Kraken for Hakon Brimill

This Gift-of-Grimnir**                                    **"poem", period

 now gives earned praise

To a fierce fighter,

 feeder-of-ravens**                                        **"warrior", period

Hakon here known,

 For whom it’s said

The battle-barks** fold                                   **"shields", period

 And break, shivered

By burly blows, 

 Bite of blood-worm**.                                 **"sword", period 

Like the Serpent-Striker**                           **"Thor", period

 In sea-cart** caught                                   ** "boat", period

The girdle of green earth**                         **Jormungandr, period

 Jormungandr,

Who bait-gallows** bit,                               **fishing pole, period

 was brought above

And eye-to-eye

 Met iron-breasted Thor,

Just so, Shield-Breaker,                       

 Hakon Seal-named**                              **Hakon's last name, "Brimill" literally means "seal" in Icelandic. 

Hooked and hauled up

 Test-of-heroes**,                                     **sea monster, original

The many-armed, mighty

  Sea-born monster

Called here Kraken,

  Carrack’s-bane**,                                   **sea monster, original

And with it wrestled, 

 Never withered

Nor severed sea-rope**                           **fishing line, original

 To spare his prey. 

Rightly We Ring-Givers**,                        ** "Rulers", period

 In first rule of Abran,

Beam of the bench-road**                       **"cross-beam of the house", period w/ original adaptation

 Of broad Atlantia,

And dear Anya,

 Destroyer of Deceit**,                            **"Ruler", period

Subduer of strife**,                                 **"Ruler", period

 Sat side-by-side

Do make thee Kraken.

  Come! Grant we Arms:

“On cloth-of-gold, a cobalt pall

 Encased by raven pair”**                           **Hakon's arms, "Or, a pall azure between in fess two ravens volant addorsed in chevron inverted sable." in verse.

At Yule-tide ewe-trade**                             **"Holiday" and "fair", original

 And Yearling Faire 

Of Cattle-carers**,                                       **Barony of Steirbach, original

 Kinsmen of Jarls.

From nineteenth of ninth month

 (By Rome’s number)**,                               **"November" (Oct - 8, Nov - 9, Dec - 10) until extra months were added by Julius Caesar

Three small of sixty-year,

 (As Society counts)**,                                  **A.S. 57

Until Ragnarok razes

 The realms of men. 

Scroll by Lady Kolfinna Valravn

Words by Lord Ishmael Stedfast Reed

Visual Exemplars: Hakon’s helmet and a Bronze Ornament, Late Iron Age style, item c4640, University of Oslo Museum of Cultural History https://www.unimus.no/portal/#/things/af8b1469-f202-441b-8229-0826d642acd3 

Alliterative verse in the style and content of the Húsdrápa by skald Ulfr Uggason. Learn more at: https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1492

Period Kennings collected from the Skaldic Project.