The swift sending of summer staves
Is found by the felling firth of silence.
Crescent becomes descent in the celestial cycle;
Light and life move to darkness and death. 
Coming of the cold and the frost in a flurry
Brings the folk to the field to harvest in a hurry.
Winter wanders with biting beasts;
Gere gathers and Freki feasts.
Kindred pour ale and kindred regale,
Ready the home and ready the hearth,
Boast by the fire
To the lore of the clan and the lore of the tribes,
Bolstered through the bitters,
By the Ode of Odin.
Following the Father of Fate-seeking Faces,
Mastering his Magic-model through the Meta-matrix,
Captain and Commander of the Cosmic Voyage,
Make a sacrificial sojourn upon the Stellar-steed.
Grasper of glittering Gungnir,
Gear-rider of Galactic gallows,
Hailed by Huginn and Muninn,
Upon Yggdrasil and Sleipnir,
Manifesting in masks, the path of the Norse wyrd.
Concealed conductor of mortal mutation,
Embodiment of evolution, infusing inspiration,
May the scald-sagas send us to be warriors of the way, 
Wielders of wisdom, earned by elixirs of experience each day.