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Of his body Borsonn made earth, heaven and ocean.
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Still one can see Muspell's hot sparks
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Stars flashing at Yme's enormous skull.
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Dawn of the North...the first, the only....
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Dawn of the North....
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the first, the greatest....
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Solbravnen - Nordens demring
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