Текст песни
Ice cracks on the fjord at dawn
No warm fire waits for long
Wake before the sun has climbed the sky
Hands still stiff from frozen sleep last night
Wrap the wolf hide tight across my chest
Another day to fight, another test
I have buried friends beside the shore
Watched the waves take men I loved before
Scars run deep across my back and hands
No one counts the years that slip like sand
We do not live for gentle days or rest
We carry steel inside our bleeding chest
Frost bites deep but honour bites much more
This is the life the gods have laid before
I do not know my face when I return
The man that left here died while swords did burn
My children will not recognise my eyes
They only see the stranger that survives
We do not pray for easy paths or peace
We walk the road where only strong men cease
Blood on snow and salt upon our breath
We live until the cold calls us to death
Sometimes at night I dream of green warm fields
I dream of hands that do not hold sharp steel
But dawn will come, and I will wake again
And strap my shield, and walk the path of men
This is the weight that every warrior bears
We carry all the ghosts no one else shares
Frost and iron, honour and the roar
This is the life the gods have laid before
The longship sails into the grey
Another name will fade today
