[Regia-NA] Three Bears Norse

[Dave Sykes]

Dear Tracie, 
    thank you for this. As a lit. teacher , I am always looking for new ways to get students to look at and listen to the patterns in writing. This is short enough to keep their attention and just mught help some of them through reading Beowulf this term.
Sincerely,
Dave Sykes/Wulfnoth Haroldson

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From: "Tracie Brown" <trbrown at uga.edu>
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> >From here: http://papersky.livejournal.com/282744.html
> 
> Three Bears Norse
> 
> An old home, a bear home, remote from human-haunts,
> Wall-girt and weather-warded, where ones wise in woodcraft
> Lick into new life, a baby, a bear cub,
> Safe among saplings, far in the forest.
> 
> Till one comes slyly, girlchild, goldilocks,
> Soft-handed, seeker of secrets, pamperling, pretty one, 
> "No!" never heard she, dancing like dandelion,
> Stealing twixt tree-boughs, spies out the bear-house.
> 
> Fast closed stands the door, bears are gone from home,
> In rushes Dandelion, door-breaker, greedy one,
> No thought spares for holy guest-law, 
> Spoiled child, undenied, heart set on plunder.
> 
> First seizes three chairs, orderly, big to small,
> Claims each and tries each, breaking the smallest.
> Next finds the oat-slop, orderly, big to small,
> Claims each and tries each, eating the smallest.
> 
> Onwards goes Dandelion, breaker of guest-law,
> Turning from oat-slop, yawning, bedwards,
> Slinks up the stairs, three beds, big to small,
> Orderly, tries each, sleeps on the smallest.
> 
> Bears, heading homewards, sleepy as sun seeks sea,
> Father foremost, bear-cub beside him, bear mother guarding rear,
> Stop, scenting surprise, coming on cautiously
> Find their door opened, blown on wild winds.
> 
> "Who?" asks bear-father, "Dared to sit in my chair?"
> "Who?" growls bear-mother, "Dared to sit in my chair?"
> "Who," howls bear cub "Dared to sit in my chair,
> Breaking it to scattered shards? I vow revenge."
> 
> "Who?" asks bear-father, "Dared to taste my oat-slop?"
> "Who?" growls bear-mother, "Dared to taste my oat slop?"
> "Who," howls bear cub "Dared to eat my oat-slop,
> Eating it all up? I vow revenge!"
> 
> Upstairs, at long last, learn of the lawbreaker, 
> Sleeping serenely, stuffed with their oat-slop,
> Wakes for an instant, seeing them, simpers, screams,
> Bear teeth, bear claws, shred her, sunder her, 
> so perish law-breakers.
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