The Troll Queen's Bride
The Golden Twins were hunting the white hart, dashing
through Vanaheim aback war sow and hog, spilling ruby
blood of Ingvi’s sacred antlered stags, Freida saw a
spiderweb woven of gold, and as Ingvi roasted the hart
she strayed in her feather cloak and moonlight dress to
a dwarven hollow, where a soot-rough duergar smithed a
beautiful bracelet shaped like the sun, Freida swelled
with gold-lust, for Gullveig is her witch-name, and the
metal of morning and dawn is her domain. Freida spoke
words of want to the blackened dwarf: “Lay with me this
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