Wyrd of the Dead Lyrics

[Lyrics by Frode Glesnes]
[Music by Gerhard Storesund & Frode Glesnes]Wounded
I hung on a wind-swept gallows
For nights all of nine
Pierced by a spear
Odin
Offered myself to myself
Wisest know not
From whence spring the rootsI plegded to Odin
A hanged mans giftSaw him hang nine days and nights
Pain did blind his sacrifice
More dead than alive
Carve the runes the dead to speak
Enlight the strong desert the weak
The wyrd of the deadSuffer
A sacrifice so profound
They gave no bread
They gave no mead

Peered down
I grasped the runes screaming of need
I took them
From that tree I fellI plegded to Odin
A hanged mans giftSaw him hang nine days and nights
Pain did blind his sacrifice
More dead than alive
Carve the runes the dead to speak
Enlight the strong desert the weak
The wyrd of the dead