[Note: "Linden tree" is a metaphor that means "woman".] "Egil Saga" from the album "Licht". Translation by me. This is a portion of the Old Icelandic "Egils ...
Egils saga: Egill, an Icelander, was an historical (tenth-century), learnéd Odin worshipper and a real-life Viking.
Egill is the acknowledged best-ever Norse skaldic poet. He composed for (and fought for) the first king whose rule truly extended to (almost all of) All-England: Æthelstein (who ruled 924 to 939). Egill was rewarded by Æthelstein with, amongst other things, a huge quantity of Saxon silver pennies, which Egill put into an Icelandic river, from where they were still appearing washed out many centuries later. Egill’s huge bones have been discovered and were the subject of an investigation reported in Scientific American.
In the lyrics of this song (taken from the saga) Egill saves the life of a sick woman whose boyfriend has wrongly carved “healing” runes, making her worse. Egill destroys those runes, carves effective ones and so heals the woman.
Music by German pagan-folk/mediæval band Faun. Published on Youtube by Viscious Oval, 2012.
English translation by Viscious Oval (taken from youtube): She has long been weak and it is a powerful wasting sickness; she does not sleep at night and she is as one possessed. Runes have been carved and it was a farmer's son not far from here that did this, and since then it is much worse than before. No man should carve runes without knowing how to read them well; many a man will blunder astray around those dark letters; I saw on shaped whale-bone ten secret letters carved; from this the linden tree got her long suffering. Egil carved runes and put them under the pillow in the bed where she rested. It seemed as though she had woken from sleep and said that she was now well.
Odin´s Temple One: my bold highlighting Egill´s own words (as translated).
