Warrior Poems

[hoplite14gr]

Archilochos was the "cursed" poet of antiquity. Nice one Cristy.

Ulfjarl went hunting aurochs, high up in the highlands.
Enemies and chieftains with their hosts surprised him.
Mighty Ulfjarl stood alone fighting bitter foeman,
helmets, shields and burnies splindered all arround him!
Bravely there he died, the Valkyries now attend him.
It is for us his living kin to go out and avenge him!
Stone cold our eyes will be when we refuse the weregild
cowards pay for murder!!
The ruins of their long houses and maggot ridden corpses,
will make the world remember...
the vengeance of his housecarls who loved him as a brother!

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