Emblas Saga
[00:07.08] I dream of fire.
[00:15.57] I dream of death.
[00:23.81] Where stars adorn the darkness.
[00:47.71] Fire and death, darkness and blood.
[00:57.28] You have two faces, oh silent night
[01:17.73] In the beginning there was only darkness
[01:20.66] Of icy mist and smoke
[01:22.78] A darkness so completely dark
[01:24.89] By war and death invoked
[01:27.28] Sparkling flames would dare to reach
[01:30.22] Across the arid void
[01:31.81] And melt the rim of ice and frost
[01:34.72] That framed it from the north
[01:37.38] Oh, the birth of gods, the fall of foes
[01:40.31] Oh, children of the tree
[01:42.16] Now listen close, and hear the truth
[01:45.62] Of how you came to be
[01:47.75] First was the giant, Ymir his name
[01:50.66] Then the cow Auðumbla, out of the melting ice they came
[01:53.85] From Ymirs' palm another pair of giants, born and bred
[01:57.30] Then left and right, his feet would mate to birth a child with several heads
[02:00.76] Auðumbla fed on frost in all her pride and grace
[02:03.95] She woke the very first of gods by licking on his face
[02:07.40] She ate away the icy cage that held him in his fury
[02:10.59] A man of beauty and of might by the name of Burí
[02:14.30] Burí somehow got a son, who somehow got a wife
[02:17.23] Burí, Borr and Bestla – the avengers of their time
[02:20.68] Then Bestla bore the children who made this story true
[02:24.14] Vile, Ve and Odin – who created me and you
[02:27.58] Memories will fade from man
[02:33.69] The snow of death will fall upon
[02:37.42] The children of Wodan
[02:40.87] Distant echoes, whispering
[02:44.32] Of how it all began
[02:47.51] For the children of Wodan
[03:07.70] Three were the brothers, three were the gods
[03:11.15] In a world of giants, conspiring how to turn the odds
[03:14.60] They slayed the very oldest, the one who was the first
[03:17.79] Within the flowing blood - every giant was submerged
[03:20.98] These waters of decay would never cease to flow
[03:24.43] Creating every sea and every river that we know
[03:27.88] And while the giants drowned, the gods got the idea
[03:31.08] To take the corpse of Ymir and make the earth appear
[03:34.53] His body would become the soil, his skull became the sky
[03:37.72] And then they threw his giant brains aloft to form the clouds
[03:41.17] His teeth became the rocks, they made mountains from his bones
[03:44.88] And on the meadows through his hair the summer breeze was blown
[04:02.69] Out of the ashes and into the light
[04:07.73] The dead will make room for the living
[04:09.32] Deep in the darkest of nights
[04:11.45] The end is another beginning
[04:15.16] The fire in my dreams
[04:21.54] The death so long foreseen
[04:28.44] The darkest sky
[04:31.90] Adorned by lights
[04:35.62] What does it hide?
[04:40.13] Out of the ashes rise
[04:46.78] The glowing seed of life
[04:51.82] The darkest sky
[04:55.01] Two faces hides
[04:59.00] Oh, silent night
[05:35.65] When the gods were done
[05:37.24] They took a little break
[05:39.10] A stroll upon the beach
[05:40.97] To take a breath and contemplate
[05:42.55] Two logs of ash and elm
[05:44.16] Lay stranded on the shore
[05:45.48] The children of the forest
[05:47.08] The children of the gods
[05:48.93] From dead to animated
[05:50.52] And no longer adrift
[05:52.12] For like the fairy godmothers
[05:53.72] They gave them special gifts
[05:55.57] The first would grant them spirit
[05:57.17] And life beyond the plant
[05:58.76] The second gave them movement
[06:00.36] And the wit to understand
[06:02.22] The third would give them faces
[06:03.81] Their hearing and their sight
[06:05.67] And thus the very first of humans
[06:07.79] Were brought to life
[06:22.40] Memories will fade from man
[06:29.04] The snow of death will fall upon
[06:32.23] The children of Wodan
[06:35.94] Distant echoes, whispering
[06:40.73] Of how it all began
[06:42.33] For the children of Wodan
