Paroles et traduction Taake - VII

VII

Solen har forlengst
Sett sin bane bak fjell
Stille kveld foer skoddestorm
En natt aa minnes her
Blant nevrotiske moerke traer
Hvor maanen streifer iskaldt
I sin sorgtunge form
Her hvor engler styrtet
Dypt i havsens svelg
Her hvor engler druknet
Doedsdoemt skutt av lyn
Roedt det renner paa kirkevegg
Og dyr i mann faar teften
Paa haand og fot med raggeskjegg
Og fraad om galne kjeften
Ulvgule oeyet som speiler
Og ser i moerke natt
En lekam med lange negler
Fra fjellet spist og bratt
Hukrer aldri av frostens grep
Kaldere enn alle de tusen kulder
Med svarte fuglen paa saa bleik en skulder
Smykket med arr fra galgens rep

VII

The sun has long since
Set its path behind the mountains
Silent evening before the storm
A night to remember here
Amongst neurotic dark trees
Where the moon rests cold
In its sorrow-heavy form
Here where angels fell
Deep in the ocean's maw
Here where angels drowned
Condemned to death, shot by lightning
Red it runs on the church wall
And beast in man smells
On hands and feet with a shaggy beard
And foam around his mad jaws
Wolf-yellow eyes that reflect
And see in dark night
A body with long nails
From the mountain, eaten and steep
Never shivers from the grip of frost
Colder than all the thousand colds
With a black bird on such a pale shoulder
Adorned with scars from the gallows rope