SKÁLD | Ódinn (Lyrics & Translation)

~ Enable subtitles for the English translation! ► All songs by SKÁLD: ► Vikings Chant (Album): ► More videos in Old Norse: ► More Viking songs: The lines repeated for most of the lyrics come from the Völuspá (“Profecy of the seeress”), stanza 28, first and most notorious poem from the Poetic Edda. When Odin, who loved to challenge others’ knowledge, tests the seeress’, she answers annoyed that she knows everything about him, including the fact that he took out his eye and offered it as a pledge to the wise giant Mímir to convince him to let him drink from the spring of knowledge he guards. The lines “And they came before him, (…) There he will lie un
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