The Icelandic Canadian - 01.04.1988, Side 37

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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THE VIKING SALT
Magnu of Eyjolfstodum
whose very blood
and sinews
co-mingle
with the sea,
stubbornly strains
at filamented threads
of corks
and lead
and twine
bound up in
fathoms of nets
that comb
the treasured deep.
now this
old Viking salt
dreams
of his final
moment of glory
when,
borne upon
the fiery prow
of a Viking longboat
he sails on
to Valhalla.
Kristiana Magnusson