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here or here (mostly the differences boils down to spellings and transliterations). And that translation you have there thal is probably the best that can be done into modern day English.
If I were to do this verbatim it would go something like
Hail Day.
Hail Day's sons
Hail Night and Night's daughter.
Let your eyes fall upon us
with kindness
and grant victory to those who sit here
Hail Asir
Hail Asynjir
Hail fertile (alt. verdant, lush or similar) field.
Word and wit
give to us two
and healing hands as long as we live.
(Some liberty has been taken so as not to turn the text into total gibberish.)
So at least for the two verses you give it's fairly accurate, no matter how it sounds.
Warning:The above post may contain traces of sarcasm.
An apostrophe is the difference between a business that knows its shit, and a business that knows it's shit.
"Why is every object we don't understand always called a thing?" (McCoy. Star Trek: The Moive Picture)
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