Please help with Lyrics!

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Please help with Lyrics!

Postby TysonFonder » 2015-12-21, 9:15

There is a beautiful song by Gestir "Burtur frá toftunum". I would like to know the English translation please!


Burtur frá toftunum
Beri eg kolað lík

Burtur frá toftunum
Beri eg heystað korn

Heimurin í sori
Heimurin í vøkstri
Heimurin í sori
Heimurin í vøkstri

Alt mítt blóð fyri teg
Alt mítt blóð fyri teg

Lívið endar við hvørjum andadrátti

THANK YOU!

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Re: Please help with Lyrics!

Postby Mulder-21 » 2016-09-22, 21:04

Burtur frá toftunum - Away from the ruins
Beri eg kolað lík - I carry [a] burnt-out (literally: charcoal-ed) body/corpse

Burtur frá toftunum - Away from the ruins
Beri eg heystað korn - I carry harvested korn

Heimurin í sori - The world in "shreds" (literally more like pulverised)
Heimurin í vøkstri - The world in growth
Heimurin í sori - The world in "shreds"
Heimurin í vøkstri - The world in growth

Alt mítt blóð fyri teg - All my blood for you
Alt mítt blóð fyri teg - All my blood for you

Lívið endar við hvørjum andadrátti - The life ends with every drawing of breath
Gløgt er gestsins eyga. (Føroyskt orðafelli)
Wise is the stranger's eye. (Faroese saying)
L'occhio dell'ospite è acuto. (Proverbio faroico)
Hosťovo oko je múdre. (Faerské uslovie)

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