Looking out forward over the prow of our long ship,
pulling our oars and listening to the foam;
helmets and sheepskins salt-damp in the sea-mist:
We're going home
Aslak of Langadale, Einar Thorgeirsson,
Olaf the White and Sigurd the Powerful
Looking for constellations above the horizon,
West wind cutting sharper than our blades;
smiling forever into an endless sunrise,
we're flying on the waves
Thorfin Karlsefny, Aud the Deep-Minded,
Snorri Thorbrandsson, Thorstein the Black
Out of dark Vinland, with grey waves racing before us -
We want no rest
Back to the homeland, Iceland, sleeping in winter -
back from the West
Five years we roam;
now we're going home