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The Odal-lands From the garth most holy By high walls ringed, Fended from foes He has Midgarth set From ilk of fire And taught men to hold By a burning bourne And in howe-dwellings To whom then the living Odhinn opens all ways To Erulians But all others Must have strength to thrive Or die outcasts Of Allfather And His elder wisdom In the blood it burns, Is found also Or by the bold, at night, Each in kind To the dead And Asgarth But few know what odal |
the Old Man oversees hedged by fire, warded by rivers, 'till fall of doom. amid seas that sunder and ice-giant's kin; their homesteads well around the boundaries, to house their dead are outlanders. to His own kinder, and Einherrar, in outer dark beyond the threshold, in ormete wastes. our souls are offspring, is our birthright; blossoming within; in the fetch of the clan, on a barrow sitting. will odal earn: are dealt Midgarth, to Aethelings; to Odhinn will come. |
10-21 --- 10-27-98
