Verehrt Und Angespien - English Lyrics
Merseburg Magic Spells
Then idisi landed1
Landed here and there2
Some took prisoners3
Some held off the army4
Some released the warriors5
The imprisoning chains released, the enemy escaped6
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1Valkyerie (Norse mythology)
2They fly through the air and land in three groups in different places
3One group puts the enemy in chains
4The other holds the enemy army back
5The third and most important group releases the prisoners in the enemy army of the party they were sworn into. Literal translation: some collected around the tribe chain.
6The last line is the actual magic formula, more recent research interprets this spell as magic for the warding off of disease
I Know Everything
An old fish doesn't smell fresh anymore
The good times are forgotten in the bad ones
A rubber tree sweats and the roots are ill
Whoever proposes to the mother will have to listen to the suffering of her daughter
I know Rome in its power
I know the dreams of the night
I know everything exactly
There's only one thing I don't know - and that's me
Piety does not heave behind every veil
And only a cleric fits the habit
The master has to be the same as the servant
The rectangular car can never be a wheel
I know the fools by their porridge faces
I know the weight of pain
I know everything exactly
There's only one thing I don't know - and that's me
Not only the thorns - the roses prick too
The hypocrite will speak with God more quietly
The wings has the wind and not the leaf
I know a scrooge by his gait
I know death, which robs everything
I know the waistcoat by the way the collar sits
I know everything exactly
There's only one thing I don't know - and that's me
Knight Mannelig
Once in the early morning before sun rise
Before the dawn chorus sounded
The mountain troll woman proposed to a knight
She spoke with a forked tongue
Knight Mannelig, Knight Mannelig
Please marry me
For I can give you everything
Your answer can only be "yes" or "no"
If you want it that way
I will give you twelve fine mares
Which are grazing in the shady grove
They have never felt a saddle
Never a bridle
I will give you twelve mills
Situated between Tillö and Ternö
The mill stones have the finest red gleam
And the wheels are made of silver
I will give you a golden sword
Which sounds with 15 gold rings
And in battles fights as you wish
On the battle field you will be victorious
I will give you a shirt, so new
The most beautiful that you have every seen
Not sewn with needle and thread
Crocheted from the finest white silk
Gifts such as these I would love to accept
If you were a Christian woman
But you are an evil mountain troll woman
From the species of the water trolls and the devil
The mountain troll ran out through the door
She walled and wept loudly
If I had got the handsome man
I would be freed from my pain
Knight Mannelig, Knight Mannelig
Please marry me
For I can give you everything
Your answer can only be "yes" or "no"
If you want it that way
Pavane
You beauty, you that keep my life caught in your eyes
That has abducted my soul with a smile
Come soon to release me
Or I will die
Minstrel's Curse
Once upon a time there was a king rich in land and things
He sat on his throne dark and pale
What he thinks is horror, what he sees is anger
What he says is scourge, what he writes is blood
Once a singer duo moved to this castle
One with black curls, the other with grey hair
The grey-haired one said to the boy: "Be prepared my son,
Play the best songs, hit the most harmonious note!"
It rains, it rains blood
It rains the minstrel's curse
Both singers played in the high room with huge columns
The royal couple sat on the throne
The king as regal as bloody north light
The queen as sweet as sunshine
They sing of springtide, love, healing
They flow into melancholy, lust was also there
You have blinded my nation, are you demanding my wife?
The king shouts furiously, his whole body trembling
It rains, it rains blood...
Glinting, the king's sword pierced the chest of the youth
Instead of the golden songs only a stream of blood flows
The youth crumbles in his master's arms
The old man shouts spine-chillingly, the marble room explodes
You cursed murderer, you curse of the minstrel's deed
Your rings are all for nothing, your deeds are covered with blood
The king's name does not sound in any song, no book of heroes
Sunk and forgotten - that is the curse of the minstrel
It rains, it rains blood...
The Fur of Woman
I caught her heart one summer day
lying tired on the water
The air was heaving with fertility
And the likes of us long not
Burrowed into the hair of woman
She sang her most beautiful song as black as tar
Until night fell
There she lay without her dress
I picked up three twigs up from the bush
And laid them on her stomach
She was so young and old enough
And her belly button also engulfed in hair
And down below that lay the mouth of a shell
I don't care what you think of me
She only gave me a night
Unfortunately like snow which melts away
Only a dream on the pale pond
Now the hussy has made a fool of me
Without her mouth, the grass was hard
And water isn't the lap of a woman
If you make a mistake on the pale pond
Paired with a moon woman perhaps
Is then my heart is free of the pain
And soon to sing a new song of love
Like a net which pulls shells from the depths
Only a dream on the pale pond
If I am Pulled up at the Gallows
The inquisition has me
With an evil look on a rope
I should have thought out loud
The earth is flat
If I am pulled up at the gallows
I will know the weight of my ass
Another loud scream, a scream, a scream, a scream
Damned as a heretic into hell
The stars in heaven were my grave
The noose tightens
Give me the rest soon
If I am pulled up at the gallows...
They preach water and drink wine
That should be a lesson to everyone
A blindfold around my eyes
Then a loud curse
If I am pulled up at the gallows...
This Corrosion
Gimme the ring, kissed and told
Gimme something that I missed
A hand to hold, wild and what it seems
Kill the king, when love is the law
And the we'll turn round
Gimme dream child
And do you hear at all?
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now
On daze like this
In times like these
I feel an animal deep inside
Well, what do you say
Living on if and if I tried
Somebody got a song for me
Hey now, hey now now...
I got nothing to say I ain't said before
I bled all I can, I won't bleed no more
I don`t need no one to understand
Why the blood run hold the highered hand
On heart
Hand Of God
Floodland and Driven Apart
Run cold
Turn
Cold
Burn
(Hey now, hey now now)... Like a healing hand
(Hey now, hey now now)... Like a healing hand
(Hey now, hey now now)... Like a healing hand
(Hey now, hey now now)... Like a healing hand
Holy Mary
Holy Mary
Star of the day
Show us the way
To God and lead us
You follow those who lose
And are led astray by their sins
You understand that they are guilty
But you forgive them
Friends and Relatives
Friends and relatives met to consult
To marry off the virgin of the year
Blossoming youth
Met to consult
To marry off the virgin of the year
We want to marry you with the son of a king
Who is has more gold than poor Roland from the country
Blossoming youth
To marry you with the son of a king
Who is has more gold than poor Roland from the country
On Saturday and Sunday the message was spread throughout the land
Monday and Tuesday will reveal who will get her
Blossoming youth
The message was spread throughout the land
Monday and Tuesday will reveal who will get her
On Wednesday and Thursday the wine was prepared
Friday and Saturday the marriage celebrated
Blossoming youth
The wine was prepared
Friday and Saturday the marriage celebrated
They drank for days, and they drank for two
But the bride didn't want to enter her chamber
Blossoming youth
They drank for two
But the bride didn't want to enter her chamber
They drank for days, and they drank for three
But the bride didn't want to touch the bed
Blossoming youth
They drank for three
But the bride didn't want to touch the bed
Then a poor assistant sailor came in through the door
He wore a torn blue shirt
Blossoming youth
a poor assistant sailor
He wore a torn blue shirt
He came to the table and said
I see that the sails are being put up
Blossoming youth
And said
I see that the sails are being set up
And the virgin went up to the attic
And ran down to the sea
Blossoming youth
Went up to the attic
And ran down to the sea
She jumped on the cliffs and ran on the tips of her toes
And respected the waves down below her
Blossoming youth
Ran on the tips of her toes
And respected the waves down below her
And she was received on board the ship
Entertained with mead and wine
Blossoming youth
On board the ship
Entertained with mead and wine
I see, I see your delicate white fingers
The wedding ring wasn't on there long
Blossoming youth
Your delicate white fingers
The wedding ring wasn't on there long
I see, I see on your golden hair
The bridal head-dress not there the day before yesterday
Blossoming youth
On your golden hair
The bridal head-dress not there the day before yesterday
I see, I see from your snow white breasts
You have not yet comforted any little children
Blossoming youth
From your snow white breasts
You have not yet comforted any little children
And she lay at the side of poor Roland
She had no worries and no fear
Blossoming youth
At the side of poor Roland
She had no worries and no fear
In Extremo
You are the sun that shines on me
You are the tears that cry for me
You are the drops that quench me
You are the fire that steers me
You are the sun that shines on me
You are the tears that cry for me
You are the drops that quench me
You are the fire that steers me
In Extremo
You are the mind I inherited
You are the blood that converts me
You play the harps that sing for me
You blow the horns that sound for me
You are the mind I inherited
You are the blood that converts me
You play the harps that sing for me
You blow the horns that sound for me
In Extremo
You are the envy that consumes me
You are the woman who craves me
You are the ground on which I stand
You are the path on which I walk
In Extremo
You are the ground on which I stand
You are the path on which I walk
