Comments on: Something Different

By: The Skald

The Skald — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:36:53 +0000

Thanks for the challenge – got me off my apathy and focusing a little more on the writing I enjoy most. And that is perhaps the best bit of verse in Egil’s Saga!

I’ll try to avoid the, er, umm, estrogen inducing verse from here on out Thanks Jeff!

By: The Skald

The Skald — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:07:32 +0000

@Mr. Grim

Curmudgeonly… yup, that would be me Thanks buddy. I appreciate the input… especially since you’re not a big fan of most poetry! Hope to put up a little more after that challenge from Jeff. Kind of got me entering a little more food for thought in my journal! Stay well friend, and the best to your little ones!

By: The Skald

The Skald — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:54:27 +0000

@John
Thanks John Haven’t really aimed at publishing much lately… other than in contests, and there, I seem to be a perennial “honorable mention.” I win only rarely But I sure like reading and writing the stuff.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:15:25 +0000

If we’re to believe the ancient writings, over a thousand years ago a man of notoriously bad temperament had a gift for summing up the human condition by means of the “war-god’s wine.” His verses have lasted to the present day and inspired your on-line friend to issue that particular challenge.

Without delving too deeply into my estrogen reserves and getting all slobbery, I believe Egil would have been proud of the storied lesson above and would have appreciated the impressive form in which it was rendered.

how hard to pour forth
from the mind’s root
the price that Frigg’s
progeny found,
borne of old
from the world of giants,

unflawed, which Bragi
inspired with life
on the craft
of the watcher-dwarf.
-Egil’s Saga

By: Mr. Grim

Mr. Grim — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:21:11 +0000

Bravo my curmudgeonly old friend. Bravo.

By: John

John — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:27:48 +0000

Very cool. Even better than my haiku that got published a while back