In The Raven's Eye Lyrics - Opera Ix

So the vision began 

And a mighty wind shook the roots of the nine worlds. 

The great wolf of the night roused 

And a deep slash cracked open the primordial ice. 

I saw him coming from the north 

The father of all gods Two crows next to him 

Two wolves at his sides 

In the grey cape wrapped I saw him coming, 

With the name of all things in his hand. 

He widened the big eye, this he said: WAR!! 

I know, for nine whole nights you hung down from the tree 

By the mercy of the wind shaken By the spear injured 

To Odin sacrificed, Myself to myself 

On that tree, of unknown roots, grown 

Nor bread nor drinking horn was given 

Towards the ground my look I cast 

The runes I picked up Shouting I took them 

And from up there I fell. 

The eye shut itself And from his hand I fell 

The human error I understood. 

Almost no soul to sustain me 

As if an infernal wind wanted 

To tear it away from me. 

Through the pain I saw and through it I understood 

As too great was the Chaos (at the beginning) 

Now too great was the order. 

The great millstone of the sky 

A new circle was about to be prepared. 

It was time for war 

Next to our fathers we would have fought once again