A song for Yggdrasill translated from icelandic to modern English.

An ash I know it stands-

It is named Yggdrasill.

High tree, sprinkled, With white mud;

There from come the dews-

That fall on the dale!

It stands always green

The source of Urdhr.

There from come the maids,

Much knowing; Three, their dwelling,

Stands under the tree;

Urdh is named one,

The other Verdhandi, They notched wood –

Skuld is the third.

They set up the laws,

They decided on the lives,

Of the children of man

They promulgate fate