Fragments from the Vault #014: Invitation to A Winter's Tale

From the Poetic Edda of the Dragonborn

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Game: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Location: High Hrothgar, Skyrim, Tamriel

More information: High Hrothgar | Mass Effect Wiki | Fandom 

The aurora over High Hrothgar. Photo credit: FetchQuester

Come, o traveller,

Wearied wand'rer and woeful wise, 

And take rest within these 

Hallowed halls of High Hrothgar 

Where Secunda crowns 

The crest of Frostfall's hearth

To warm our winter's star-clad sky 

With luminous veils of god-spun light,

And let us call upon

Our hale-hewn hero of Akatosh

On the wind-swept sails of Kyne's 

reverie,

Unravelling our meagre thread 

Of season unending.

Riverwood. Photo credit: FetchQuester

The hero's realm of Sovngarde. Photo credit: FetchQuester

- Lucy A.

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Sources: 

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks); fandom.com

*Dedicated to the artist Netchimen's Reverie, whose constant inspiration illuminates my days.