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    A Viking Epic, part 1 Viking !
    A Viking Epic, part 1 Viking !
    A Viking Epic, part 1 Viking !
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    A Viking Epic, part 1 Viking !

    By Andrew Weaver

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    Major new unconventional modern poetic epic of Viking warriors, Norse Gods and Magick !

    A lone Viking on a mission for the gods !

    It was foretold ...
    When lighted dragons flew the skies.
    They would come ...
    Fighting men in great ships
    Giants of men ...
    With long yellow hair and deep blue eyes.

    With warriors and wenches, Valhalla, elf, dwarf, wolf and Viking battle.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilmots
    Release dateMar 29, 2010
    ISBN9781465764829
    A Viking Epic, part 1 Viking !
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    Andrew Weaver

    Valerie Rose is a small-town author with far bigger plans. She is currently working toward a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, but will take any opportunity to write about the strange and shadowy corners of life that people tend to ignore along the way. Her work spans a wide variety of genres that only grows wider by the day.

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      A Viking Epic, part 1 Viking ! - Andrew Weaver

      Part 1 – Viking !

      Author: Andrew Weaver.

      Artistic advisor: Sonja-Marie Peacock.

      Original story owned and produced by: Andrew Weaver.

      Published by Wilmots 2010 at Smashwords

      Copyright Andrew Weaver 2010

      A Viking Epic,

      A true adventure, a lone Viking on a mission for the gods that could affect the whole future of Asgard.

      It was foretold…..

      When lighted dragons flew the skies

      They would come.....

      Fighting men in great ships

      Giants of men....

      With long yellow hair and deep blue eyes.

      The night of 7th June 793AD.

      Did the Gods say this way?

      The omens are not good, some now openly say,

      Being as they are, of Old Norse,

      Are they off course?

      Only worlds end, where fate is decided and Gods play

      Are winds, seas, lightning and storms like these, they say,

      Still, young man stands at bow of longship, in concentration, a frown,

      By name of Heidir Gustavsson, proud name, by father handed down,

      Segor, his wolf at his feet,

      With master, fighting machine complete,

      Great responsibility was his, now braced against cruel spray and waves of sea,

      That they stay on course, and must in the right place be.

      His also, sacredly handed down, father’s polished lodestone,

      The only one on this ship, all his responsibility, alone,

      Sixty warriors all freeborn, now rowing against the storm,

      Ripped and torn, square sail taken down, hopes almost forlorn.

      Though, ordinary men might give in,

      To these brave souls it would be a sin,

      For never, in their history, or under their sun,

      Had even one of these men, from any challenge or battle run!

      Then…..Through spray and driving rain, Heidir, with eye ever keen,

      Had spied land in the distance, just, as in vision seen,

      From before, when they had left their now far Norse home,

      The only ship to set sail, all alone,

      To win treasure, renown for themselves, an honorable mission,

      And, by the very Gods themselves, granted permission.

      He slumped on the deck, warm fur and wolf, now gathered round,

      Hopefully to rest, now that land had been found,

      To find a decent night’s sleep, that until land was sighted,

      Was a luxury much wanted, but always thwarted, blighted,

      And so to sleep, in that miserable cold,

      Where mind drifted back, to that day, he was proudly seven years old.

      In the great hall, from a great fire, smoke hung in the air,

      Father sat on wooden throne, waited on by maidens fair,

      A place of wonder, he had never been inside before,

      Had never seen past the guards at the heavy front door,

      His father a huge man, grizzled beard, golden goblet in one hand,

      Chain round his neck, and rings and jewels brought back from a foreign land.

      From head to toe in wolves skins against the cold, wrapped round,

      When stood, a full six and a half feet, from top of head to ground.

      His wonderment growing, as behind his father, he saw,

      Under the mounted head of a great boar,

      A golden shield, silver hilted sword, and a huge silver axe, hung on the wall,

      Boy thinking, if he could just touch them….. Perhaps, when he was more tall,

      And as his father began to talk,

      Boy came closer, still looking round in awe, slow, in walk.

      "Now you have reached the age of seven,

      I must tell you, as I agreed, of your heritage from heaven,

      You are my son! That I will not deny,

      But how you came to be, this story I promised to tell, and will try,

      For, you are not fully mortal, not fully human fleshed,

      You are of Odin’s spawn, with human enmeshed."

      A seeming impatient back hand wave,

      To the maids this was meant, and gave,

      A signal from father, for maids to leave quickly, by the back door,

      Wide eyed boy, mouth open, half crouched,

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