Beilaimon Aman

Beilaimon Aman is the Old Tongue text of the Prophesies of the Dragon, from the Karaethon Cycle. A few paragraphs are seen in Season 3, Episode 1 of the TV series, showing the Old Tongue text for several known passages.

Text

First Paragraph

Old Tongue

Ost ronagh
Aman'dore
syndon
isain.
mamu isain
mai atha cassortde.
Aman der shar
casein, caisen shar
mishan Aman.
Qen ahfa tarmon
gai'don jabhal gaen
zhoub,
Aman tib vid shadar.
Shadar lache rieht
dyu Aman
da ca'lyet rahien ca
yugen rhiod aso
shuklot nye da
lyet.

Literal

On (the) slope (of)
Dragonmount
(They shall) born
be.
(Their) mother is
(a) maid (to another) person unwedded.
(The) Dragon from the blood
ancient, old blood
raises (the) Dragon.
When winds (of) (the) Last
Battle scour across
(the) Earth,
(the) Dragon (will) confront with (the) Shadow.
(The) Shadow (will be) brought into balance
by (the) Dragon
They shall come like (the) dawn
breaking (the) world (and)
healing it again they
come.

Canonical English

On the slopes of
Dragonmount
shall he
be born,
born of a
maiden wedded to no man.
He will be of
the ancient blood,
and raised by the old blood.
When the winds of Tarmon
Gai'don scour the
earth,
he will face the Shadow
and bring forth Light again in the world.
For he
shall come like the breaking dawn,
and shatter the world
again with his coming,
and make it anew.

Second Paragraph

Old Tongue

Dvoye rouyte ost
Aman
dvoyat sora
mordero dvoyat.
Koyn aalako dumid
veshan,
aalako dvoyn, isain
tai yalu
koyn rouyte Aman,
niende loviyaga
dvoyn Aman ni
watari ruye.

Literal

Twice marked on
(the) Dragon (shall be)
twice (for) life (and)
twice (for) death.
Once (the) heron (to) proclaim
(their) path,
(the) heron twice, to be
named true.
Once marked (the) Dragon,
(for) lost memory,
twice (the) Dragon for
(the) decision (they must) make.

Canonical English

Twice and twice
shall he be marked,
twice to live,
and twice to die.
Once the heron,
to set his path.
Twice the heron,
to name him true.
Once the Dragon,
for remembrance lost.
Twice the Dragon,
for the price he must pay.

Third Paragraph

Old Tongue

Choryat keesh
donde otyat coren
naimun do miere
avron da dumid
jenn
dumid vid nabir
gaen oghri.

Literal

Five out
ride, four return
above (the) over waves
watchers they (will) proclaim
(themself) true
proclaim with fire
across (the) sky.

Canonical English

Five ride forth,
and four return.
Above the Watchers
Over the Waves
shall he proclaim himself,
bannered
'cross the sky in fire.

Fourth Paragraph

Old Tongue

Andillar a'Tear
sind yugen, Aman
vid Callandor
yugen'dillar
yugen'dillar qen
lyet algai Aman, ob
andillar a'Tear
sind yugen.

Literal

(The) Stone of Tear
(will) never break, (until the) Dragon
with Callandor
breaks stone.
Breaks stone when
come (the) fighters of the Dragon, or
(the) Stone of Tear
(will) never break.

Canonical English

The Stone of Tear
will never fall,
till Callandor is wielded by the Dragon’s hand.
The Stone of Tear will never fall,
till the People of the Dragon come.

Fifth Paragraph

Old Tongue

Da komo manshima
cordura sa.
Sa cordura,
cordura duente
tirast manshima e
wa'hael
nak mozhlit sul
manshima.

Literal

(They) put sword
in (the) heart.
In (the) heart,
(to) hold (the) heart
pulls (the) sword and
follows,
who might hold
(the) sword?

Canonical English

Into the heart
he thrusts his sword,
into the heart,
to hold their hearts.
who draws it out
shall follow after,
What hand can grasp
that fearful blade?

Sixth Paragraph

Old Tongue

Walden'shadar
gemarisae
chinnar
aagrele
darshi
tsorovan, alaktani,
knotai.
Aan syndai, rouyte
shar vid.
Neb, sa hou'dabor
daienne manshima
ketvarnu vid ailem
zavilat atha'an
shadar
der niende lagien...
hou'dabor
hael dar...

Literal

Power (of the) Shadow
made
body
wakened
to see
storms, strife,
(and) ruin.
The Reborn one, marked
with blood.
Mist in dream
(they) dance (the) sword (and)
will chain with their
will (the) people
(of the) Shadow
from (the) lost town...
dream
lead forward...
...

Canonical English

Power of the Shadow
made
human flesh
wakened
to turmoil,
strife and ruin.
The Reborn One,
marked
and bleeding,
dances the sword
in dreams and mist,
chains the Shadowsworn to his will,
from the city,
lost and forsaken,
leads the spears to war once more,
breaks the spears and makes them see,
truth long hidden in the ancient dream.

Seventh Paragraph

Old Tongue

Da jugim atha'an
vid manshima shain,
yugin sein drosin
vid.

Literal

They (shall) slay (their) people
with (the) sword of peace,
breaking them green
with.

Canonical English

He shall slay his people
with the sword of peace,
and destroy them
with the leaf.

Eighth Paragraph

Old Tongue

Nabir syndai
Aman ca'lyet
alleni
jalat, rhiod
dhol dkust.
Atha'an jakeesh
sene miere, sag
lyet mera.
Tinto yugol, padgi
shoufa roschel
tsorovan shamad sa
beratam,
nabir'oghri tahni
zhoub.
Zeiftan zeltainu
knotai, mael jaiden
mera mordero.

Literal

Fire reborn (with the)
Dragon's coming
hills
burning, world
land dried.
(The) people forsaken
like (the) tide, time
comes without.
Wall broken, raised
(will be the) veil of separation
storms rumble in
(the) distance,
(the) fires of sky clean
(the) Earth.
Salvation will need
ruin, hope fades
without death.

Canonical English

With his coming are
the dread fires born again.
The hills
burn,
and the land turns sere.
The tides of men
run out,
and the hours dwindle.
The wall is pierced,
and the veil of parting raised.
Storms rumble
beyond the horizon,
and the fires of heaven purge
the earth.
There is no salvation without destruction,
no hope
this side of death.

Notes

• The alphabet used is the same found in the Wheel of Time Companion. However, the diphthong and aspirated consonant letter forms are not used.
• The pronoun used for the Dragon is da, indicating the Prophesies did not foretell the Dragon's gender in the show canon.

View of Belaimon Aman from the show, with upper paragraphs in focus.

View of Belaimon Aman from the show, with lower paragraphs in focus.