The Way To Hel

I love to sing this song. It's a powerful one. I usually sing it when I'm alone or when the household is sleeping. I'm very shy of singing if front of people.
The poem at the end of the song is from the Poetic Edda, Hávamál. It quotes the Gestaþáttr, Stanzas 77.

"Deyr fé, 

deyja frændr, 

deyr sjálfr et sama; 

ek veit einn, 

at aldri deyr: 

dómr um dauðan hvern."

It roughly translates to:

"Livestock dies,

People die

You will die;

I know of one thing

That never dies:

The judgment of a dead man's life." 

This Stanzas will most likely be part of my next tattoo.

Who shall sing me
into the death-sleep sling me
When I walk on the Path of Death
and the tracks I tread are cold, so cold

I sought the songs
I sent the songs
when the deepest well
gave me the drops so touched
of Death-fathers wager

I know it all, Odin
where you hid your eye

Who shall sing me
into the death-sleep sling me
When I walk on the Path of Death
and the tracks I tread are cold, so cold

early in the days end
still the raven knows if I fall

When you stand by the Gate of Death
And you have to tear free
I shall follow you
across the Resounding Bridge with my song

You will be free from the bonds that bind you!
You are free from the bonds that bound that you!