Hideaway Strath Lost Memory

Sovereign will be singing This Song please note this song by Wardruna is likely not a part of IRL Nordic traditions, but for this it felt very fitting. For the sake of this thread, please listen to it all the way through Sov will be singing in Norwegian but I've included the english translation text for easy context and reading for y'all <3

 


Sovereign was still healing.
Yet she stood strong beside her mother as the Warqueen gave her speech.
It would seem the child had already been told of what Fury was doing. 
She did not like it, and part of her was still in shock at the reality of it all.

Yet as each wolf gave their last respects in unison, the now-Fullvalda would raise her voice in solemn song as her mother lay dying. 
Her song would be beautiful and mourn-filled, tears rolling down her cheeks as she fought to keep her voice smooth for the sake of the great she-wolf lying before them all.

"Who will sing me
In the death-sleep sling me
When I walk the road to Hel
And the tracks I tread are cold, so cold

I sought the songs,
I sent the songs,
when the deepest well
offered drops so mighty 
of Allfather's pledge

I know it all, Odin!
Where you hid your eye

Who will sing me
In the death-sleep sling me
When I walk the road to Hel
and the tracks I tread are cold, so cold

Early or in fading day
still the Raven knows if I fall

When you stand by the gate of Hel
and when you must tear loose
Follow you I shall, across the bridge of Gjöll with my song
You become free from the bonds that bind you,
You are free from the bonds that bound you

Cattle die, 
kinsmen die, 
the self must also die.
But glory of reputation never dies,
for the kinsman who can get themself a good one...
Cattle die,
Kinsmen die,
The self must also die,
I know one thing that never dies:
the reputation of each dead wolf." 


Upon the end of her song, Sov hitched and bent her head to her mother's cheek, nose pressing into her pale furs.

"I will make you proud." She promised through her tears.