We received a lot of shocks in House of the Dragon’s last episode of the first season, as well as numerous sequences that hinted at similarly unforeseen future developments.
Another scene shows the always-enigmatic Daemon Targaryen singing a mystery song to a dragon that we have never seen before in the castle’s basement. This character’s motivations are still unknown.
No one has seen him go to see this creature that we were unaware of. Therefore it is undoubtedly something that exclusively suits his interests.
Let’s start with the fact that it is Vermithor, a century-old dragon that King Jaehaerys once rode (the predecessor of Viserys ).
David J. Peterson is a talented writer who handled the Valyrian and Dothraki texts for Game of Thrones, Explained on the blog:
The Song in Valyrian
Drakari pykiros
Tīkummo jemiros
Yn lantyz bartossa
Saelot vāedis
Hen ñuhā elēnī:
Perzyssy vestretis
Se gēlȳn irūdaks
Ānogrose
Perzyro udrȳssi
Ezīmptos laehossi
Hārossa letagon
Aōt vāedan
Hae mērot gierūli:
Se hāros bartossi
Prūmȳsa sōvīli
Gevī dāerī
What does this mean?
Fire breather
Winged leader
But two heads
To a third sing
From my voice:
The fires have spoken
And the price has been paid
With blood magic
With words of flame
With clear eyes
To bind the three
To you I sing
As one we gather
And with three heads
We shall fly as we were destined
Beautifully, freely
