The short answer was good enough for me, perhaps the most valid answer you could give :) Annnnd, I appreciate the narrative and explanation, and I understand your poems better with this backstory. Perhaps what I'm feeling critical of is that your relationship is so embedded into the poems that they feel more like a praising or orphic hymn than the Hail Mary. (I actually like them more thinking of them this way - particularly the first and the third.)
I've been thinking through my reactions to your "Hail Idun"s in light of this new info, and reframing my thoughts with Idun in the place of Frigg.
Another shot at what I see as more in line with the Hail Mary, because I believe it better explains my view than I can if I continue pontificating.
Hail Idun, Yggdrasil's Seed, Wife of verse, Mother of rejuvenation.
Blessed Idun, The Gods renewer, Bless me with bravery, That I may meet you in Valhalla.
Thank you for the conversation; I'm full of thought and inspired.
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Re: "Hail Idun" Variants, and Any Questions of Which to Ask More?
Date: 2023-02-28 02:48 am (UTC)Annnnd, I appreciate the narrative and explanation, and I understand your poems better with this backstory. Perhaps what I'm feeling critical of is that your relationship is so embedded into the poems that they feel more like a praising or orphic hymn than the Hail Mary. (I actually like them more thinking of them this way - particularly the first and the third.)
I've been thinking through my reactions to your "Hail Idun"s in light of this new info, and reframing my thoughts with Idun in the place of Frigg.
Another shot at what I see as more in line with the Hail Mary, because I believe it better explains my view than I can if I continue pontificating.
Hail Idun,
Yggdrasil's Seed,
Wife of verse,
Mother of rejuvenation.
Blessed Idun,
The Gods renewer,
Bless me with bravery,
That I may meet you in Valhalla.
Thank you for the conversation; I'm full of thought and inspired.