Poem: Vegvisir

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2018-12-20 16:53

Strange symbols compose you,

guide of the old norse journeymen.

With your salute you allowed

Ragnar to come to Britain's coasts

and Eirik to the Vinland's.

.-.-.

Strange symbols compose you,

Vegvísir,

guide of the norse journeymen

and maker of new worlds.

Author's note:

The following poem was published here on Spanish language on December 18th.
According to the Spanish historian Laia San José Beltrán on her Viking-related blog The Valkyrie's Vigil, the Vegvisir is the oldest aforegoing of the modern figure of the rose wind known in History. The Vikings used it as a guide and orientation figure in their expeditions to the Orkney Islands, Iceland, England, Ireland and, also, America.