Tuesday, June 18, 2013



                                     Going Viking



          Vikings in Byzantium
          swaggering about islands
          one eye on the Empress
          another on Norway

          From Novgorod in Ruskis
          to Constantinople
          sailing down rivers
          in the dim   dark days

         While colleges in Ireland
         were training skalds
         some voyaging to Iceland
         gateway to Vinland

         thence went eagles
         ravens and crows
         wolves ran before them
         yipping of hammer blows

         Lost in the North
         wandering west
         each man a chieftain
         going Viking...

         Ravens on whalebone
         eagles on ivory
         Russians for neighbors
         just like in old days

         Goose Bay    Labrador
         Nome    Alaska
         pilots in stetsons
         mending the fence

         Going Viking...!


                                 © Dick Russell, 2013
              
         http://www.spirasolaris.ca/sbb4g1bv.html
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