Tag: The Elder or Poetica Edda
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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: 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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