Aurora swims in the ether
emerald fire scars the night sky
Amber streams from Sol
are not unlike the waves of the sea
Nor the endless horizon of ice
Aurora swims in the ether
emerald fire paints the twilight
Heidrun bleeds the golden nectar
for the raising sun and the moon
The midnight wolves who watch over the dawn, the golden dawn
Solstafir!!!
emerald fire scars the night sky
Amber streams from Sol
are not unlike the waves of the sea
Nor the endless horizon of ice
Aurora swims in the ether
emerald fire paints the twilight
Heidrun bleeds the golden nectar
for the raising sun and the moon
The midnight wolves who watch over the dawn, the golden dawn
Solstafir!!!
Lyrics submitted by Bloodmouth, edited by prateekcertain
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Aurora is the Roman goddess of the dawn;
Sol is the Norse goddess of the sun;
Heidrun is a goat in Norse mythology who makes mead; and
Solstafir is the Icelandir word for radiating rays of sunlight (crepuscular rays)
Heidrun bleeds the golden nectar for the rising sun and the moon
The midnight wolves who watch over the dawn, the golden dawn
Solstafir!
Amber streams from Sol
are not unlike the waves of the sea
I feel this song is a collection of mythological figures and ideas that all tie in to the subject of the rising of the sun - dawn.
I'm sure what the lines "Heidrun bleeds the golden nectar for the rising sun and the moon
The midnight wolves who watch over the dawn, the golden dawn" are about. Perhaps it's just a part of Norse mythology that the band finds particularly inspiring. Regardless it sits quite well in the song.
This song is deeply powerful and leaves me feeling insignificant within The Universe yet awed and inspired that I am part of such a thing.
I believe if taken at face value the song literally describes a sunrise, and/or sunset. "emerald fire scars the night sky " - The sun creeping over the horizon, its rays piercing the surrounding dark... etc.
But in a deeper way, using the gods in the place of other language, it suggests that the old gods do in fact exist, not necessarily in a literal, incarnate sense... but in those rays of light, in the very beauty of the simple, natural progression of the sunrise. So hence you have the more upbeat "feeling" of the song, it's not a sombre reflection of nature or the wilderness, it's more of a celebration of the divine existing in a larger sense all around us.