24: Vicissitudes
ch: vedis feigrun || wc: 71
two þulur, inspired by the 'interchange and alternation' definition. i used an 8/10/8 meter for ease of working in english.
Many names there are for flame:
Hearth, campfire, candlelight, embers,
purifier, meat-eater, warmth-giver,
pyre, kindling, smoke-beast, and huntsman.
Smoke, ardor, ward-breaker, beacon,
lifegiver, pine-tender, leaping one, light,
flare, wildfire, vein-blaze, and cinder.
Many names there are for ice:
Freeze, calf-herd, hastener, traitor,
pitiless one, mountain-wall, jagged one,
hail, mirror, blue-eyed, and glacier.
Rime, hoarfrost, river-ford, growler,
shining one, water-stone, drifting one, heart,
floe, spring thaw, respite, and blizzard.
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