84/100 Erling glides in a trance

And as for thy brothers, one

Has a skull square as an ox,

And Erling glides in a trance

Through bell and psalm and secret,

A cold mouth in the godstreams.

[from ‘Rose’, The five voyages of Arnor, 3, Viking Testament, George Mackay Brown, 'Selected poems 1952-1992']

64/100 'She was uglier than I expected'

I won the girl Ragnhild

from Paul her brother, after

I beat him at draughts, three games to two.

[...] She was uglier than I expected,

[from ‘The five voyages of Arnor’, George Mackay Brown, from 'Selected Poems 1954-1992']