In dark and endless nights   Fire's giving gloomy light   In the great hall we sit together   While outside the stormclouds gather   An oaken table,mighty walls   The glory circle in these halls   Listen to songs of forgotten aeons   The story of the nightmare demon      When we are gathered in the hall   They tell a wintertale   Of a time that is gone   They are singing their song      From a distance, some faint light   Coming closer, like ghosts in the night   It's a courier, and what he brings   From the darkness, are bad tidings   The evil demon, back from the dead   Darker than ever, again he spreads   Gaining force to, retaliate   Was our fight, to no avail      When we are gathered in the hall   They tell a wintertale   Of a time that is gone   They are singing their song      Hope is weakened, (our) pride is gone   It's all in vain, and nothing?s won   Fear is rising, the tide has turned   The golden future, is all burned   Feeling bitter, and crestfallen   My way home now, is stolen   Without mercy, and all our might   No surrender, we?ll take the fight      When we are gathered in the hall   They tell a wintertale   We will fight till it's won   Till the last man is gone