This week DG Sentinel published Elf Counsel unexpected and sweet. One of five presented at the inaugural and short-lived Bard of Hawkwood Mayday eisteddfod 2015. I’d like to wrastle it into shape, at least insert a dropped ‘in’ around the middle: but I love the photo sourced by Dweebs Global. It looks like Saxon pedigree to me, but what I do know? Nuthin.
Athelney runs:
Riddle/ The Great Army / Brother Rex / Elf
Counsel / Late Home
and starts, with stage direction and intro:
For an eisteddfod,
with rhymes of flood
my bid for bard at Hawkerwood and should a verse
or two run bad, Speak Out and we’ll move on
through Athelney, that swollen plot of land,
an island, whale-humped on the Levels,
laced about with deep canals, the spot
where Alfred’s cake shop stood.
So pet your nettles & get settled
for a turn on the flood, this river-ish Riddle…
