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Tom Schecter's avatar

SKÅL!

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J. Michael Hall's avatar

Proof that the great halls, roaring hearth-fires, and mead-horns may be gone, but the poet, the Skáld, lives on. Breathtaking, my friend. Truly.

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Pablo Báez's avatar

The first piece is written with a Dróttkvætt metric.

I'm glad it worked!!

👊

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J. Michael Hall's avatar

Absolutely nailed it

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Elizabeth Lamont's avatar

A shield-biter of a poem, Pablo!!

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Zivah Avraham's avatar

Fabulous. I could hear the clang of iron sword on iron sword.

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JLG Noga's avatar

the kind of poem you strip naked to howl at the moon, channeling the wolf or the bear, before rushing towards valhalla to

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M.P. Fitzgerald's avatar

This is better than 70% of the fantasy that fetishizes these myths and I want that on RECORD.

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Pablo Báez's avatar

Love that!!!

I thought for a minute to deviate from the format and dip a bit into full on story but I behaved lol

Gotta practice control (sometimes)

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Edward.Marlo.Ruiz's avatar

That good shit pumped straight into the blood stream. Fucking dopeeeee

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BirthRateCrisis's avatar

Really enjoyed this poem. Thank you.

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Keith Long's avatar

Wowowowow. That carrion/carrying line punched me in the foot. Great stuff.

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