Ein sat hon uti - Wardruna

Veit hon Heimdallar

hljóð um fólgit

undir heiðvönum

helgum baðmi,

á sér hon ausask

aurgum forsi

af veði Valföðrs.

Vituð ér enn eða hvat?

Ein sat hon úti,

þá er inn aldni kom

yggjungr ása

ok í augu leit.

Hvers fregnið mik?

Hví freistið mín?

Alt veit ek, Óðinn,

hvar þú auga falt,

í inum mœra

Mímis brunni.

Drekkr mjöð Mímir

morgin hverjan

af veði Valföðrs.

Vituð ér enn eða hvat?

She knows that Heimdall’s hearing is hidden

Under the bright-grown, sacred tree;

She sees, flowing down, the loam-filled flood

From Father of the Slain’s pledge — do you want

To know more: and what?

Alone she sat outside, when the old man came

The Terrible One of the Æsir and he looked in

Her eyes:

'Why do you question me?

Why do you test me?

I know all about it, Odin, where you hid your eye

In Mimir’s famous well.'

Mimir drinks mead every morning

From Father of the Slain’s pledge — do you want

To know more: and what?