Gada īsākā nakts - Skyforger Übersetzung ins Englische

Gada īsākā nakts

Kur ir ta zeme,
No kurienes vins nak
Kas ir tas viedais,
Kurs zin, kas celu radit mak

Kur muziga vasara,
Zalas plavas pukes zied,
Mums tur nekad nenoklut,
Kaut visu dzivi iet

Un tikai vienreiz gada,
Kad isaka nakts ir klat,
Pats sirmais Dievins tad liek
Pie mums savam delam jat

Par kalniem un ielejam,
Ar dziesmam skalam,
Tur jau vins jaj,
Veriet atrak vartus vala

Noskindeja zelta piesi Dieva delam atjajot,
Ribej zeme, skanej lauki no kumela nolecot

Ozollapu vainagu galva
Vins sezas galda gala,
Pirmo alus kausu tver,
Zemi svetidams to dzer

Un augstako kalnu galos
Visu nakti Janu ugunis degs,
Lidz agram ritam,
Kad mums atkal Saule leks

Janu diena - sveta diena
Aiz visam'i dieninam,
Janu dienu Dieva dels
Saules meitu sveicinaja

The Shortest Night

Where is that land
Where he comes from
Who is that wise man
Who knows how to guide

Where summer is musical
Fields bloom with green flowers
We shall never get there
Though we walk all our lives

And only once a year
When the shortest night is here
The very God puts
His son to come to us

Over hills and through valleys
With resounding songs
Here he is now
Open up the gates

Pick the golden grain As God's son comes riding
The earth shakes, fields ring As his steed touches the ground

With a wreath of oak leaves on his head
He sits at the head of the table
Takes the first cup of ale
And drinks, blessing the land

And on the tops of the highest mountains
All night long the St. John's fires burn
Till early dawn
When the Sun rises again for us

St. John's Day is a holy day
Holier than all other days
On St. John's Day God's son
Greeted the daughter of the Sun