[Bards] A Tale Re-Told (WAS Three Bears Norse)

[Mike C. Baker]

Forgive o my brothers -- and sisters -- in bardcraft,
Who may have seen following, words from the far lands.
Whoever has not, give heed to the telling:
How law-breaker suffers, who heeds not the guest-law.

This came without telling whose hand shaped the words first
Or captured the spirit of a tale from old knowledge
Raise horn or flagon and give thanks to the Shaper
Long may this effort be shared among man-things!

<VBEG>

(And if Mikal the Ram, teacher and skald-tongued, 
In his days has not seen this, 
Forward I tell you!  He'll thank you, I'll guess.)

Adieu, Amra / ttfn - Mike / Pax ... Kihe (Mike C. Baker)
SCA: al-Sayyid Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra, F.O.B, OSCA
"Other": Reverend Kihe Blackeagle PULC (the DreamSinger Bard)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org 
> [mailto:sca-cooks-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of 
> Patrick Levesque
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:41 PM
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] FW: Three Bears Norse
> Well, it does have the obligatory food content...
> :-)
> Petru
> 
> ------ Forwarded Message
> > Three Bears Norse
> > 
> > An old home, a bear home, remote from human-haunts, Wall-girt and 
> > weather-warded, where ones wise in woodcraft Lick into new life, a 
> > baby, a bear cub, Safe among saplings, far in the forest.
> > 
> > Till one comes slyly, girlchild, goldilocks, Soft-handed, seeker of 
> > secrets, pamperling, pretty one, "No!" never heard she, 
> dancing like 
> > dandelion, Stealing twixt tree-boughs, spies out the bear-house.
> > 
> > Fast closed stands the door, bears are gone from home, In rushes 
> > Dandelion, door-breaker, greedy one, No thought spares for holy 
> > guest-law, Spoiled child, undenied, heart set on plunder.
> > 
> > First seizes three chairs, orderly, big to small, Claims each and 
> > tries each, breaking the smallest.
> > Next finds the oat-slop, orderly, big to small, Claims each 
> and tries 
> > each, eating the smallest.
> > 
> > Onwards goes Dandelion, breaker of guest-law, Turning from 
> oat-slop, 
> > yawning, bedwards, Slinks up the stairs, three beds, big to small, 
> > Orderly, tries each, sleeps on the smallest.
> > 
> > Bears, heading homewards, sleepy as sun seeks sea, Father foremost, 
> > bear-cub beside him, bear mother guarding rear, Stop, scenting 
> > surprise, coming on cautiously Find their door opened, 
> blown on wild 
> > winds.
> > 
> > "Who?" asks bear-father, "Dared to sit in my chair?"
> > "Who?" growls bear-mother, "Dared to sit in my chair?"
> > "Who," howls bear cub "Dared to sit in my chair, Breaking it to 
> > scattered shards? I vow revenge."
> > 
> > "Who?" asks bear-father, "Dared to taste my oat-slop?"
> > "Who?" growls bear-mother, "Dared to taste my oat slop?"
> > "Who," howls bear cub "Dared to eat my oat-slop, Eating it 
> all up? I 
> > vow revenge!"
> > 
> > Upstairs, at long last, learn of the lawbreaker, Sleeping serenely, 
> > stuffed with their oat-slop, Wakes for an instant, seeing them, 
> > simpers, screams, Bear teeth, bear claws, shred her, sunder her, so 
> > perish law-breakers.
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