Word of the Goddess
Dogs’ dismay / dins the darkness
Gefnhame Geats / seek Gefion’s God-rede
Toad tongue testing / Wistan’s wariness
Wightbane woes / the warty waylayer
Eawulf enters / Gefion’s geard-pool
Goddess geas / “Geats: get geating”
Of the Battle in Gefnhame Steading
Waiting warriors / wander war-ground
Gloaming fading / night on hand
Now night-walkers / near on Nothgith
(Wandering war-men / wizz on walls)
Dead men denying / iron’s sharpness
Aetheling arm-wrestles / barrow-wights’ bones
Lytleman’s rune-fang / restores grave-rest
Sweyn the Shieldwall / steadfast strong
Nothgith’s dance is / battle‘s beauty
Stone-sword smashes / lifeless limbs
Sweon Svipdag / seeks out hall’s-sun
Lights up lich-chief / Brand bright burns he
Eawulf entreats / Thunor’s thewfulness
Lich flies skyward / earthen ending