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AN INTERROGATION OF THE "REAL" IN ALL ITS GUISES
Hamm: What's happening?
Clov: Something is taking its course.
Beckett
Thursday, 20 February 2014
Ragnarök
Happy impending Ragnarök everybody! It was nice knowing you.
(My house for the afterparty)
Translation Wodan Heerst
Wodan knew where he would go, traveled through weather and wind
Past giant's mountain and shadow-filled valleys
To Mimir's spring, at the foot of Yggdrasil
Where Wodan came to get never ending wisdom
No other man would drink from the spring, so was fate
Only one prize/price* would reward the man
Wodan offered Mimir his eye, should he see better
What that is will yet come to us
Unending, your rage, your wisdom is great
Grant us your blessing, the enemy death
No fear of dying, your people fearless
The world will know that Wodan rules
Unending, your rage, your wisdom is great
Grant me your knowledge of life and death
Open my eyes, unshackle my spirit
And I will know that Wodan rules
Wodan hang in the tree, himself wounded with a spear
A sacrifice to receive the wisdom of the runes
Plagued by his hunger and thirst for nine nights long
So/in this way he made the runes his own
The runescript, the magic script, he gave to the people of Midgard
A gift to us who fight with his blessing
Now we carve the runes in our sword for victory in the battle
Valkyries we see riding through the heavens
From the heavens stare two ravens
They peer over our dark, flat land
And they see how Wodan's people awaken
With Wodan's blessing we go to battle
We reach for the sword, the spear and the seax
The enemy hears how our people yell a battlecry
From our throats sounds the songs
They sing of the Allfather's wisdom and power
And we see how the old god awakens
The cowardly enemy fears for our wrath
We fight for victory and otherwise death
And we see how Wodan lives in us
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