Warm and sunny, a perfect day for a mountain hike with the dogs.
Solo blot & sumbel today due to hearth members having prior commitments, work, family etc.
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Gothi & Hearth Guardian.
POETIC READING
I saw the pallid corpse of the dead Sun
Bourne through the Northern Sky:
"Balder the Beautiful is dead!'
Balder the Beautiful,
God of the Summer Sun,
Fairest of all the Gods!
Light from his forehead beamed,
Runes were upon his tongue,
As on the warrior's sword.
They laid him in his ship
with the horse and harness,
As on a funeral pyre
Odin placed a ring upon his finger
And whispered in his ear.
They launched the burning ship.
It floated far way
Over the misty sea,
Till like the Sun it seemed
Sinking beneath the waves.
Balder returned no more.
Henery Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82).