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Saturday, April 9, 2011

A-Z: Hag

A hag sits eastward in Ironwood and rears Fenri's children; one of them all, in troll's shape, shall be the sun's destroyer. He shall feed on the lives of death-doomed men; with red blood he shall redden the seat of the Gods. The sunshine shall grow black, all winds will be unfriendly in the after-summers.... I see further in the future the great Ragnarök of the Gods of Victory.... Heimdal blows loudly, the horn is on high; Yggdrasil's ash trembles as it stands, the old tree groans.

–– Lucy Winifred Faraday, The Edda: The Divine Mythology of the North

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2 comments:

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  2. Medieval madness award, things can only get better.

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