In God of War (2018), you come across the prodigious and mythical Jörmungandr, residing within the Lake of Nine by Týr's Temple. He addresses Kratos and Atreus directly, but neither speaks his tongue, leaving players in the dark as to what any of it really meant.
Some fans theorised that his bellows distorted an ominous greeting, "I know you, Ghost of Sparta," while others suggested that his speech might derive from Old English, and that he was warning the pair of the coming Ragnarök.
These were valiant attempts to translate the unintelligible, but we finally have concrete answers. Last week, a copy of the God of War (2018) script sent to the WGA Awards in 2019 was briefly posted online by former council member Tian Jun Gu, finally putting to bed years of speculation.
The script reveals that the World Serpent's dialogue is complete gibberish. There's no language to translate, and the "I know you, Ghost of Sparta" that some believed Jörmungandr said, under the mask of his booming voice and clever audio trickery, was actually just, "Keh-naw--nooooo. Gooooo-thooooo seh-nooo."
According to the script, that translates to, "That axe... I recognise it from somewhere. What god...
