Since Lars is gone this week, I feel the need to post something Vikinesque. Here’s part of a modern poem by Christie Ward, called “Creation,” which claims to be in the style of Viking poetry. You can read the whole thing through the link.

Of men there are many, and many the singers.

One is the song that shall rise above all:

of man sing the song then! The ideal! The spirit!

Away shall pass peoples, but never the power

of song, nor the poet who sings the soul of his people.