Poem of the Firebeards - Urs Tarag
From the Blue Mountains came
Dwarves with beards like flame
They worked iron and stone
In deep mines of their own
They built great halls
Very strong were their walls
And they sang many songs
Of both rights and wrongs
Firebeards they were called
By gold and jewels enthralled
Their voices powerfully bawled:
“All hail the strength of the dwarves,
And may our deaths be forestalled”!
There were warriors too
Many enemies they slew
They had axes of steel
And true fighting zeal
In scaled armour they fought
For it was glory they sought
And when the drums of war sounded
Their glimmering sight astounded
Firebeards they were called
By gold and jewels enthralled
Their voices powerfully bawled:
“All hail the strength of the dwarves,
And may our deaths be forestalled”!
At the city of their folk
Their Lord in his crimson cloak
Sat on his stone throne crowned
In a circlet most renowned
His voice echoed through the hall
Of which the pillars were real tall
And his guards were always wary
But at feasts they too were merry
Firebeards they were called
By gold and jewels enthralled
Their voices powerfully bawled:
“All hail the strength of the dwarves,
And may our deaths be forestalled”!
- Nyr
