Paroles et traduction Dimmu Borgir - Stien

Stien

Svunne tider pajotuns vei
Der over hoye klipper og fjell
Har merket den med stov og aske
Fra dengang alders hirder
Vandret pa disse kanter

Her gandviks bergtroll trampet frem
I ondt og strrt et tussefolge
Hvor ferdafolk fant stor en visdom
Om landets skogsliv og morke sider
Her pa stien som bukter seg uendelig frem
Mellom berg hvor de vanskelig fremdeles
Kan oynes i horisonten

Sa storslatt det ma ha v? rt
Og speide ut over alt dette
Og a vandre sa alene og fri
En hostkveld i en kald og lett take
Slik som mange for meg har opplevd
Og som mange for meg ha verdsatt

Men minner blir glemt av tidens gang
Og lite er her som det engang var
Her som ellers har blader visnet
Men falt ned pa en forfallen jord
Hvor drommer og liv har dodd ut

Men kanskje bak en stien
Eller bak en gammel busk
Sitter fortsatt... hmm
Og venter?

Stien

Vanished times of the giant's way
Where, over towering cliffs and fell
I marked it with dust and ash
From when the shepherds of old
Journeyed on these shores

Here, Gandvik's mountain troll stamped forth
In evil and rage, a ghostly band
Where travelers found great wisdom
About the forest life and dark sides of the land
Here on the path that wanders endlessly forth
Between mountains where they are still hard
To be discerned on the horizon

So magnificent it must have been
To gaze out over all this
And to wander so alone and free
An autumn evening in a cold and light fog
As many before me have experienced
And as many before me have appreciated

But memories are forgotten by the passage of time
And little here is like it once was
Here, as elsewhere, leaves have withered
But have fallen on a barren ground
Where dreams and life have died out

But perhaps behind a path
Or behind an old bush
Still sits... hmm
And waits?