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Galgaldr (Gal? Song/chant)

Brothers shall fight
and fell each other,
And sisters' sons
shall kinship stain;
Hard is it on earth,
with mighty whoredom;
Axe-time, sword-time,
shields are sundered,
Wind-time, wolf-time,
ere the world falls;
Nor ever shall men
each other spare.
 
axe-time,
sword-time,
wind-time,
wolf-time.
 
I incant against the spirit,
against the walking (spirit),
against the riding one,
against the running one,
against the sitting one,
against the signing one,
against the travelling one,
against the flying one,
It shall completely wither and die.
 
Now do I see
the earth anew
Rise all green
from the waves again;
The cataracts fall,
and the eagle flies,
And fish he catches
beneath the cliffs.
 
Old Norse
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Galgaldr

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MelkutusMelkutus    Sun, 30/06/2019 - 23:11

Galgaldr would likely translate as "crowing spell" according to how the verb gala translates from Icelandic.