Lögberg-Heimskringla - 25.09.1992, Blaðsíða 4

4 • Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 25. september 1992
The Blasted Badger
That Badgered Me
It was late in the month of May —
A-berry picking I went one day.
I Iooked for a patch in the grass so
green,
And found the biggest berries I had
ever seen.
And they were delicious, both luscious
and sweet.
The very bcst you could ever eat.
You could not wish for a finer treat.
The sun was already high in the sky.
The temperature was not excessively
high.
In the air you could feel a gentlc
breeze
That rustled a little the leaves on the
trees.
I chanced to look up for a moment’s
pause;
The wide expanse I looked across
Oh! what a beautiful day it was.
I was crouched in the grass and busily
picking,
Every now and again my fingers lick-
ing;
When all of a sudden some creature
did spit
In my face! I did not like it a bit.
And he bared his teeth — he was
threatening me!
What hc had in mind I did not wait to
see.
I picked myself up and away I went,
And ran so fast, soon my legs were
spent.
Rut, Oh! to havc left those berries
That, to this day, I Iament.
Translation of “SOFNAR LÓA"
When the Golden
Plover Sleeps
The golden plover falls asleep,
Ere narrow, long lights o’er the firth
subside;
Tranquility reigns o’er the ocean deep,
And a hush o’er thc forests and waters
abides.
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