Category: Völuspá
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10 June: Found in Ragnarök
Poetic Form: Tanka 5.7.5.7.7 – st. 42-46 pg 139 What tells of my fate.How every world of my Nineis salt and secret.Say what of Mist-Hel. She dwells,and lives cold with Dread-Winter. She’s of Fenrir-Wolfand Jörmungandr the Serpent.Misty worlds of dead.Daughter of Hel and Loki.Threatening, harsh, and cruel. This is the start of new series of…
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4 June: Found In Ragnarök
The Likes of Heaven Hence comes Wind overwaves giant as never seenlikes from heaven. Hence comes an eagle,its wings long string runes.He is called Corpse-Swallower. Dweller of this earth,they say He comes on Windwith tidings of the Three Norn*. He owns the Hundreds,but first, more potent a spell, Æsir’s kin must sit again. *The Norn are…
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27 May: Quadrille #202
View From Behind Closed Eyes sometimesI close my eyesand pretend that noonis midnight,and that the stars are shiningbecause “Hati-the-Wolf” neverswallowed the moonwhich caused stars to disappear, and becausewhen I close my eyeseverything is darkness,and my memory sees perfectly again. Written for dVerse Poets Poetic form: Quadrille, #202 “Darkness”. Hati the wolf is from The Elder of…
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27 May: Found in Ragnarök
Poetic form: Tanka (5.7.5.7.7) st. 31-37/pg 136-7 This one is WinterBorne for the measure of years.First borne was SummerTo one called Sweet-Water she sprang,But Wind-Cold raced on fierce and dread. Untold Winters weave.He was son of Sorrow’s-Seed.Eldest of those daysFrom him, the whole of our kin,Those winters laid cradles bare. This is a series of…
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25 May: Found Poetry of Ragnarök
If Thou Hast the Wit Heaven laid frost cold. Old bones were these mountains made for the sea bellows. and when the sky darkens with mahogany -Fates claim the moon’s realm. They round the day rolling on, measuring the years of man. and storm snd smoke are swirling reign -Dark is drawn as dew drops.Dales…
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8 December: 08 Völuspá
Ragnarök Begins: The Twilight of Gods The seeress’s spell filled Hall of Hunnishwhere billowing smoke cut thick the air, andall did stare, Vala pointing to where he stood. “Loathed of all, who is this man,” she said,“that led me on this course. Snow bedeckedand rain beaten. Long have I been dead,only to then be sheltered…
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1 December: 07 Völuspá
The Laying of Baldr The 1st DreamsOppressiveAs mighty godsCalamity forebode not willMighty this futureof seers questioned Be thee resolvedPowersOther and griefCompacts and vowsAll oaths sworn The 2nd HowlingLong SongsMagic siredAnd bayedSlaughter ChantsTo magicSpoke shePronouncing spellsFire Bereaves flame Baldr: son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg. His death is the harbinger of RagnarökSvalin(n) in Old Norse translates as “cold” or “chill”…
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24 November: 06 Völuspá
Völuspá: Svalin He carries a shield,calls it Svalin. It stands before sun, more gloriousthan cold iron. Deity of sea and rock,heaven, hawks and Hel dogs. Burnt from the place it fell,weary weight of the sun. Awake. Its face is triumphant andby its one name it’s always been known. By its one purpose, ancientsoul destroyer. It…
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17 November: 05 Völuspá
Yggdrasil’s Ash For eight days seers of sun,and equal nights by frost,Young Odin dwelt with venom dropsof a serpent’s back. Then his flesh set upon by fire,one lit to right,one to left.No food. No water was he offered. And when a hart saw the harm been doneit bit into a branch of the Yggdrasil Ash,and…
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10 November: 04 Völuspá
Mótsognir I, drawn of dread juices of flesh,born from Ymir’s breast and bone,and dreaded buzz of wings, I, dreaded spawn of blue bottles.Drawn from a maggot’s coddle.I, born under a constellationof blustery red … by the gods, I am Mótsognir who drank from the spumeand foam of courage and might.Who was the first born, lord…
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