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- [English translation:]
- Hero is fallen, hand is sore
- Head is cleaved to the neck
- Ever since then grow sea mayweed [baldursbrár]
- Berries eats the Rock Ptarmigan [rjúpa]
- Valkyries fetch the fighting men
- Field is covered in blood
- Einherja you Odin will
- Nominate my good friend.
- Carried into the air, steady grip
- Taken without any gainsay.
- Echos widely weapons clash,
- We can not delay now
- Now he has proven himself,
- A hero and fate maker.
- We say our goodbyes to this good man,
- The man I speak of is Baldur.
- Valkyries the val explore now,
- Pick the men for the confrontation.
- Bifrost waits for us like that,
- Baldur bucks [goats] of Thor now rise.
- Overhead two ravens flying,
- Huginn, Muninn wisdom gater.
- Heimdall shall open the gates,
- We shall in and straight to arms.
- Einherjar the val now roam,
- Valhall, place of all places.
- Midgard goodbye, powerless then
- Confused I roam around [?]
- Now I look down upon
- The bulls around my old town..
- Life is there around Bæjartjörn [central square of Asgard],
- Bale is covered in heather.
- Around there play little children,
- Life there moves in circles.
- Over us the gods now watch,
- Glad we shall fill our throats.
- Maidens to the other men introduce,
- The mead we drink and the meat we eat..
- Both of them, jarl Gunnar, Grímur,
- Glasses empty, saying rhymes..
- Prepared now for Ragnarok,
- Shove the swords out through the backs.
- The wounds they heal and sorrows dwindle,
- Soul is whole, I Odin thank!
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