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Skempton Poems of Love and War

for SATB unaccompanied Poems of Love and War sets a sequence of nine poems from 'Viking Poetry of Love and War' by Judith Jesch. The war poems are formal and celebratory, making vivid use of figures of speech known as 'kennings', while the love poems are more direct, and sometimes playful. Skempton's imaginative settings bring these striking texts to life, artfully using changing metres to evoke the sound of spoken word.

for SATB unaccompanied
Poems of Love and War sets a sequence of nine poems from 'Viking Poetry of Love and War' by Judith Jesch. The war poems are formal and celebratory, making vivid use of figures of speech known as 'kennings', while the love poems are more direct, and sometimes playful. Skempton's imaginative settings bring these striking texts to life, artfully using changing metres to evoke the sound of spoken word.

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10<br />

Anon. (from the Poetic Edda)<br />

trans. Judith Jesch<br />

7. ‘In Gymir’s gardens’<br />

TENOR<br />

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In<br />

Gy-mir’s*<br />

gar - dens I saw a girl just for me; her<br />

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for online perusal only<br />

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girl is more mine than a - ny o - ther young man’s, from days <strong>of</strong> yore; not<br />

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one <strong>of</strong> the gods or elves want us to be to - ge - ther.<br />

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* pronounced ‘Gimir’s’, with ‘gi’ as in ‘gift’

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