Unlooked  test

Once hunted hard

In youthful pride

Death beckons

Hel calls

Raven’s hunger

Not mine the life

That will be spilled

Nor kinswoman

Family mine

I must support

I must not risk;

Thunder sounding
Warrior’s call

Burning blood

Heavy heart

One last time

To battle go

Not before me

Woman or child

Shall raven’s feast

Not while living
Will my eyes

Hold such a sight

Warrior first

A name I leave

Still unstained

Death embraced
Woden’s gift

One final dance

No thought of living

No thought of loss

One last victory

Valhalla’s hall

Peace of the mound

I care not which

The gift of life

For woman and child

My blood to buy

Brightest name

And empty bed

My wife I leave

Honour won

On bloodied field

Scant comfort children

Foemen felled
Ere breath my last

In laughing victory

Old man’s folly

Proud man’s wyrd

Honour’s price