SKÁLD | Rún (Lyrics & Translation)

~ Enable subtitles for the English translation! ► All songs by SKÁLD: ► Vikings Chant (Album): ► More videos in Old Norse: ► More Viking songs: The stanzas quote the short poem “Völuspá hin skamma” (“Short Völuspá”) as reported in “Gylfaginning” in the Prose Edda. Refrains list out all the names of the runes present in Elder Futhark alphabet (which is also the alphabet I used for my transcription). Runes had a sacred use in Nordic religion: Norse sorcerers, seeresses and warlocks worked their magic with the runes and Odin himself hung to the ash Yggdrasil for nine nights to learn the secrets of the runes and gain the right to be runemaster. To ever