Champion's Oath
copyright Karen Kahan




Hear me, Northshield,                    Friends and kinsmen,
High and low                                 of Heimdall's children!
Hear me!  Witness                         these, my sworn words!


I am Wyndreth,                             Berginsdottir hight.
Well I ween the                             wise one's words
when well they spoke,                    these words they told:


"Cattle die,                                    Kinsmen die;
Each of us                                     will someday die,
One thing only                               never dies:
What is said                                   when we are gone."


Well and keen have                        I honed my tongue
on the fine stone of                        this man's honor,
and wield it wary                           to ward the name
of this man,                                   Tarrach Jarl!


By Mjollnir dire,                            by Tyr's sword-hand,
I swear it.                                      I swear it
by you, my kinsmen                      called to witness:


Harm this Prince                            while I breathe
and they will sing                           your shame
                      at Ragnarok!

Wyndreth's note... I had the indescribeable honor of being entrusted with the guarding of our prince Sir Tarrach Alfsson as his personal champion during his reign on the Stellar Throne.  This was my vow and my warning and my promise to any and all who wished him harm;  I took the responsibility damned serious.

Still do. ;)

The "Cattle die, kinsmen die"  is taken directly out of The Havamal, which you can find in The Poetic Edda.  Read it--it kicks ass!!