Ho-ya, ho-ya, ho-ya, ho-ya
Ho-ya-ya, ho-ya-ya
Ho-ya-ya, ho-ya-ya
Ho-ya-ya, ho-ya-ya, ho-ya-ya

Ice grips the fjord in silence
Blue still water, white and still
Oars bite slow through frozen morning
Frost climbs iron and will

No fire warms the open sea
No mercy in the gale
Only three carved names before me
Cut deep into the keel

Ho-ya-ya, ho-ya-ya, ho-ya-ya
Odin, give me wisdom
Tyr, give me justice
Thor, give me strength in storm
So that I may still stand

Three names carved in oak and bone
Three gods bound to sea and foam
Wisdom when the path is thin
Justice when the blood runs thin

Strength when iron splits the shield
Their names carved into my keel
Ho-ya-ya, ho-ya-ya, ho-ya-ya, ho-ya-ya
Odin, for the mind in darkness
When doubt creeps cold and slow

Let my eye see through the storm
Where weaker men won't go
Tyr for oath and measured hand
When right must cut through wrong
Let my blade fall clean and true

Let honor keep it strong
Thor for thunder in my arm
When shields begin to break
Let my strength outlast the gale

For my kin's and children's fate
Odin, give me wisdom
Tyr, give me justice
Thor, give me strength in storm

So that I may still stand
Three names carved in oak and bone
Three gods bound to sea and foam
Wisdom when the path is thin
Justice when the blood runs thin

Strength when iron splits the shield
Their names carved into my keel
Ho-ya-ya, ho-ya-ya, ho-ya-ya
If the fjord swallows my body
If frost takes breath from me

Let it be said I did not bend
I held the line at sea
Not for gold nor plunder
Not for crown nor throne
But for hard-fired smoke behind me

And children not yet grown
Three names carved in oak and bone
Three gods bound to sea and foam

Wisdom guide my sight within
Justice steady my hand in sin
Strength until the storm is still
Their names carved into my keel
Carved into my keel