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Hadding
(© Micheala Macha)

A dear friend´s death in distant lands
offered the omen to face my own;
words rise half-drowned from drowsy oblivion:
No hand but my own would bring my end.

No arm of woman lay ever as lightly
around my neck as now the noose
nor did my kinfolk greet me as keenly
as high now the ravens call overhead.

The boughs above me bend in the breeze;
set are my sails but not for the swan´s path.
A branch of ash will be my oar,
parting soon the wine-red sea.

The vessel is rushing, taut is the rope;
my life-boat held by Hangatyr´s hands.

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