Forgotten Ground Regained

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson (1926-2001) was a noted science fiction and fantasy author and one of the main engines driving the revival of alliterative verse in the speculative fiction community.
The bulk of his alliterative verse appears in Dennis Wise's critical anthology of modern alliterative verse. This includes the following poems:
  • Epigraph to “Chain of Logic”
  • The Scothan Queen
  • The Longships
  • Swiftly Goes the Sword-Play (1)
  • The Strike at Trollheim
  • Food is Good for Friendship
  • Laughter from your Lips
  • Fear of Fairest
  • Swiftly Goes the Sword-Play (2): Prelude to Battle
  • Gravemound
  • Luckless is the Lad
  • Clear the Day Is, Coldly
  • Black and Cold, the Breakers
  • Late will I the Lovely
  • Skafloc Speaks to Bölverk
  • Swiftly Goes the Sword-Play (3): Tyrfing Re-Forged
  • The Kisses of Ran’s Daughters
  • Home Again the Howling
  • High Stood Our Helmets
  • The First Love
  • Route Song of the Winged Folk
  • Song of Returnings
  • Song of Farewells
  • Sea Burial
  • Route Song of the Greenland Whales
  • Starkadh’s Offering
  • Autumn
  • Veleda Speaks
  • Hardgreip’s Seduction
  • Skuli’s Shade’s Warning
  • Asmund on his Son Henrik’s Death
  • Asmund Denounces Hadding
  • The Elf-Woman’s Curse
  • King Hadding’s Lament
  • Hearken, You Who Hear Me
  • Give to Me Your Silence
Other alliterative poetry by Anderson includes "JRRT".