Ragnar Lodbrok Day

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Ragnar Lodbrok Day - March 28th


The coward thinks he’ll live forever if in battle he holds back
 Spears have spared his limbs. His conscience on the rack
 Face life’s challenges, expand your capabilities
 Courage is needed, weakness is disease

 I counsel you, swear no oath, but that what you espouse
 Hang the liar, swing him high, villainous is he the wolf-of-vows
 Truth in words, in actions and in deeds our way of life
 Deceit only has a place twisted on the knife

 Mutual is affection when we open up our hearts
 Those whose words are always fair to honor we impart
 Truth in words, in actions and in deeds our way to go
 Malice is an evil, nobility to know

 Find a friend you fully trust and wish for their good-willing
 Exchanging thoughts and gifts, go often to their dwelling
 Remain loyal to your belief and to your kith and kin
 The benevolence of friendship, the great gift to be given

 The newcomer needs fire when his knees are frozen numb
 Meat and clean linen too, who fared from whence they come
 Water too so they may wash, hand-cloths, a hearty welcome
 Then courteous silence, for their elucidation

 Early shall one rise who rules and set to work at once
 The late sleeper will lose, wealth won by temperance
 We must exercise resolve to uphold honor and the virtues
 Discipline the key to find this personal will of values

 Cattle die, kindred die, and every man is mortal
 The good name of who did well will never pass the portal
 We strive to be all we can be, honing our ability
 To do less would be dishonoring of self and world and sea

 A small hut is better, a man must master home
 His heart bleeds in the beggar who asks for every bone
 To stand, need no assistance is one of our ways
 Be strong, have integrity, our goals are what we praise

 Learn to sing them, Loddfafnir, will take you a long time
 Help to understand them, take them from this rhyme
 We must persist in actions, until all is found secure
 Our path is not for the meek, we are strong and will endure


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