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.