SKÁLD | Fimbulvetr (Lyrics & Translation)

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The lyrics are composed of lines from “Gylfaginning” (stanzas 51 and 18), “Vafþrúðnismál” (only the line “hann er a hverian veg”) and “Völuspá” (stanza 59). The song starts by describing Fimbulwinter, the three-years long winter which will announce the forthcoming of Ragnarök, then it talks about Hræsvelgr, the giant who creates the wind, and finally it finishes with a description of the post-Ragnarök world, in its new golden age.
In Norse mythology, Fimbulwinter is an event yet to come, but as the lyrics were changed to “I remember Fimbulwinter” and “the sun darkening” instead of the original “the sun will darken”, it is possible that the intent was to portray Fimbulwinter and Ragnarök itself as past events, while describing the newly reborn world. Even so, the line “at vetr sá kemr” (“such is the winter to come”) still describes an event to come.

I know a transcription in runes of such a text doesn’t really have any reason to be, if not as a treat, but yeah…that’s just what it is, bear with me.

Any suggestion and/or observation is warmly welcome.

The lyrics are pronounced as modern Icelandic, instead of using Old Norse pronunciation: e.g. they sing “ll” with its Icelandic pronunciation /tl/, instead of a simple /ll/, or “é” as the Icelandic diphthong /je/ instead of the Old Norse /:e/.

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