By: Hugin Where, in the day, the sand lies gold, At night there dwells a fear untold. When the clock strikes the midnight hour From the bell in St Mary’s tower, Fear the beach where the moonlight glows For quite what lies there, no one knows. By the lantern’s flickering light, I cannot see…
Category: Archive
Welcome to The Shiver Vaults: archived posts, from 2009 to 2018, still published on the ShiverWriggle website. The vast majority of archived posts are no longer published on the ShiverWriggle website. If you’re looking for something specific that you can’t find here, get in touch.
#3 Saga of King Hrolf Kraki: Part Three
By: Hugin It’s interesting to see the contempt with which many of the great Norse warriors viewed the Berserkers. This final section of The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki begins with Bodvar criticising Hrolf for becoming a coward when dealing with his Berserkers. Bodvar and Hott agreed that the Berserkers should be put in their place…
Prayer of a Captured Orkney Chieftain
By: Hugin That I should have half as much courage As the martyred saint whose bones now rest In the cathedral of cold red stone, Then I should feel to have done my best In the face of doom so imminent. That courage would aid my company, And then they should all take heart…
How quickly memories fade
By: Patrick How quickly memories fade: Neurons fired, then decayed. Once I looked into your eyes – They darted and dazzled Like fireflies. Now we’ve become strangers. Memories from a different life: A very brief past. Our weakness exposed When once we laughed. Ripped at the seam, Shattered remnants of a dream And everything that…
Looking into a broken reflection
By: Hugin Looking into a broken reflection and shedding a tear that seemed to fall forever but never land. Below, tumbling waves heralded the water that stretched on forever. Water had brought him to her and had snatched him away with as little warning. Smeared painfully across her life, he was gone now but…
Time; Our Friend
By: Hugin Five hours ago I had a ‘blast from the past’ – a really valuable experience. It was finding a story I had written when I was ten, not so juvenile as to be laughable, but with that overriding air of innocence that unfortunately cannot be preserved for day-to-day adult living. Human kind…
#2 Saga of King Hrolf Kraki: Part Two
By: Hugin This week the section of The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki is split into two sections. Once again, Hrolf plays a relatively minor part, the protagonist of the first section being Svipdag and the second being Bodvar. Svipdag was the son of a wealthy farmer, Svip, and his brothers were called Beygad…
An Informative Trip
By: Charlie Charles Anyone that spends time around people will watch what those other people do, but how often do you actually notice the people? I have been guilty of looking at overweight, tall, ugly, frilly or bright colour wearing individuals and sniggering inwardly at my far superior choice of clothes or diet. However,…
#1 Saga of King Hrolf Kraki: Part One
By: Hugin Notable ancestry seems to have been obligatory for Norse heroes. The first time that I read The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, I was surprised that the first chapter introduces no one called Hrolf. Instead, it tells of how a good king, Halfdan, was murdered in cold blood by his brother, Frodi….
Working Life #2
By: Patrick It had been another long week, another week when Jon had spent his time dealing with the suffering and grief of his traumatised clients with a professionalism that was beginning to trouble him. Something had come between him and them of late – a barrier that allowed their stories, entreaties and breakdowns…