Forgotten Ground Regained

"viaticum"

stones we raisewill be cloudstrangeemptinessof the erst woodthe words losta lot of things forebears knewnor dreamed annul
Note from the Editor:
This poem mimics Old Nose kviðuháttr meter, a variant of fornyrðislag in which odd-numbered lines have three syllables, and even-numbered lines have four. This can be a very challenging form in modern English, especially if the poet maintains the Old Norse requirement of double alliteration on the odd-numbered lines.
Part of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, Issue 8, Fall, 2025: Norse and Icelandic Forms
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