The Battle's End (First Drottkvaett Revised)

This poem is obviously “First Drottkvaett” with the corrections made to it that I didn’t realize I had screwed up at the time. There were numerous places where the rules of drottkvaett weren’t followed correctly. I have since discovered (from reading The Elder Edda) that inconsistencies were fairly common in drottkvaett (since even THEY admitted this poetry form was a pain in the butt); however, I wanted my drottkvaett to be as accurate as possible. One thing that I hadn’t attempted up until this point was kenning (metaphorical use of words to describe something) because there were just barely enough words in the English language to write in this style to begin with, let alone the use of kenning. I did some digging on godchecker.com and found that there were enough ways to use the Norse pantheon to describe a few things, and rewrote the poem to reflect that. Additionally I cleaned up the rhyme scheme as closely as I could to the “official” drottkvaett rhyme scheme.