In the Underworld Lyrics

In The Underworld

[Pazemē]

[Pēc ilgāka laika Kurbads beidzot pārrodas mājās. Mājinieki lūdz, lai viņš pastāsta, kur bijis un ko paveicis. Kurbads pastāsta, kā nokāpis Pazemē, kā atpestījis no velniem ķēniņmeitu, kuru ķēniņš nu atdevis viņam par sievu. Par to, kā ragana čūska pārkodusi virvi pēc tam, kad viņš uzvilcis meitu virszemē, un ko viņam nācās piedzīvot, lai pašam izkļūtu laukā no Pazemes...]

Teic Kurbad, kur gan biji
Tālās zemēs ko ieraudzīji?
Sen par tevīm dziesmas dzied
Kā ar sumpurņiem, velniem esi cīnījies

Biju pazemē es
Vai kāds noticēs?
Trīs velnus sacirtu
Pārvedu ķēniņmeitu!

Teic Kurbad, pastāsti
Kā melnā pazemē tu nokāpi
Vai tad tev tur viegli gāja
Kā gan tiki tu atpakaļ mājās?

Gāja grūti gan
Bet stipri vārdi bij' man! *
Tie līdzēja, pasargāja
Pati Laima ceļu līdzināja!

Ragana Čūska virvi pušu koda
Atpakaļ kritu
Nācās meklēt, iet man ceļu uz virszemi citu

Sumpurni - mošķi
Pievarēju
Aklajam redzi
Atgūt palīdzēju
Ērgļa bērnus
No krusas glābu
Atmaksāja
Godam atmaksāja tas par darbu man tādu

Izveda ērglis virszemē mani
Pārnācu mājās
Tā man gāja, tā man pazemē klājās

[* Stiprie vārdi:]
Es piedzimu dzelža bērns
No tērauda māmuliņas
Es apģērbu dzelža svārkus
Tēraudiņa kažociņu
Sita mani, dūra mani
Kā ozola bluķeniņu
Neiesita, neiedūra
Kā tērauda gabalā

[English translation:]

[After a long time, Kurbads finally arrives home. People ask him to tell them where he had went and what he had done. Kurbads tells them about how he climbed down into the Underworld and freed the king’s daughter, who is now his wife, from the clutches of devils, how the Snake Witch bit the rope after he pulled up his new wife, and what he passed through to find his way out from the Underworld...]

Tell us, Kurbads, where have you been
In the foreign lands what you have seen?
People have long sung songs about you
Of devils and monsters you have fought

I have been in the Underworld
Can anyone believe that?
I chopped down three devils there
And saved the king's daughter

Tell us, Kurbads, say the truth
How did you descend into the Underworld?
Did it really go easy for you?
And how did you ever return back home?

It was hard down there
But I had powerful words with me *
They helped and protected me
Even Laima herself paved my way

The Snake Witch bit my rope in two
I fell back
And was forced to go and find another way out

The monstrous werewolf
I overcame
I helped a blind man
Regain his eyesight
The nestling of a great eagle
I saved from the hail
For such deeds
Eagle repaid me greatly

Great eagle carried me
Out to the surface
Then I arrived home at last
That's how it was
That's what happened to me in the Underworld

[* Powerful words:]
I was born a child of iron
A mother of steel gave me life
I put on a jacket of iron
A coat made of steel
They struck at me, stabbed at me
Like a block of oak
They couldn't hit or stab me
Like to a chunk of steel