Hagalaz The Abbess of Abjection Hagalaz…Hagalaz…Hagalaz In the time of the end No sages' divination In the time of the cross No sagas' animism No Odin swinging from Yggdrasil Each note a stone whose Sacred strain has come To open the mind's wild tomb From the fields of icy prophecy First among the Aesir The world tree's ripest victim The world tree's darkest savior Nine nights & nine days His eye hung upside down In the haunt of sleep-starved hunger The wound of twig-strewn ground Shapes fell from Valhalla Magic runic letters Carved on wood or stone The suffering fetters broke Glyphs' ungodly strength Niflheim's antidote Healing for the roots Sere & dragon-toothed Ragnarok avenges the masses Burning north in a nailed ghoul's ship Loki at the rudder bearing down Enraged with the flame of Nidhogg Odin's ghost withers with the world tree But the runes remain scattered in vastness The sharp scored blood of their symbols Bearing witness to the mystery of witness