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You can sing, dance or you can fight.

And that, my dear lady, is how you filk a song. :O)

Hope this answered your question!
Lady Eleanor Cleavely
Wannabe bard
Barony of Elfsea
--- Miss Pict <lady_pict2 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> What pray tell is a filk song? (look of
> innocence!!):)
> >
> >
> >Here's a filk song a few of us from Seawinds /
> Ansteorra wrote on the way
> >home from  Estrella. Grab an alkaseltzer & enjoy.
> >Wayland
> >
> >Wheelman's Song
> >by Helgar, Gunnar, Sabine & Wayland
> >filked from "Thor's Son" (possibly by Ragnar?)
> >
> >Seawinds war-wagon on the western road,
> >Doom on our western foe.
> >And this is the song the wheelman sings...
> >As to Estrella War we go.
> >
> >I followed the sunset to the West
> >From Seawinds to the Citadel.
> >Leg Aus sent its very best
> >To fight Estrella's dusty hell.
> >
> >With Northern Outland allies joined
> >Our ranks then swelled with warriors true.
> >Malgwyn paid with silver coin
> >The Legion paid with salt and food.
> >
> >Thirteen scouts went to the field
> >To count the desert dwelling foe,
> >And when they all refused to yield,
> >Unto Valhalla they did go.
> >
> >Our host arrived, surveyed the scene
> >Of blood and sand all mixed with gore.
> >We saw we were outnumbered then
> >By something like eleven score.   (Pretty good
> counting for a  Norseman)
> >
> >Artemesian allies by our side,
> >They charged the foeman with no fear,
> >But sadly to a man they died
> >Skewered on Caidian spears.
> >
> >Aetenveldter's ranks of might
> >Then threw themselves upon our shields.
> >Orkneys with their armor bright
> >Sought to drive us from these fields.
> >
> >The Huns they fought with all their might
> >To hold our flank and stem the tide.
> >But Freya saw a bloody sight
> >As Aeten foemen crushed our side.
> >
> >Calantiri warriors brave and strong
> >Fought with skill and bloody hunger,
> >But wound up singing their own death song
> >So badly were we all outnumbered.
> >
> >As if encircled by the tide
> >The sable star Crown fought brave and true.
> >Ansteorran heroes by his side
> >Many a foeman they then slew.
> >
> >Their numbers were great and ours much less,
> >Though we sent scores to a bloody hell.
> >Our lines were broke in a final press
> >And in the end our banners fell.
> >
> >"Rise up!" the valkyrie maidens did cry.
> >"We saw how valiant you warriors did fall"
> >"Climb up on our mounts and away we will fly"
> >"Come with us now to Odin's hall"
> >
> >Seawinds war-wagon on the sunset road,
> >DEATH to our western foes.
> >And this is the song the wheelman sings,
> >
> >As to Estrella War we go.
> >
> >
> >
> >(now, you should really take those alkaselters I
> mentioned)
> >Sorry, Seawinds!!!
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The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.
- - - Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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