The Hsaarik Elegy, Book Three

The Hsaarik Elegy

by Goderlog the Song-Maiden

Book Three

Fifty-first to fall amidst the sword-din was IDUNN

The endless clangour breaking down her resolve

Until it was bloody kindness to crush her throat

Granting peace to her wracked and sobbing form

Her knowing ought to be

HAAFIN

Her name true not even once

Forgotten where she fell

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Fifty-fourth, one-hundredth since Atmora, was KYNMUD

She spoke with the tongue of the goddess herself

She screamed her foe to pieces until, in a single moment

She finally came apart, tendon by tendon

Her knowing is still spoken as

OTTRA

First of her kind upon Mereth

Five hundred summers undone

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Last death upon the first day of battle was TRYGVE

Though fighting had ceased none heard his cries

He nursed the spilling wound that opened up his gut

As though it were the babe he left behind at Jylkurfyk

His knowing she would learn as

URDLAV

And truly none had seen this

All had thought him blessed

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