~ By Courtesy of Others ~
The Death of Mundilfari's Daughter
Winter winds spread venom
White rust in pale night sky
Dying comes doom dealing
Dag's Nag races southward
Skoll kills sun-dogs sleeping
Svalin's shield must yield now
Wain's wheel I bite gaining
War-frenzy more lost hope
Wolves howl bitter wailing
While the young sun dies.
©
Richard A. Edwards (also known as Richard Fergus Fitzalan)
"The Death of Mundilfari´s
Daughter" in
A Long Knight's Journey Into Day
(Olympia, WA: House Arkeep Press, c1996).
This poem is written in the Old Norse verse meter drottkvaett.