Lost Legends Long Before the Vedas and the Iliad
Go far enough in time and all becomes
Strict mists and stone. Fire circles heard the tales
So long forgotten now that tribal drums
Are recent evolutions, compared. Trails
Do not exist to take us back to spells
And legends forebears chanted long before
King Arthur was conceived. A shaman’s bells
Might be quite modern too compared to lore
We cannot now imagine. Yet the flow
Of myths at some fogged moment turned to men,
Away from Gods, to men’s and women’s glow
Set off by Grendel’s slime enroaching from the fen.
..That saga, too, is far too young. We hear
….It far more fiercely than a Stone Age fear.
