I see a dark sail on the horizon   Set under a black cloud that hides the sun      Bring me my broadsword and clear understanding   Bring me my cross of gold as a talisman      Get up to the roundhouse on the cliff-top standing   Take women and children and bed them down      Bring me my broadsword and clear understanding   Bring me my cross of gold as a talisman      Bless with a hard hearth and those who surround me   Bless the women and children, who firm our hands   Put our backs to the north wind, hold fast by the river   Sweet memories to drive us on for the motherland      I see a dark sail on the horizon   Set under a black cloud that hides the sun      So bring me my broadsword and clear understanding   Bring me my cross of gold as a talisman      So bring me my broadsword and a cross of gold as a talisman