one of his disreputables said to him,
"Lord, teach us to prey?"'
(Luke 11:1, Authorised Viking Version)
I try not to be sacrilegious...
Norse say it this way:
"Our Father with chart in heaven,
Haloed be Earth's frame.
Viking dumb, come;
Vile, be dung in earth:
Asset is in heaven.
Give us, thirsty, oar daily spread...
And forge with us our depths,
As we forge with oar detours.
And lead us not into tempests
But deliver us from the mediaeval.
For Thine is the United Kingdom,
Though they cower:
We'll not be gory forever.
Amen.
Vikings on the brain, I was drifting off in an Anglican church service when the overly familiar recapitulation of the Lord's Prayer was mooted, and it tickled me to think 'Thy Kingdom come' sounded awfully close to 'Viking, dumb, come'... The joy of finding the whole passage, including it's scriptural introduction in Luke was bendable to my nonsensical whim was pure happenstance!
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