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The Wanderer and The Warden
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Chronicle Summary
(( A freestyle poet's battle inspired by ancient folklore traditions... ))
((Our characters are performing this as a ceremonial tribute to our history, each of us pretending to be an ancestor of our people. Hund speaks for Dunland and Sya for Rohan.))
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(( Inspired in part by certain folklore and ancient poems, this battle of words is intended as a spontaneous meeting of poets from legend: one arriving in a foreign land as a formidable stranger, and the other rising to match the challenge of an intruder. Both proclaim their own power of mystery and force, and the exchange of verses is a unique greeting of "Beware I have chosen to cross into your land", and "Beware this land is fiercely guarded." Voice and words have carried uncommon power in Middle Earth, seen in its most terrible form in The Voice of Saruman. In the spirit of this idea, and the true battle of voices, this exchange will be a ceremonial creation between two poets of Dunland / Rohan, Sya and Hund. )) The Wanderer and the Warden: Part 1 The Wanderer and the Warden: Part 2 The Wanderer and the Warden: Part 3 The Wanderer and the Warden: Part 4
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Inspiration (Hund): "Cad Goddeu" by Taliesin
http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/t08.html
Inspiration (Sya): Excerpt from "The Song of Amergin and Cessair"
Amergin: I plant my foot on this land. For I am Amergin Son of Mil, Son of the People of the Sea . . .
Cessair: Here I stand . . . Keeper of the house of Sidh . . .
I am Cessair . . . Daughter of Darkness . . .
I am the flash of sun on water. I am the clash of battle swords.
I am the teeth in the sea-shark’s mouth. I am the blood of wild beasts.
I am the fire in the witch’s hearth. I am the evening sky ablaze—
The red of serpents’ tongues, The black of deepest night.
I am a mare that knows no reins.
Amergin: I am the roar of the sea. I am a bull of seven fights.
I am a hawk on a cliff. I rove the hills, a ravening boar.
I am lightning that blasts the trees. I am the point of weapons.
I am thunder on the mountains. I am a God that fashions fire for a head.
I am a dragon that eats the sky.
Cessair: I thread the stars across the sky. I am the kiss of lovers’ lips.
I am the mortar and the stone. I am the song of my homeland. . .
Amergin and Cessair: A Battle of Poetic Incantation by Michael Meade and Erica Helm Meade, based on the historical text The Song of Amergin
art: Raphael Lacoste
