1. |
The Son of the Serpent
04:15
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When I was born,
There was an earthquake,
And the huge storm
Caused the sea to shake.
When I was born,
All living things
Fled in horror
To hide in the deeps.
In the sky I'm a falcon,
I'm a pike in the water,
I'm a wolf in the forest,
I'm a son of the serpent!
A helmet of gold is on my head,
An armor of steel is on my body,
A mace of lead is in my hand,
I'm a sorcerer, I'm a warrior!
In the sky I'm a falcon,
I'm a pike in the water,
I'm a wolf in the forest,
I'm a son of the serpent!
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2. |
Too Heavy for the Earth
03:40
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Taller than the forest,
I am the strongest,
But I have a single dearth.
I'm too heavy for the Earth.
I'm too heavy for the Earth!
Only the cold Sacred mountains
Can hold my weight.
I just drown in the ground,
I'm too heavy for my way!
Svyatogor! [4x]
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3. |
Stone Coffin
04:24
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Riding to the mountains
With my brother,
Found a stone coffin,
Long and wide,
With a short sign:
Who is destined,
He will lie
In the coffin...
- Lie down
In the coffin, my small brother.
- But it's too big for me...
- Then I myself will lie down
In the coffin, my small brother.
It's big enough for me, close the lid.
It's hard to breathe
In the coffin
Under the stone lid.
Please open.
- I can't lift
The stone lid,
It's too heavy
For me.
Who is destined,
He will lie
In the coffin
And die.
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4. |
The Sword of Svyatogor
02:55
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- Take my sword
And hit across the lid.
- But your sword
Is to heavy for me.
- Bend down to me,
And I will breathe my strength
In you, my friend,
Through the gap in the coffin.
- I feel three times stronger,
But every time I hit the lid,
An iron strip grows at
The point of my hit.
- Let me give you
One more breath,
I will gift you
All my strength.
- No, I don't want
To be too
Heavy for the Earth,
Like you.
- Good that you
Didn't listen to me,
Otherwise I would
Have breathed
Death in you.
Forgive,
Take my sword with you
And leave.
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5. |
Ancient and Blind
02:59
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The hero has died,
And his horse is tied
To the coffin
Of the owner.
Hello, old man,
Ancient and blind!
I came to tell,
That your son lay down...
In the coffin alive,
And he could not get up.
Svyatogor is dead,
But his sword is in the hand
Of another
Sworn brother.
Hello, old man,
Ancient and blind!
I came to tell,
That your son died.
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6. |
The River of Blood
03:41
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At a feast
My young wife
Challenged me
To a shooting match.
She took her bow
And shot through the knife blade,
That cut her arrow
Into two pieces of equal weight.
And I took my bow,
And shot three times.
I shot three times,
But didn't even hit once.
Blinded by anger,
I pointed my bow at her tits!
She said she was pregnant
And begged me for mercy.
She asked me to whip her, to bury her in the ground,
To tie her by the hair to my horse,
But let her give birth to my child
And not to kill her now with my bow.
I did not believe it and shot the arrow,
And she fell and died.
Then I took my knife and cut open her belly,
There I found my child.
The only way for me now
Is to throw myself on my knife,
Let my blood out
And to die next to my wife.
A river of blood
Flowed out from the wound
Of the warrior.
The Danube!
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Serpenticide
01:44
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I swam in the river, but the current carried me away.
I ended up in the serpent's lair.
The serpent tried to burn me with fire,
But I am the one he was doomed to die from.
I took my hat, filled it with sand
And threw it at my enemy.
Blinded by the sand
He fell into the water stream.
I picked up a club
And beat him to death with it,
And then I took his corpse
And hung it on an aspen tree.
Then I killed all his offspring!
They all died!
I tore each baby serpent
In half! Serpenticide!
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8. |
Serpent Blood
03:44
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My wife is dead, my pagan swan woman.
Together with her I'm going to the
Grave alive, according to the oath
That we made to each other a year and a half ago.
At midnight dungeon serpents
Began to gather in our coffin.
The last to come was the great serpent with fiery breath.
I took my sword and cut his head off and brought him death.
Serpent blood, I anointed my wife.
Serpent blood, and it brought her back to life!
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Drevnij i Tyomnyj
03:07
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Богатырь мёртв,
А конь его
К гробу привязан,
Где спит хозяин.
Здравствуй, старик,
Древний, тёмный!
Я пришёл сообщить,
Что твой сын Святогор...
В каменный гроб
Заживо лёг.
Святогор мёртв,
А мечом его
Владеть призван им
Брат его названый.
Здравствуй, старик,
Древний, тёмный!
Я пришёл сообщить,
Что твой сын Святогор
Мёртв.
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