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The Hsaarik Elegy, Book One

by Goderlog the Song-Maiden

A Nordic saga memorializes the fallen

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First of the Companions to die was OYVIND
As the Harakk danced in tortured throes upon the shore
Cast from the deck in that calamitous moment
A simple rock spilled all that he was into the waves
His knowing had been
JORN
The skalds would call his name a curse
Unwitting bearer of death

Orkey did not hesitate to snatch away GEIR
Who had seen the reef from atop the mast
But the wind had stolen his alarum
And smashed him onto Harakk’s unyielding boards
His was the knowing
OLOGIR
He would never reclaim his honor
Only the sea now knew his worth

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Eleventh death that groaning day was VIGDIS
Her two children had starved in the last winter
Though she fought at first the water’s intrusion
At last she chose to breathe it, and died at peace
Her knowing had been
SNAED
Though it meant little now
Pulled down by weight of mail

None could be spared for next was YNGOL
Greatest smith, whose father had wept a god’s blood
Wept himself, with black metal hauling his face below
Its sharp rivulets tearing at his eyes
His father had bestowed the knowing
JOFNLAV
But now his name brought only pain
His memory haunted every joy

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