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Krákumál

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })"Krákumál" is an Old Norse poem preserved in several Icelandic manuscripts with minor differences. It is thought to have been originally composed around the middle of the 12th century in Orkney or Scotland."Krákumál" purports to be the last words of the legendary Viking king Ragnar Lothbrok, who, as the story goes, was, after an illustrious career of battle and conquest, captured by King Aelle of Northumbria and thrown into a pit of serpents to die. As Ragnar waits for death, he recalls the battles and feats of strength that earned him fame. He concludes that he does not need to worry about dying, because he has led a glorious life, and will be feasted in Odin's hall in the afterlife.The title translates to "Words of the Raven" (or: the Crow), though it is not entirely clear why it is named thus; which is part of the reason it is much better known in English as the "The Death-Song of Ragnar Lothbrok". "Krákumál" is the earlierst evidence of a tale of Ragnar Lothbrok, which was apparently still somewhat different from the prose versions that have come down to us in writing (in The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok and book 9 of Gesta Danorum), as the poem mentions a number of names of places and persons that do not appear in the later works.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })"Krákumál" was first printed in 1635 in a Latin translation, and first translated to English in 1758. Since then, it had considerable influence on the formation of the stereotypical image of the Viking warrior in modern culture.You can read "Krákumál" online in Old Norse and in English translations by Thomas Percy (1763), or you may check out samples from the translations of James Johnstone (1782), Margaret Schlauch (1930) and Ben Waggoner (2009).
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 Worthy Opponent: In stanza #16, in a description of a battle at Waterford in Ireland, Ragnar says that a certain King Marstan, "lord of Ireland", "never suffered the she-wolf to starve, nor the eagle" (i.e. he killed many). There is no more information on who Marstan is, but context seems to suggest that Ragnar fought against him, and that Ragnar is praising the valor of his opponent.
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 Blood Is Squicker in Water: The image of blood mixing with water is evoked repeatedly. In stanza #3 "wound-sweat [i.e., blood] swelled the ocean", stanza #4 tells a "river was all reddened / with hot running wound-splash", and stanza #19 relates that "Irish blood was blended / with brine, at the slaughter."
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 Royal "We": Ragnar speaks of himself in plural. For example, the first line of every stanza: "We struck with our swords!" really means that Ragnar did so.
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 Die Laughing: Ragnar drives home that he has no need to feel sorry for his death, because he has lived a glorious life, and will be feasted in Odin's hall in the afterlife. In the very last line, he tops his death-defiance off by asserting that he will die laughing.
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 Epic Catalogue: The first part of the poem (up to stanza #21) is a list of the noteworthy deeds of Ragnar's life, beginning with the slaying of a dragon, and recalling some 20 battles and their locations, including the famous kings and chiefs who fell in these battles.
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 Snake Pit: Ragnar speaks the poem as he is awaiting his death in a snake pit; hence the remarks that "so many serpents / stab me with their poison" and that "Goinn [= a serpent] scathes me sorely, / settles in my heart's hall".
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 Blood Is Squicker in Water / int_adc5921
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