By THLaird Colyne Stewart, June As 50 (2015)
The rotter of bodies
Ravished my friend
But she fought
Like no other foe
Warrior stout
Weary but brave
Baldur’s best
Eir has well blessed
Writen as a kviðuhátr
for Raven Haraldson, who beat cancer.
Kviðuhátr was an
8-line alliterative verse form, resembling fornyrðislag except that its lines
alternated between three and four syllables. Alternatively, other sources say
it is line 3, 5 and 7 that are 3 syllables with the rest being four. The alliteration
can also carry over from one line to the next (so a word in line 1 alliterates
with a word in line 2, a word in line 3 with line 4, and so on).
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