Skyforger
Kurbads
1. Curse Of The Witch
Izsalcis vilks naks un apris sauli
Gaisma izdizsis-purvos bales kauli
Cuska izlidis
Tikai ledains meness spides debesis
Cuska indi spljaus-lastus izgrudis
Launa acs visu redz!
Jas melns jatnieks lidz sev atvedis
Sumpurnus moskus
Tie locisies rapos
Zemi piepildis raus un plosis
Kars meris bads. Bus tam jatniekam vards
Ilgi gaidits gadsimtiem krats-raganas lasts
Launa acs visu redz visu saskatis
Nepaslepsies neviens-visus ieraudzis
Launa mute indes vards-pasacits
Melna burvju gramata sen jau ierakstits
Viens otram rikles pargrauzis
Del mantas un zelta
Arvien vairak un vairak tos iekare dzis
Klust tie vergu tauta
Kurlas ausis
Kurlas ausis melu vardus saklausis
Nav vairs ilgi gan jau driz...
Izsalcis vilks naks un apris sauli
Gaisma izdzisis purvos bales kauli
Cuska izlidis
2. Son Of The Mare
On a mountain top
By a clear wellspring
Laima weaves fate
Plaiting the thread
A golden spinning-wheel runs under her feet
Who will live and who will die
Where joy will be heard and where tears will be shed
One thread is long, the other is short
As she decides, so shall she weave
A cuckoo calls from a tree
Behind the window a young lady is weeping:
- "If only Laima would give me a son I would nurse and fondle him as best as I could!"
Don't cry young lady – Laima already knows
She weaves fate, plaiting the thread
For soon there will be time for a hero to come
For a hero to come and start his story
In your dream you will see what must be done
Catch a pike-fish, gut it and boil it
She who will eat that pike
Will soon become pregnant
Half man, half beast – the mare will bear a son
Like flint, like steel – undefeatable!
But everything will happen as Laima has decreed
There will be three who eat that pike
A son born from a lady, another from a maidservant
But loudest cried third one in the white mare's stable
Half man, half beast – the mare will bear a son
Like flint, like steel – undefeatable!
They will become like brothers
But one will be above them all
Not by years, but by days he will grow
Kurbads - son of the mare he will be called
No work will be too hard for him
On the third year they send him to hunt
On the seventh he boldly lifts his sword
He will roll boulders like they were peas
He's Kurbads - son of the mare
3. The Nine-headed
4. Bewitched Forest
5. In The Yard Of The Father's Son
6. The Devilslayer
7. The Stone Sentinel
8. In The Underworld
Tell us, Kurbads, where have you been
In the foreign lands what you have seen?
People have long sung songs about you
Of devils and monsters you have fought
I have been in the Underworld
Can anyone believe that?
I chopped down three devils there
And saved the king's daughter
Tell us, Kurbads, say the truth
How did you descend into the Underworld?
Did it really go easy for you?
And how did you ever return back home?
It was hard down there
But I had powerful words with me *
They helped and protected me
Even Laima herself paved my way
The Snake Witch bit my rope in two
I fell back
And was forced to go and find another way out
The monstrous werewolf I overcame
I helped a blind man
Regain his eyesight
The nestling of a great eagle
I saved from the hail
For such deeds Eagle repaid me greatly
Great eagle carried me
Out to the surface
Then I arrived home at last
That's how it was
That's what happened to me in the Underworld
[*Powerful words:]
I was born a child of iron
A mother of steel gave me life
I put on a jacket of iron
A coat made of steel
They struck at me, stabbed at me
Like a block of oak
They couldn't hit or stab me
Like to a chunk of steel
9. Black Rider
10. The Last Battle
11. Kurbads
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