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VxPoem ID: 35725
Category:
myth_legend
Posted: April 3rd. 2009 1:53:35 PM
Views: 532 |
The Song of Thorstein the Galleon
by A Shieldmaid
Age Group: Adult
c. 9/13/2005 k. l. u. kahan
O sing the wyrd
that wove me here
bound and bondless
behind Katalak’s stone!
My brother’s banesman
lies more alone,
colder than I.
His blood--the murderer
foulest and fell--flows
from the teeth of
my dead brother’s blade;
Marks my hands;
Pays my passage
to this barrow-fate
I earned smiling.
O How could my heart
in its own bone-gaol
wile weary, woeful,
while Thorbjorn Ongul
cools, cleft from
helm-seat to tongue-root
by my fell arm
and Grettir’s own blade
as Varangians
witnessed, watchful?
A withered witchwife’s
sorest sorcery
it took to best Grettir,
Asmund’s strongest son
enduring outlawry endless
amongst the ghosts
badly banished from
kin and kindness.
But Thorbjorn boasted
false; lesing laid
the battered blade
across my palms.
Grinning I gave it
gladly back,
through his
bragging jaw-hinge!
O sing--I will ring
these stones with song
for my life has been good
and all men die
and in Miklagard is
Grettir Asmundarson
avenged at last!
Author's Notes: This was inspired by the last few pages of Grettirssaga. Read it--it's cool.
Author's Location: Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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