Leea sings to Skafloc and concludes:
"...when the sea their life is reaving.
"And their women will be grieving." (p. 66)
Does this sound a bit like Dies Irae?
1 Day of wrath and doom impending.
David's word with Sibyl's blending!
Heaven and earth in ashes ending!
David's word with Sibyl's blending!
Heaven and earth in ashes ending!
7 What shall I, frail man, be pleading?
Who for me be interceding,
When the just are mercy needing?
Who for me be interceding,
When the just are mercy needing?
-copied from here.
Something resonates when lines end in "-ing"!
This also reminds us of another verse by Kipling:
What is a woman that you forsake her,
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
-copied from here.
I have quoted the two best parts of Kipling that I know and unfortunately will sail no further with Skafloc tonight.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I like Thomas of Celano's hymn, the DIES IRAE used to be the standard hymn sung at the funerals of adult Catholics. Something I should request for my own obsequies.
The quotes you took from Kipling's were also good, an apt description of how restless and warlike so many men were during the Viking Age. And I agree most of their women would have far preferred them to be content staying home.
Kipling, like Anderson, had a vast output, and you only liked best the two poems you recently quoted from his works? Did you like any of his prose stories?
Ad astra! Sean
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