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Loki's Lament and Curse Part 3 By Thomas Laufey

Loki: Sigyn and Angrboda know their wyrd well Even the far seeing eye of odin Does even the all seeing eye have its faults? The curse of knowledge or forgetfulness perhaps Angrboda is born of the blood of the volva She knows well the fates and wyrd of men and immortals alike The mother of wolves, my lovely consort Sigyn my love,ever loyal and in morning Has resigned herself to the fate of her wyrd She too burns for revenge against the aesir For you have transformed one son into a wolf Only to have him kill his brother Nari Then to transform poor vali back Then to despair over his brother's entrails And to commit an agonizing death For what crime did my sons do, Lord Odin as you proclaim yourself judge Jury and executioner And for what wrongs did my children Jorgamundr, Hel, and Fenrir do They were but kids when you had them Imprisoned for Half Fashioned prophecies that were made by three old wise women, Have they not had their intuitions misinterpreted before….. So my children pay for my mistakes You aesir who claim to be fair Is this the famed fairness of the aesir The destruction of my family Driving us apart I think that hardly righteous or fair

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Date: 1/21/2020 12:46:00 PM
Absolutely stunning. You can feel the pain that is described and the mourning. A work of Art indeed
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