~ By
Courtesy of Others ~
Three Haikus for Idun
I
thiazi was clever:
steal the goddess,
not the apples
II
it is the goddess
who nourishes the apples
which nourish the gods
III
she sits in her tree,
in her garden, and watches
the gods play, laughing
©
Rebecca Buchanan
Image:
"There sat Idun with her beautiful hair falling over her shoulders" by
Fiona F. Hart (1914).
Þjazi, in the form of an eagle, appears in the corner. Frontispiece in:
Young, Ella Flagg and
Field, Walter Taylor. The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 3.
Public Domain.
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