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The lyrics are a pretty free adaptation of a Norwegian medieval ballad titled “Møya i ulveham” (TSB A 19).

*A couple of notes on the cultural background on which the song is built.
- “Wolf pelt”: in Nordic folklore, it was common belief that wearing the enchanted skin of a given animal would make the person turn into that animal, until the fur was removed. If the magic cast on the skin was a curse, then the person wearing it could hardly remove the skin of their own.
That of humans-turned-animals by wearing their pelt is an ancient myth, that goes as far back as the Viking age, where “úlfhéðinn” (“wolf-pelt”) was one of the names by which berserkers were called.
- “So I could drink my brother’s blood”: this line lets on that the protagonist’s stepmother was pregnant. This is yet another element coming from Scandinavian folklore. According to it, the only way for a werewolf to heal from his - werewolves were usually males - condition was to kill a pregnant woman and eat the fetus she carried. The original ballad clearly extended this creed to humans-turned-wolves, though they are not technically werewolves.
This second element was cut entirely from the shorter Eurovision version that Gåte will bring to Eurovision 2024:    • Eurovision 2024 🇳🇴 Norway | Gåte | Ul...  

No transcription in runes because the song is in Norwegian, so any transcription in runes just wouldn’t make sense.

Any suggestion and/or observation is warmly welcome.

Video from Skyrim, recorded by @HollywoodMagic

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