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    Senior Member Array telkanuru's Avatar
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    Hwaht!

    New poetry thread! Same as the old one, only 2 lines of the following format (example is beowulf, spelled phonetically)

    Hwaht! We gar-dena/ in yeardagum
    Theodcyninga/ thrym yefrunon
    hu tha ahthelingas/ ellen fremedon.

    Of course, it dosn't have to be in anglo-saxon (but it can be!). The above is just to give people an idea of the feel. The '/' denotes a cesura (sp?).

    So!

    Lo! For many years/ they have not come
    Axe-bearers, kings,/ wreckers and lords of men

    meade-hall
    whale-road (ie. sea)

    And you can blame Inq. for this one
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    Meh, Saxon indeed! I thought we were doing Norse...or ersatz Norse.

    Plying the whale-road/ On wooden legs
    Sheath flame bringing/ Into the meade-hall

    Yggs shirt
    Blood falcon
    Last edited by Inquartata; 11-04-2004 at 05:03 AM.

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