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Author: * Londinius Romulus -
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Date: Sep 27, 2002 - 12:05
I explain that the poem "The Death of Baldur" was ( mostly) my own. Obviously the theme is a traditional and well known one from Norse Mythology - I leant on the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, and to some extent Voluspa for the story. It is an attempt at an approximation of alliterative verse - hence the caesura which is there, even if you can't see it (- every time I posted this the gaps in the middle of the lines were swallowed up.)
Several of the lines and phrases are obvious borrowings - such as
"Ilts med Asum ilts med alfum "
- it goes ill with the Gods It goes ill with the elves
which is straight out of Thrymskvida ( possibly also written by Snorri Sturluson ). Also I will admit that my first line,
"Fragile, then was Baldur - " was inspired by the first line of Thrymskvida
"Vreidr vas tha Ving - Thorr "
"Angry , then was Thor "
To this extent it is a pastiche - but still enough my own composition , I think.
Apologies for using the roman alphabet here - I can't get letters like thorn and eth on my keyboard - but you know what I mean here.
* Bows deeply to the Jarl, hoping that his failure to explain this earlier has not caused offence*
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