Myrkvedr : Cerdic song translated to English

Words : Official English translations
Song : Cerdic
Release : Sons Of Muspell
Thanks to the band for the sharing.

Cerdic

I slept beside rotting corpse

my family was killed when I was a child

My sister and mother taken over and over again

until they breathed no more

I lived on my father's meat

until only his pale bones were left .

I writhed in pain and cut up

my own throat to quench my bleak life

Everywhere lay women and men dead

the children were nailed to trees.

Our country was ravaged and burned

and the king hung impaled on a spear

A dawn now looms for the aesir .

We shall defeat a false hoard.

Do you hear the wind

Your deadline is past

You hear death's breath

I bring death and rotten rest

A dawn now looms for the aesir .

We shall defeat a false hoard.

Do you hear the wind

The wolf shall feast on your flesh tonight

Do you see death's smile

Cerdic , kings terrifying slayer

Here my lord, is the answer you sought

a hostile spy gave the answer .

I did stick out his eyes

and cut off his fingers

However, he still refused to tell me

so I covered his head in oil

and set fire to his hair

during his last cry I heard this answer

Your lives will not be spared.

From his castle at High Cliff

Mighty King Harald cannot be defeated,

Nor can your weapons hurt him there,

You shall burn in hells wide embrace

you unbelieving pigs.

A dawn now looms for the aesir...

Not a castle on the cliff large

can withstand the wrath of Thor.

Cerdic let his arm march toward dark castle

to bring new widows to mourning

With hundreds of wide slings we filled

his castle with straw and at dusk

we shot a burst of fiery darts to light it.

A dawn , now looms for the aesir...