Runaljod - Saille

Brethren, lend thy ear

Listen to my tale

How I discovered

The secrets of runes

I hung for nine full nights

On the windswept tree

Sacrificed to Odin

Myself to myself

Depraved of water

And bread for strength

Pierced by a spear

Hangs the one-eyed

This son of Bestla and Borr

Threefold the highest is he

Tyr of the hanged man

Ruler of Asgard

Father to the slayer of giants

Once gave his eye, a sacrifice

So he might drink from Mimir’s well

To master poetry and wisdom

There I hung from Yggdrasil’s branch

Reached for the runes and screamed with all my might

Suffered for wisdom, fell from the tree

Magic of runes, strong and stout staves

Fell from the tree

Fell from the tree

The highest of Aegir

That in Asgard dwell

But with this wisdom

Come frightful visions

Of the sailing of Naglfar

And Loki’s son

Unchained at last

Marching in Surtr’s wake

For the gods are doomed

Once the branches burn