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Grótti

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Awaken, if you want to listen to
our chants and tales of yore.
 
Hoï hoï i ho-i hoï hoï i hoï-i-hi
hoï hoï i ho-i
that quern was named Grótti.
Hoï hoï i ho-i hoï hoï i hoï-i-hi
hoï hoï i ho-i
They sang and swung the spinning millstone.
 
On a ship, to giantesses Fenja and Menja,
Mysing1asked to grind salt.
He asked them to grind more.
On a ship, to giantesses Fenja and Menja,
he asked them to grind more, to grind salt.
On a ship, to giantesses Fenja and Menja,
Mysing asked to grind salt.
He asked them to grind more.
On a ship, to giantesses Fenja and Menja,
he asked them to grind more, to grind salt.
 
Awaken, if you want to listen to
our chants and tales of yore.
 
Hoï hoï i ho-i hoï hoï i hoï-i-hi
hoï hoï i ho-i
that quern was named Grótti.
Hoï hoï i ho-i hoï hoï i hoï-i-hi
hoï hoï i ho-i
They sang and swung the spinning millstone.
 
He asked them to grind more, to grind salt.
He asked them to grind more, to grind salt.
They kept on grinding a while, until the ships sank down below,
where the sea goes down into a maelstrom.2
That’s why the sea became salty.
He asked them to grind more, to grind salt.
He asked them to grind more, to grind salt.
They kept on grinding a while, until the ships sank down below,
where the sea goes down into a maelstrom.
That’s why the sea became salty.
 
Awaken, if you want to listen to
our chants and tales of yore.
 
Hoï hoï i ho-i hoï hoï i hoï-i-hi
hoï hoï i ho-i
that quern was named Grótti.
Hoï hoï i ho-i hoï hoï i hoï-i-hi
hoï hoï i ho-i
They sang and swung the spinning millstone.
Hoï hoï i ho-i hoï hoï i hoï-i-hi
hoï hoï i ho-i
that quern was named Grótti.
Hoï hoï i ho-i hoï hoï i hoï-i-hi
hoï hoï i ho-i
that’s why the sea became salty.
 
Awaken, if you want to listen.
 
  • 1. A Swedish sea-king who defeated the Danish king Fróði, from whom he took the huge quern Grótti and the two giantesses who could move it.
  • 2. Literally, the word "kvernaraugat" means "eye of the quern", while the English word "maelstrom" comes from Dutch "maalen" ("to grind") and "stroom" ("flow, stream").
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Grótti

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