[Main Blog Post] First Two "All Father" Drafts

[jprussell]

Alright, after a lot of poetic stagnation, I've pulled two drafts of an "All Father" prayer for the Heathen Rosary out of, well, somewhere (let's hope it's from the mead that made it to Asgard, and not that which was "lost" upon the way!). Even more than usual, I'd very much appreciate your thoughts on these, as I can tell neither is "there" yet, but in working out the "Hail Idun," your input was invaluable.

Oh, and I also realized I hadn't posted my "Tree Creed" which I've been using in my daily prayer for nearly a year now, so I've put that in here too.

Again, thoughts very much welcome!

Comments

Re: And a rough translation of the last Hail Idun ;-)

[jprussell]

Ah, interesting, thank you! If you'd like a quick guide to various Germanic metres adapted to Modern English (and so, presumably most of the way to adapted to modern German), I summarized what I learned from Eirik Westcoat's Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites here: https://jpowellrussell.com/#rules_of_germanish_meter

Should you ever decide to play around with it, the somewhat simplified rules are basically about number of stressed syllables and which syllables should (and shouldn't) alliterate. One caution that I reckon is even more important in German than English - note that the alliteration goes on the stressed syllable, and prefixes are usually unstressed (for example, in "unstressed", the stress goes on "stress" :)). Of course, you can play around with this is you're willing to have some poetical affectation.

Re: And a rough translation of the last Hail Idun ;-)

[k_a_nitz]

Thanks, that I may well do - though it will have to wait as today I'm planting roses and the next two days I'm bottling beer and brewing some more :-)

Re: And a rough translation of the last Hail Idun ;-)

[jprussell]

Sounds like a better use of your time all-around to me, so I certainly can't blame you!