Elivagar [English translation]

For friend with a bear's heart

(He) who once went in the land of ice

Crush, tear, crumble

Ice pours along the stone

It constantly wears out and grinds

Quietly rolls itself rubbing

A mountain's old branch

And never stops resting

Grain scrapes cold ice

Calved ice that is crashing cool

And screams dreadfully beautiful

Well born flowing water

Stone grinds skulls

There was once an eternal source

Ice first

Powerfully grinding, cracking

Water of malm

It sharpened itself, grinding

Constantly unstable

(It) Freezes and grows, afar of ember

Bigger it becomes

(It) crushes stone, tears rock, crumbles bone

Bone-crusher, rock-crumbler, stone-tearer

Stone grinds skulls

Skull-time, grinding-time, stone-times

The mountain's ancient power of the mountains

that you subjugated

And the sun shines on you

You give stream after stream

Grinding and firmly slicing

The stony stronghold deeper

You eat sand, then you spit dust

Constantly unstable

I am ancient basalt, mountain

Carrying the weight of the ice

Cloud army of the high sky,

invades the mountain home

It sheds firmly on gneiss and rock

And freezes to glacier lobes

Constantly unstable

And stone grinds skulls

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Hurrying, Great Roaring, Ever-cold

Punishment, She-Wolf, Swallower, Snow-storm

Wide, Battle trough, Noisy, Lightning

Ice waves!

(Ice waves!)