The Troll Queen's Bride
It was carved with Hyrokkin, the giantess who pushed Baldur's funeral pyre afloat, and rode a great wolf chained with serpents.
There it was: her golden valkyrie blood, my black draugr blood, and earthen cries from our hands, palm prints, as if we had been buried six feet under.
"Jord, the Earth Mother, claimed us into her womb," I said breathlessly, so still was the night, except for the ghostly wind, and icicles hanging from the endless birch grove, it felt like widows were watching from the banners of the cliffs of Blood Isle. "Let us move from this sacred ground, into the berth of the white harts..."
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