Authors: Gabriel J Klein
Second Night
G
ABRIEL
J K
LEIN
THE SPEAR
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For the brave
in whatever time,
in whatever conflict
Contents
Four Significant Winter Nights
The Rune Lore of Sir Saxon Pring
Extract from The Guardians Book of Lore: Names and Titles
Within the time of the
Four Significant Winter Nights
the historic twenty-nine runes are presented in the original translations from the Anglo Saxon, Icelandic and Old Norse edited by Bruce Dickens in
Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples,
Cambridge University Press, 1915.
The Henry Adams Bellows' translation from the Icelandic of
The Poetic Edda
originally published by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, and Oxford University Press, London, 1923, now as the unabridged republication of the first part including the General Introduction and the Lays of the Gods, Dover Publications, 2004, has provided the quotes from
Hovamol, The Ballad of the High One
and
Vafthruthnismol, The Ballad of Vafthruthnir.
Our grateful thanks: once again to Janette and Martha, and to Jess and Salema, for their constructive criticism of this Second of the
Four Significant Winter Nights;
to Gillian for prompting Team Gabriel J Klein to let
Second Night: The Spear
out of the stable sooner than we had anticipated; to Joan for the copy-editing; to Phil for yet more advice about workshops; as ever to Ian, for the hours of fascinated exchange by phone, email and over Janette's loaded dinner table, pondering the mysteries of astronomy and quantum theory, and still not being put off reading the result; and to Ann and Paula for giving Star, the first of the Galdramerar, a truly wonderful life â we can never thank you enough for being so good for her.
âAway from his arms in the open field,
A man should fare not a foot;
For never he knows when the need for a spear
Shall arise on the distant roadâ¦'
Hovamol
First Night:
T
HE
G
IFT
& T
HE
S
ACRIFICE
Second Night:
T
HE
S
PEAR
Third Night:
R
AGNA
R
ÃK
, T
HE
F
ATE OF THE
G
OD
Fourth Night:
T
HE
P
ROPHECY OF
S
KULD
Meane Manor House
September 23
rd
Year 148,
Quarter Day Memorandum, Autumn Equinox
Guardians,
In view of our failure to achieve visitation during Hag Night, Year 147, I must express my extreme dissatisfaction at your continuing and collective inability to persuade Caspar Wylde to discuss the details of his experience during our first, and only, successful vigil in the final hours of Year 146.