Bone Singer

Original painting by Susanne Iles
20 x 16 in. (50 x 41 cm) painting size
Acrylic on canvas, unframed
€1,999 (Euro)
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"Few good battle-men  bold though they be
strongest in warfare  swordmen to be feared
reckless in life-dare  ready for deathday
would stand against the blast  of that searing heat-breath
touch with their hands  the tiniest of gems
if they found waiting there  a waking moundguard
coiled in his barrow.  Beowulf exchanged
those lordly treasures  for his life’s boundary -
king and enemy  earned the end there
of their loaned earth-days."

Rebsamen, Frederick. Beowulf. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1991) 90.